Aaron J Brody

University of Haifa ; Berkeley, Pacific School of Religion
1999 Grant Co-Recipient with E. Marcus and A. Raban
1997 Grant Recipient
A. Brody

The "Sea" and "Harbor" Gates of Akko: Publication of Areas F and P, Israel

1999 award
 

Bronze and Iron Age Material from Tel Akko, Areas A, AB, and H

1997 award w/ Michal Artzy. PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage.
 

Aaron Brody is the Robert and Kathryn Riddell Professor of Bible and Archaeology and Director of the Badè Museum at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He has excavated primarily at harbor sites in Israel, including Tel Nami, Ashkelon, Dor, and Tel Akko; and participated in projects in the Negev and Akko Plain and with the Ohlone-Muwekma at sites in northern California.  He has held fellowships at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and the American Center for Overseas Research in Amman. Recent publications have focused on household religion, metallurgy, and interregional trade at Tell en- Naṣbeh, from holdings in the Badè and Rockefeller Museums.  He is a co-editor of the volume, No Place Like Home: Ancient Near Eastern Houses and Households (Archaeopress 2022).  Other recent publications include “The Judahite Economy in First Temple Times: Remodeling the House of David–A Case Study from Tell en-Naṣbeh,” pp. 251-62 in The Ancient Israelite World, eds. Kyle Keimer and George Pierce (Routledge Press 2023); “Maritime Viewscapes and the Material Religion of Levantine Seafarers,” pp. 399-412 in Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East, eds. N. Laneri and S.R. Steadman (Bloomsbury Academic 2023); and co-authored with Michal Artzy, Tel Akko Area H: From the Middle Bronze Age to the Crusader Period, vol. 10, Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant (Brill 2023) based on research funded by the White-Levy Program.  New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia, edited by Solange Ashby and Aaron Brody will be published in Gorgias Press’ Ancient Near East series in 2024.