David Ilan

Tel Dan: The Iron Age II Inner Town Project

Granted 2011

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Tel 'Aroer: The Iron Age II Caravan Town and the Hellenistic-Early Roman Settlement

Published 2011 (granted 2004).

View the publication webpage:
Tel 'Aroer: The Iron Age II Caravan Town and the Hellenistic-Early Roman Settlement

Dr. David Ilan is The Director Emeritus of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College’s Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem. A native of Los Angeles, he has lived in Israel since 1976. He completed his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Ilan has excavated at Tel Arad with Ruth Amiran, Tel Dan with Avraham Biran, and at Tel Megiddo with Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin, and Baruch Halpern. 

Prior to joining Hebrew Union College, he had a three-year stint as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Archaeology. Dr. Ilan was also the Zemsky Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2006-7. 

His publications deal with a wide range of subjects: the Middle Bronze Age of the southern Levant, the archaeology of death, northern Israel in the early Iron Age, community and archaeology, and the problem of antiquities plunder and trade. He is preparing a series of final publications on the Tel Dan excavations with the staff of the Nelson Glueck School.