Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee: The Publication of Yizhar Hirschfeld’s excavations (1993, 2004–2006, 2008)

Dr. Shulamit Miller is an archaeologist whose scholarship engages varied expressions of urban life in the Roman and Late Antique Levant within the broader social and economic contexts of the Mediterranean, through a study of material culture, visual representations, and textual sources. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a research fellow at Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as at the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa.

Dr. Miller has authored and co-authored several articles focusing on Tiberias in the Roman, Later Roman, and Early Islamic periods, highlighting different aspects of the city’s material culture that is discussed contextually to form a cohesive account of the city’s cultural history. She has recently completed a project dedicated to changing religious landscapes in the predominantly Jewish cities of the Galilee, and as a result has co-authored Sepphoris 3: The Temple and Eastern Church in the Lower City. She has also excavated at several sites in the Galilee and continues to be actively involved in the study of the two main cities of the region, Tiberias and Sepphoris. Additional areas of her interests include houses and daily life, urban development, private and public space, urban agriculture, mosaic art, Jewish and Christian art and architecture, and the larger questions of cultural connectivity between the Levant and broader Mediterranean region.