Ze'ev Herzog

Ze'ev Herzog

Tel Aviv University – Professor Emeritus
1997 Grant Co-recipient with Anson Rainey and Itzaq Beit-Ariyeh
2022 Shelby White and Leon Levy Program Grant Co-Recipient with Ido Koch
Z. Herzog

The Fortress Mound at Tel Arad: Excavated by Yohanan Aharoni from 1962 to 1967

2022 Grant

Beer-Sheba III - The Early Iron IIA Enclosed Settlement and the Late Iron IIA–Iron IIB Cities

1997 Grant – PUBLISHED 2016.

Professor Emeritus at the Jakob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University. His field experience stated in 1965 as an area supervisor at Tel Arad under Yohanan Aharoni, followed by excavations at Megiddo, Hazor under Yigael Yadin; he directed excavations at Tel Beer-Sheva (1976), Tel Michal (1977–1980), Tel Gerisa (1981–1995) and Tel Yafo (ancient Jaffa) (1997–1999). He was appointed visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. Herzog served as Director of the Institute of Archeology at Tel Aviv University (2005–2011) and has been the archaeological consultant of the Israel Nature and Park Authority, supervising the development of the national parks at Tel Arad and Tel Beer-Sheva (UNESCO World Heritage site).

Herzog is among the scholars who claim that the archaeology of ancient Israel is experiencing a scientific revolution, shifting from Biblical to social archaeology. Thus he studied the urban experience in ancient Israel and its social ramifications. His recent research concentrates on the history of cult changes in the Kingdom of Judah (9th-7th centuries BCE), based mainly on his analysis of the remains of the temple at Tel Arad and a horned altar in Tel Beer-Sheva. The challenge of this topic is the confrontation of the archaeological data with the biblical records on cult reforms and their interpretation by modern scholars.

 

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