and
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
present
The Underground Lecture Series*:
What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel*
IV. Jerusalem in the Time of Herod
Speaker: Jodi Magness, PhD
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Location: Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall**
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm
Professor Magness’s recent publications include:
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans, 2002), which won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine.
The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Eisenbrauns, 2003), which was awarded the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of nonfiction on the archaeology of Israel.
Professor Magness currently holds a fellowship at the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, where she is working on a book provisionally titled Archaeological Expressions of Jewish Ritual Purity.
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* Barnard Hall is the building directly opposite the Barnard College gates on the west side of Broadway at 118th Street.
