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Archeologie / DEVER, WILLIAM G.

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Position

Archaeologist,
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Arizona, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

Near Eastern archeology; ancient Syria-Palestine and the lifeways of the ancient Canaanites and Israelites; excavations at Tell Gezer in Israel; archaeology and biblical studies.

International experience : Middle East; Syria ; Palestine ; Israel ; Jordan; Egypt

Prix et récompenses

The Percia Schimmel Prize, the Israel Museum, 1982 (for distinction in archaeology)
The P.E. MacAllister Award (for distinguished contributions to Near Eastern archaeology), 1997.

Publications

Books and monographs :

2001 : What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

2001 : Co-editor (with S. Richard), A Reader in the Archaeology of Palestine, Winona Lake : Eisenbrauns.

2001 : AFor Those Who Sleep in the Dust@: Essays on the Bronze and Iron Ages of Ancient Palestine, ed. L.E. Stager. Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

2001 : Who were the Early Israelites, and Where Did they Come From?

2001 : Symbiosis, Symbolism and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Israel and their Neighbors. Co-editor (with S. Gitin), Winona Lake: American Schools of Oriental Research.

Chapters in books :

2001 : "Archaeology and the History of Israel"; "Biblical and Syro-Palestinian Archaeology"; "Archaeology, the Israelite Monarchy, and the Solomonic Temple". Pp. 119-126; 127-147; 186-206 in The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible, ed. L.G. Perdue. Oxford: Blackwell Publisher.