Biblical Archaeology Slide-Lecture
Series
Admission
for reserved seating: $5. Please visit or call the Colden Box Office for tickets,
718-793-8080, during its regular hours. Tickets are on sale in the LeFrak
foyer prior to each lecture, if available.
Free parking in Lot 15 on Reeves Avenue (behind the LeFrak building)
and easy elevator access to the Concert Hall.
Jerusalem as a
Sanctuary City
Yuval Baruch
November 11,
wednesday, 7:30 pm
LeFrak Concert Hall
Yuval Baruch completed
all of his higher
education, including
his doctorate, at
Hebrew University.
He seems to have
known very early in his academic
career not only where he wanted to
study but also what he wanted to
study. It was all archaeology from
his BA, to his MA, to his PhD. He
has spent his entire rofessional life
as an archaeologist working for the
Israel Antiquities Authority, where
he serves as its Jerusalem District
Archaeologist. Dr. Baruch made
archaeological history in October
2007 with the discovery of artifacts
on the site of Jerusalem’s Temple
Mount. These artifacts are considered
to be the first physical evidence of
human activity during the time of
King Solomon’s Temple (the First
Jewish Temple). He has published
scores of archaeological articles and
has been the manager of many large
scale excavations including:
? near the Southern Wall of the
Temple Mount (Hulda Gate),
(Jerusalem)
? Umayyad Buildings, Jerusalem
? near the Northern Wall of
Jerusalem (Herod Gate)
? near the Eastern Wall of Jerusalem
(Lions’ Gate)
? Ramleh
The lecture and slide show will
focus on recent excavations, along
with new trends in the archaeological
study of the Second Temple Period,
which reflects Jerusalem as a sanctuary
city
Gamla’s War:
the Archaeology of
Religious Intensity
Yoav Arbel
December 2
Tuesday, 7:30 pm
LeFrak Concert Hall
Dr. Yoav Arbel
began his career in
field archaeology as
an enthusiastic teenage
volunteer, riding
bikes, buses, and trains
to work at various sites throughout
Israel. His first junior staff position
was during the 1980s at Gamla. He
later supervised excavation areas in
the Roman-Byzantine city of Beth
Shean, Hellenistic underground systems
of Maresh, and at several other
Israeli projects, and also conducted
digs in the UK, Germany, Turkey,
Jordan, and Tanzania. He earned a
bachelor’s degree in classical archaeology
and African studies from the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
(1995) and a master’s degree in
anthropological archaeology from the
University of California, San Diego
(2000), where he completed his
PhD in 2005. Dr. Arbel is currently
employed by the Israel Antiquities
Authority as a research archaeologist
and does most of his work in major
salvage excavations in ancient Jaffa.
Biblical
Archaeology
Slide-Lecture Series, LeFrak Concert Hall arbel-gamla ruins of Synagogue
arbel-gamla Site
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