Archaeology and Text: Toward Establishing a Meaningful Dialogue between Written Sources and Material Finds

Sunday, May 10 - National Library of , Jerusalem

09:00-09:15 Reception 09:15-09:30 Greetings Dr. Itzhaq Shai (Ariel University) Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed (Ministry of Science, Technology and Space) Session 1 Chair: Dr. Matthew J. Adams (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research) 09:30-10:00 Literary and Archaeological Sources: “Can [the] Two Walk Together?” (Amos 3:3) Prof. Lee I. Levine (Hebrew University) 10:00-10:30 Casually Reading the Finds? Towards a Methodologically Sound Relationship between Text and Archaeology in Phoenician Colonization Dr. Eleftheria Pappa (University of California, Santa Barbara) 10:30-11:00 Midian in Moab: Do the Historical Sources refer to the Mudayna Sites near the Arnon River? Prof. Haim Ben David (Kinneret College on the Sea of ) 11:00-11:20 Coffee Session 2 Chair: Prof. David Ussishkin (Tel Aviv University) 11:20-11:50 Herod’s Royal Portico on the Temple Mount - Between Josephus’ Text and the Archaeological Finds Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat (Hebrew University) 11:50-12:20 Purity Observance among Diaspora Jews Prof. Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 12:20-12:50 Josephus Flavius in the Galilee: Text and Archaeology Dr. Mordecai Aviam (Institute for Galilean Archaeology and Kinneret College on the )

12:50-14:00 Lunch Session 3 Prof. Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University) 14:00-14:30 Text and Archaeology: The Case of Tel Rehov in the 10-9th Centuries BCE Prof. Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University) 14:30-15:00 Iconographic Exegesis: One Interpretative Nexus of Archaeology and Text Dr. Izaak J. de Hulster (University of Helsinki and Georg-August Universität Göttingen) 15:00-15:30 Archaeology and Dating the Messiah: Establishing the Historical Background of Isaiah 10:28-34 Dr. Shawn Zelig Aster (Bar-Ilan University) 15:30-15:50 Coffee Session 4 Chair: Prof. Ronny Reich (Haifa University) 15:50-16:20 The Migdal Synagogue in the Context of Late Second Temple Synagogues in the Prof. Lutz Doering (University of Münster) 16:20-16:50 Cultic Items and Epigraphic Material: What is the Connection? Dr. Ian Stern (Hebrew Union College) and Prof. Esther Eshel (Bar-Ilan University) 16:50-17:20 Reading Between the Lines: Late Ancient Jewish Mortuary Practices in Text and Archaeology Dr. Karen B. Stern (City University of New York, Brooklyn College) 17:20-17:50 Hagiographical Holy-Man and Archaeological Monk: Holiness and Mundane Life in the Countryside of the Levant in Late Antiquity Dr. Jacob Ashkenazi (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee) Evening Dinner Monday, May 11 - Ariel University, Ariel

09:00-09:15 Reception 09:15-09:30 Greetings Prof. Michael Zinigrad (Ariel Universtiy - Rector) Session 1 Chair: Dr. Alexander Fantalkin (Tel Aviv University) 09:30-10:00 Texts, Master Narratives, and the Non-Textual Archaeological Record Prof. David Small (Lehigh University) 10:00-10:30 The Interface between Text and Artifact: Back to Basics? Some thoughts on “Bible and Spade” Prof. Aren M. Maeir (Bar-Ilan University) 10:30-11:00 Wood there be Context? Dendroprovenance & Ancient Texts Dr. Sara Rich (Maritime Archaeology Trust) 11:00-11:20 Coffee Session 2 Chair: Prof. Joseph Patrich (Hebrew University) 11:20-11:50 Purity and Purification in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Mikva’ot of Qumran: The Convergence of Archaeology and Text Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University) 11:50-12:20 Praxis versus Theory: Greek Papyrus Amulets and the Instructions for their Preparation Ms. Laura Willer (Heidelberg University) 12:20-12:50 Toward an “Archaeology of Halakhah”: Prospects and Pitfalls of Reading Early Jewish Ritual Law into the Ancient Material Record Dr. Yonatan Adler (Ariel University)

12:50-14:00 Lunch

Session 3 Prof. Gunnar Lehmann (Ben-Gurion University) 14:00-14:30 “And there was Peace between Israel and the Amorites” (1 Sam. 7:14) – Israelites and Canaanites in late Iron I Dr. Yigal Levin (Bar-Ilan University) 14:30-15:00 Samaria’s Role in the Days of Ahab and his Sons: History, Bible and Archaeology Dr. Amitai Baruchi-Unna (Hebrew University) 15:00-15:30 “Now there was no Smith Found throughout all the Land of Israel...”: 1 Samuel 13:19-23 in Light of the Accumulating Evidence for the Transition from Bronze to Iron Production Dr. Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University) and Dr. Itzhaq Shai (Ariel University) 15:30-15:50 Coffee Session 4 Chair: Prof. David Small (Lehigh University) 15:50-16:20 Heroes in the Post-Classical Polis: On Interpreting Archaeological and Written Sources Dr. Lucia Novakova (Trnava University) 16:20-16:50 Traditions of the Rock: Discerning and Defining Ancient Jewish Burial Grounds in Rome Ms. Jessica Dello Russo (International Catacomb Society and the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology) 16:50-17:20 Monumental Building Projects of Late Second Temple Jerusalem in light of Historical Sources and Recent Archaeological Excavations Dr. Joe Uziel (Israel Antiquities Authority), Mr. Nahshon Szanton (IAA), and Mr. Moran Hagbi (IAA) Evening Dinner

Tuesday, May 12 - Israel Museum, Jerusalem

09:00-10:00 Visit to the Dead Sea Scrolls Laboratory, Israel Antiquities Authority Guided by Mrs. Pnina Shor (Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Projects Unit of the IAA) 10:00-10:30 Coffee and Farewells