July 2019 BETH ALPERT NAKHAI Arizona Center for Judaic Studies The University of Arizona Marshall 422; 845 N. Park Ave. Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Office: (520) 626-5762 [email protected] EDUCATION: Ph.D., The University of Arizona Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Biblical Studies. Department of Near Eastern Studies. 1993 M.A., The University of Arizona Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Biblical Studies. Department of Oriental Studies. 1985 M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School Old Testament; New Testament. 1979 B.A., Connecticut College Government. 1972 ACADEMIC POSITIONS: Associate Professor Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 2006-present Affiliated Faculty Member School of Anthropology (2013-present); Department of Religious Studies and Classics (2013-present); School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (2011-present); Gender and Women’s Studies (1998- present) Assistant Professor Arizona Center for Judaic Studies (formerly, Committee on Judaic Studies). The University of Arizona. 2003-2006 Senior Lecturer Committee on Judaic Studies. The University of Arizona. 2001-2003 Lecturer Committee on Judaic Studies. The University of Arizona. 1994-2001 Adjunct Instructor Prescott College. Tucson, AZ. 1995 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS (University of Arizona): Acting Director Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. 2010-2011; Fall 2014 Graduate Advisor Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. 2010-present Undergraduate Advisor Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. 1999-2009, Spring-Summer 2016 Assistant Director Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, The University of Arizona. 2001-2006 Coordinator, Hebrew Program Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. 2005-2006 Beth Alpert Nakhai – July 2019 2 PUBLICATIONS (books): 2001 Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel. Atlanta: American Schools of Oriental Research. PUBLICATIONS (books, edited and co-edited): 2015 Celebrate Her for the Fruit of Her Hands: Studies in Honor of Carol L. Meyers, with S. Ackerman and C. Carter. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Co-editor. 2014 Household Religion: Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies; Proceedings of the International Conference at Westfälisches Wilhelms-Universität Münster, April 1st-3rd, 2009, with R. Albertz, R. Schmitt and S. Olyan. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Co-editor. 2013 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology. Editor in-chief D. Master. New York: Oxford University Press. Area editor. 2008 The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Editor. 2003 The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G. Dever. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 58. Atlanta: American Schools of Oriental Research. Editor. PUBLICATIONS (books under contract): • Tell el-Wawiyat: A Bronze-Iron I Village in Israel’s Lower Galilee. Archaeological Report Series. American Schools of Oriental Research. Boston, MA. With J.P. Dessel. ASOR. • Women in Near Eastern Archaeology: Why the Present Matters, and How It Affects Our Knowledge of the Past. Routledge. PUBLICATIONS (articles): 2019 Baby Burials in the Middle Bronze Age. Biblical Archaeology Review 45/4-5: 41-44, 90. 2019 Women in Israelite Religion: The State of Research Is All New Research. Religions. http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Israelite doi:10.3390/rel10020122 2018 A World of Possibilities: Jerusalem’s Women in the Iron Age (1000-586 BCE). Pp. 369-392 in Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and Beyond, eds. S. L. Budin, M. Cifarelli, A. Garcia-Ventura and A. Millet Albà. Barcino Monographica Orientalia 10. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. 2018 Factors Complicating the Reconstruction of Women’s Lives in Iron Age Israel (1200-587 B.C.E.). Pp. 289-313 in Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East, eds. S. Svärd and A. Garcia-Ventura. State College, PA: Eisenbrauns. 2018 When Considering Infants and Jar Burials in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant. Pp. 100-28 in Tell It in Gath: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel. Essays in Honor of A. M. Maier on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, eds. I. Shai, J. R. Chadwick, L. Hitchcock, A. Dagan, C. McKinney and J. Uziel. Ägypten und Altes Testament 90. Münster: Zaphon. 2015 Where to Worship? Religion in Iron II Israel and Judah. Pp. 90-101 in Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East, ed. N. Laneri. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. 2015 Plaque and Recumbent Figurines of the Late Bronze II. Pp. 327-56 in Celebrate Her for the Fruit of Her Hands: Studies in Honor of Carol L. Meyers, eds. S. Ackerman, C. Carter and B. Alpert Nakhai. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2014 The Household as Sacred Space. Pp. 53-71 in Household Religion: Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies; Proceedings of the International Conference at Westfälisches Wilhelms-Universität Münster, April 1st-3rd, 2009, eds. R. Albertz, B. Alpert Nakhai, S. Olyan and R. Schmitt. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2014 Mother-and-Child Figurines in the Late Bronze–Persian Period Levant. Pp. 165-98 in Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin, eds. J. Spencer, R. Mullins and A. Brody. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2011 Varieties of Religious Expression in the Domestic Setting. Pp. 347-60 in Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond, eds. A. Yasur-Landau, J. R. Ebeling and L. B. Mazow. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 50. Leiden: Brill. 2008 Female Infanticide in Iron II Israel and Judah. Pp. 245-60 in Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible and Religion in Honor of R. E. Friedman on His 60th Birthday, ed. S. Dolansky. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008 Contextualizing Village Life in the Iron Age I. Pp. 121-37 in Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 BCE). Volume 1: The Archaeology, ed. L. L. Grabbe. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 491; European Seminar in Historical Methodology 7. London: Continuum. Beth Alpert Nakhai – July 2019 3 2008 Central Commentary: R’eih. Pp. 1115-33 in The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, eds. T. C. Eskenazi and A. L. Weiss. New York: URJ Press and Women of Reform Judaism. 2007 Gender and Archaeology in Israelite Religion. Compass Religion 1/5: 512-28. 2005 Daily Life in the Ancient Near East: New Thoughts on an Old Topic. Religious Studies Review: A Quarterly Review of Publications in the Field of Religion and Related Disciplines 31/3-4: 147-53. 2003 Israel on the Horizon: The Galilee in the Iron I. Pp. 131-51 in The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G. Dever, ed. B. Alpert Nakhai. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 58. Atlanta: ASOR. 1999 Israelite Religion beyond the Temple: The Archaeological Witness. The World of the Bible 1: 38-43. 1994 What's a Bamah? How Sacred Space Functioned in Ancient Israel. Biblical Archaeology Review 20:18-29, 77-78. PUBLICATIONS (articles in press): • Autobiographical Reflections: Archaeology and History. In Women and the Society of Biblical Literature, ed. Society of Biblical Literature. Biblical Scholarship in North America 29. Atlanta: SBL Press. 2019. • Revisiting Iron Age Israel: New Archaeological Approaches. In The State Of Jewish Studies, ed. C. S. Ehrlich. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2019. PUBLICATIONS (articles, co-authored): 1999 A Landscape Comes to Life: The Iron I Period. Near Eastern Archaeology 62/2: 62-92, 101-27, with E. Bloch- Smith. 1993 Tell el-Wawiyat. Pp. 1500-1 in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 4, ed. E. Stern. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, with J. P. Dessel and B. L. Wisthoff. 1990 Tell el-Wawiyat (Bet Netofa Valley) - 1987. Excavations and Surveys in Israel 1988/89 (Vol. 7-8): 183-84. Jerusalem: Hadashot Archaeologiyot, with J. P. Dessel and B. L. Wisthoff. 1989 Tell el-Wawiyat, 1987. Israel Exploration Journal 39/1-2: 102-4, with J. P. Dessel and B. L. Wisthoff. 1988 Tell el-Wawiyat. Revue biblique 95/2: 247-51, with J. P. Dessel and B. L. Wisthoff. 1988 Tell el-Wawiyat, 1986. Excavations and Surveys in Israel 1987/88 (Vol. 6): 100-2. Jerusalem: Hadashot Archaeologiyot, with J. P. Dessel and B. L. Wisthoff. 1987 Tell el-Wawiyat. Israel Exploration Journal 37/2-3: 181-85, with J. P. Dessel and B. L. Wisthoff. PUBLICATIONS (encyclopedia entries): 2011 Ammon, Ammonites; Bethel (Biblical); Edom, Edomites; Hazor (Biblical); Hebron (Biblical); Lachish (Biblical); Moab, Moabites (Biblical); Samaria (Biblical); Shechem (Biblical); Shiloh (Biblical) in The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, ed. J. R. Baskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003 Canaanite Religion. Pp. 343-48 in Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader, ed. S. Richard. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2001 Tell el-Wawiyat. P. 531 in Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, rev. and updated, eds. A. Negev and S. Gibson. New York: Continuum. 2000 A/tar (pp. 45-48); High Place (pp. 588-89) in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, eds. D. N. Freedman, C. Myers and A. B. Beck. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. 1999 Archaeology. Pp. 50-51 in Encyclopedia of Women and World Religions, vol. 1, ed. S. Young. New York: Macmillan Reference. 1997 Beth Zur (vol. 1, p. 314); Furniture and Furnishings: Furnishings of the Bronze and Iron Ages (vol. 2, pp. 354-46); Kitan, Tel, (vol. 3, p. 300); Locus (vol. 3, pp. 383-84); Syro-Palestinian Temples (vol. 5, pp. 169-74); Wawiyat, Tell el- (vol. 5, pp. 333-34) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. M. Meyers. New York: Oxford University Press. PUBLICATIONS (reviews and short pieces): 2019 Factors Complicating the Reconstruction of Women’s Lives in Iron Age Israel.