Field-trips / Lectures

There will be one field trip and two lectures per week. Field trips will be held to various archaeological sites or excavations in progress, and include walking tours to sites in  Jerusalem`s Old City. Field trips and lectures will be part of a projected student credit program which will arranged in the summer from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte - details will be available soon. Other team members are welcome to join, but need to register two days in advance of the field trips.  All field trips will be guided free as part of the excavation program, but nominal entrance fees at some sites may be charged, e.g. Temple Mount, Zedekiah's Cave.

Schedule of Lectures for the 2009 Season:

Week 1:

15.6. Lecture    Shimon Gibson           "Introduction to Archaeology

                                                            in Jerusalem"

16.6. Field trip  James Tabor              Visit to the Temple Mount 

                                                            Excavations 

18.6. Lecture    Tina Wray                  "Hazardous Duty: Life for Women

                                                            during Biblical Antiquity"   

Week 2:

22.6. Lecture   Rafi Lewis                   "Battlefield Archaeology:

                                                            Jerusalem in Conflict"  

24.6. Field trip Shimon Gibson            Visit to Solomon's Quarries

                                                            or Zedekiah's Cave

25.6. Lecture   Jodi Magness              "Redating of Synogogues 

                                                            in the Galilee"  

Week 3:

29.6. Lecture    Tsvika Tsuk               "Water Systems in Antiquity"    

1.7.   Field trip Tabor & Gibson          Visit to Archaeological Sites

                                                            on Mount Zion

2.7.   Lecture     James Tabor             "Paul in Jerusalem. New Ideas"

Week 4:

6.7. Lecture     Boas Zissu                  "Second-Temple Period Tombs

                                                            in Jerusalem"

8.7. Field trip  Mareike Grosser          Visit to Akeldama

9.7. Lecture     Shimon Gibson            Summary of the 2009 excavations

The lectures, field trip destinations, and dates might be subject to change on short notice.

The Lecture Program offered in 2008 included:

• Shimon Gibson: "The History of Archaeology in Jerusalem"
• Shimon Gibson: "Excavation Techniques"
• James Tabor: "Toilets and Tombs: Reading Ancient Texts in the Light of Archaeological Evidence"
• Ram Bouchnik (Haifa University): "Animal Bones in Archaeology"
• Zvika Greenhut (Israel Antiquities Authorities): "A Second Temple Period House in the Upper City and the Caiaphas Tomb"
• Egon Lass (formerly Israel Antiquities Authorities): "Flotation Methods in Archaeology"
• Warren Schultz (DePaul University): "Islamic Jerusalem and Coinage"
• Erin Kuhns (Duke University): "Iron Age Figurines: Gender and Religion in Archaeology"
• Gerald Finkielstejn (Israel Antiquities Authorities): "The Archaeology of Administration in the Hellenistic Southern Levant"
• Claire Pfann (University of the Holy Land): "Archaeology and the Gospels"
• Boaz Zissu (Bar Ilan University): "Judean Burial Practices"

Drawing at the Cave of John the Baptist	John the Baptist Cave at Suba
Tomb of David at the time of Kaiser Wilhelm`s visit 1898	Herod`s Tomb:          field trip in 2007