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Topic

Religion

& Theology

Subtopic

Judeo-

Christianity

The Holy Land

Revealed

Course Guidebook

Professor Jodi Magness

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jodi Magness, Ph.D.

Kenan Distinguished Professor

for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

rofessor Jodi Magness holds a senior

endowed chair in the Department of Religious

Studies at the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill: the Kenan Distinguished Professor for

Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. Professor

Magness received her B.A. in Archaeology and

History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977) and her Ph.D. in

Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989). From

1990 to 1992, Professor Magness was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Syro-

Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at

Brown University. From 1992 to 2002, she was Associate and then Assistant

Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in the Departments of

Classics and Art History at Tufts University.

Professor Magness’s book

The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea

Scrolls

(Eerdmans, 2002) won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s

Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology for 2001–2002 and was

selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 by

Choice: Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries.

Her book

The Archaeology of the Early

Islamic Settlement in Palestine

(Eisenbrauns, 2003) was awarded the

2006 Irene Levi-Sala Prize for Books in the Archaeology of Israel in the

nonfiction category.

Professor Magness’s other books include

Jewish Daily Life in Late Second

Temple Period Palestine

(Eerdmans; forthcoming);

Debating Qumran:

Collected Essays on Its Archaeology

(Peeters, 2004);

Hesed ve-Emet: Studies

in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs

(coedited with Seymour Gitin; Scholars Press,

1998); and

Jerusalem Ceramic Chronology circa 200–800 C.E.

(Sheffield

Academic, 1993). She is currently at work on

The Archaeology of the Holy

Land 586 B.C.–640 C.E.

(under contract with Cambridge University Press).

In addition, Professor Magness has published numerous articles in journals

and edited volumes. Her research interests, which focus on Palestine in the

Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods, include ancient pottery, ancient

synagogues, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Roman army in the

East. Professor Magness has participated in 20 different excavations in Israel

and Greece, including codirecting the 1995 excavations in the Roman siege

works at Masada. From 2003 to 2007, she codirected excavations in the late

Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. In June 2011, she will begin a new excavation

project at Huqoq in Galilee.

In 1997–1998, Professor Magness was awarded a fellowship from the

American Council of Learned Societies and a fellowship in Byzantine Studies

at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC for research on

The Archaeology of

the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine.

In 2000–2001, Professor Magness

was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for

college teachers and a Skirball Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for

Hebrew and Jewish Studies for research on

The Archaeology of Qumran

and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In spring 2005, she received a Fulbright lecturing

award through the United States–Israel Educational Foundation to teach

two courses at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem. In 2007–2008, Professor Magness was awarded a fellowship

at the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in

Princeton, New Jersey, for research on

Aspects of Jewish Daily Life.

2008, she received a national teaching honor: the Archaeological Institute of

America’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Most recently,

Professor Magness was awarded a Chapman Family Faculty Fellowship for

2010–2011 at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill for work on

The Archaeology of the Holy Land, 586

B.C.–640 C.E.

Professor Magness is a member of the Managing Committee of the

American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Program Committee

of the Society of Biblical Literature. She has also been a member (and

past vice-president) of the board of trustees of the W. F. Albright Institute

of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, the governing board of the

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and the board of trustees of the

American Schools of Oriental Research. She also served as president of the

North Carolina Society of the AIA and the Boston Society of the AIA. ■

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Professor Biography ............................................................................i

Course Scope .....................................................................................1

LECTURE GUIDES

LECTURE 1

The Land of Canaan ...........................................................................5

LECTURE 2

The Arrival of the Israelites .................................................................8

LECTURE 3

Jerusalem—An Introduction to the City ............................................ 11

LECTURE 4

The Jerusalem of David and Solomon .............................................15

LECTURE 5

Biblical Jerusalem’s Ancient Water Systems ....................................18

LECTURE 6

Samaria and the Northern Kingdom of Israel ...................................21

LECTURE 7

Fortifications and Cult Practices .......................................................24

LECTURE 8

Babylonian Exile and the Persian Restoration .................................27

LECTURE 9

Alexander the Great and His Successors.........................................30

LECTURE 10

The Hellenization of Palestine ..........................................................33

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