Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

FAIN: RA-50046-06

Albright Institute (Arlington, VA 22207-1210)
Seymour Gitin (Project Director: November 2005 to June 2012)
Joan R. Branham (Co Project Director: April 2010 to June 2012)

Funding details:
Original grant (2006) $198,000.00
Supplement (2008) $81,600.00

The equivalent to 1.5 fulltime fellowships per year for three years.

The W.F. Albright Institute is applying for one twelve-month and one six-month post-doctoral fellowship for each of the academic years 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10. These would be continuous, residential fellowships at the institute, which is located in Jerusalem. Fellows are expected to pursue a senior level research project, give a public lecture to the academic community while in residence, and participate in the activities of the institute's scholarly community. The fellows' research projects should culminate in a scholarly publication(s). The Albright is dedicated to pursuing research across the entire gamut of ancient Near Eastern Studies, from pre-history through the early Islamic Period. The impact of this research, transmitted through its hundreds of alumni to institutions all over the world, has had a profound effect on our understanding of the growth of western civilization and its origins in the ancient Near East.

Associated Products

The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon: Ashkelon 3, The Seventh Century B.C. (Book)
Title: The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon: Ashkelon 3, The Seventh Century B.C.
Editor: J. David Schloen
Editor: Lawrence E. Stager
Editor: Daniel M. Master
Abstract: The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon continues its final report series with a study of the city destroyed in the campaign of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in December of 604 B.C. In this era, Ashkelon's markets linked land routes from the southeast to a web of international Mediterranean merchants, and this volume describes the Iron Age bazaar where shopkeepers sold the goods of Egypt, Greece, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Judah.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/final-reports-of-the-leon-levy-expedition-to-ashkelon-ashkelon-3-the-seventh-century-bc-by-lawrence-e-stager-daniel-m-master-and-j-david-schloen-with-contributions-by-adam-j-aja-et-al/oclc/773497721&referer=brief_resul
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781575069395
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

A Stratified Account of Jephthah’s Negotiations and Battle: Judges 11:12-33 from an Archaeological Perspective (Article)
Title: A Stratified Account of Jephthah’s Negotiations and Battle: Judges 11:12-33 from an Archaeological Perspective
Author: Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
Abstract: The account of Jephthah's battle against the Ammonites in Judg 11:12-33 contains glaring inconsistencies. Negotiations preceding the battle invoke Israelite conflict with Amorites and Moabites -- none of which pertain to Ammon. An archaeological survey of the vacillating fortunes of Transjordanian Moab, Ammon, and Gilead suggests historical contexts an approximate dates for periods of territorial contention between Israel and its neighbors. Reading the invocation of war against Sihon/Moab (early ninth century) in the context of later conflicts with Ammon (late ninth or eighth century) explains some of the apparent inconsistencies and dates the historical contexts invoked in this and other biblical texts that pit Israel against these Transjordanian nations. Archaeological remains from Hesban (Heshbon) and Dhiban (Dibon) add datable parameters for texts or the updating of passages that feature these sites. So, for example in the Judges text, celebrating Heshbon rather than Dibon as Sihon's capital city likely dates this version of events to the seventh or perhaps the sixth century.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15699/jbl.1342.2015.2707
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Biblical Literature
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Levantine Ceramics Project (Web Resource)
Title: Levantine Ceramics Project
Author: Andrea Berlin
Abstract: An online international collaborative website that is crowd-sourced, and allows anybody to submit and search for information about ceramics produced in the Levant - meaning parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, and Egypt - from antiquity through modern times.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.levantineceramics.org

Land/Homeland, Story/History: the Social Landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus (Book Section)
Title: Land/Homeland, Story/History: the Social Landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus
Author: Andrea Berlin
Editor: A. Yasur-Landau, E. Cline, and Y. Rowan
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: The Cambridge Social Archaeology of the Levant from Prehistory to the Present

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