Kiriath-jearim

This volume reports the results of the Tel Aviv University and the Collège de France’s excavations at Kiriath-jearim. The site, located on a strategic peak west of Jerusalem, is of crucial importance for the study of the archaeology and history of Iron Age Israel and Judah, and later, of Hellenistic and Roman Judea. Specific attention is given to the later phases of the Iron Age, attempting to shed light on the biblical tradition that the site accommodated the temple of the Ark.

Israel Finkelstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Culture at the University of Haifa. He is Co-director of the Megiddo Expedition. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He is the Laureate of the Dan David Prize, 2005, and Recipient of the MacAllister Field Archaeology Award of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017. He has authored and edited 23 books and published some 450 scholarly articles.

Thomas Römer is Professor at the Collège de France and its President since 2019 and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Lausanne. He holds honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and the Catholic University of Lyon. His current research covers the formation of the Torah, the so-called Deuteronomistic History and its social and historical setting, as well as the relationship between literary and archaeological approaches to understanding the Hebrew Bible. He is one of the main editors of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. His main publications include: Israels Väter (1990); The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (translated into many languages); L’invention de Dieu (translated into many languages) and Genèse 11,26–25,18; L’histoire d’Abraham.