Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize Recipients
2011: Helen R. Jacobus
University of Manchester
“4Q318: A Jewish Zodiac Calendar at Qumran.”
Published in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Contexts, ed. C. Hempl (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 90; Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 365-95.
2009: Jonathan S. Greer
Pennsylvania State University
“An Israelite Mizrāq at Tel Dan?”
Paper given at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.
2008: Lucy Wadeson
Keble College, Oxford University
“Chariots of Fire: Elijah and the Zodiac in Synagogue Floor Mosaics of Late Antique Palestine.”
Published in Aram, 20: 1-41 (2008).
2007: James F. Osborne
Harvard University
“The Bench Tomb in Iron Age Judah: Secondary Mortuary Practice and Social Values.”
Paper given at the 2007 ASOR Annual Meeting.
2006: Adam Kolman Marshak
Yale University
“The Dated Coins of Herod the Great: Towards a New Chronology.”
2005: John D.M. Green
Institute of Archaeology, University College London
“Anklets and the Construction of Gender and Age in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Southern Levant.”
Paper given at the 2005 ASOR Annual Meeting.
2004: Laura B. Mazow
Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Arizona
“Competing Material Culture: Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekron in the Early Iron Age.”
Paper given at the 2004 ASOR Annual Meeting.
2003: Christine M. Thompson
Department of Classics and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
“Sealed Silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the ‘Invention’ of Coinage.”
Published in Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 22/1: 67-107 (2003).
2002: Juan Manuel Tebes
School of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
“A New Analysis of the Iron Age I ‘Chiefdom’ of Tel Masos (Beersheba Valley).”
Published in: XIV Jornadas de Becarios de Investigacion, Secretaria de Ciéncia y Tecnica, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Aula Orientalis.
2001: Edward Maher
University of Illinois
“Food for the Gods: The Identification of Sacrificial Faunal Assemblages in the Ancient Near East.”
Paper given at the 2001 ASOR Annual Meeting.