CURRICULUM VITAE

(Abbreviated Version 2/5/02)

William G. Dever, Professor Emeritus

Department of Near Eastern Studies

EDUCATION

1955 B.A., Milligan College (cum laude in Religion)

1959 M.A., Butler University (summa cum laude; major in Semitics)

1959 B.D., Christian Theological Seminary (cum laude in Hebrew and Greek)

1966 Ph.D., Harvard University. Thesis: "The EV IV-MB I Period in Syria-Palestine, ca. 2150-1850 B.C." (awarded "Distinction"). Major in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; minors in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature, Hebrew Bible

1997 Ll.D., honoris causa, Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion

FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC HONORS

Robert H. Pfeiffer Travelling Fellow of Harvard University, 1962, 1964-65

Member: Theta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi

The Percia Schimmel Prize, the Israel Museum, 1982 (for distinction in archaeology)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1981-82 (Israel)

The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectureship, University of Washington, 1985

The Norton Lectureship, Archaeological Institute of America, 1990-91 (10 lectures nationwide)

The P.E. MacAllister Award (for distinguished contributions to Near Eastern archaeology), 1997

EMPLOYMENT

1964-65 Archaeological Fellow, Nelson Glueck School of Biblical

Archaeology, Jerusalem

1966-67 Senior Archaeological Fellow, Ibid.

1967-68 Assistant Professor and Executive Officer, Ibid.

1968-71 Director, Ibid.

1969-70 Visiting Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Union

College, Cincinnati (on sabbatical)

1971-75 Director, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research,

Jerusalem (formerly the "American School of Oriental Research");

also Professor of Near Eastern History and Archeology

(1973-75)

1973-75 Associate Professor of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

(School for Overseas Students)

1971-75 Associate Professor of Archaeology, Christian Theological

Seminary, Indianapolis (in absentia)

1975-Present Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology Departments, University of Arizona, Tucson; also Head, Department of Oriental Studies (1978-81), Head, Department of Near Eastern Studies (1989-1994)

1981-82 Visiting Professor of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor, School for Overseas Students, Brandeis

University, Jerusalem (on sabbatical on Guggenheim)

1989 Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan; Visiting Professor, Andrews University (both Spring semester, on sabbatical)

1998 ADistinguished Visiting Scholar,@ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel (Spring term)

PROFESSIONAL AND FIELD EXPERIENCE

1962-64 Area Supervisor, Shechem (West Bank)

1964-65 Architect and Photographer, Gezer (Israel)

1966-71 Director, Harvard Semitic Museum--Hebrew Union College

Excavations at Gezer (six consecutive summers)

1972-74 Senior Advisor, Gezer

1967-71 Director, Kh. el-Qôm, Jebel Qa^caqir (West Bank)

1978-80 Co-Director, Central Negev Highlands Project (with Rudolph

Cohen)

1981-85 Principal Investigator, Tell el-Hayyat excavations (Jordan)

1982-96 Principal Advisor, Tell Miqne (Israel)

1984 Director, Gezer

1986-- Principal Investigator, Tell Wawiyat Regional Project (Israel)

1986-88 Principal Advisor, Beth-shan Valley Survey (Israel)

1990 Director, Gezer

1998-- Principal Advisor, Tell Zeitah excavations (Israel)

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Editorial Board, The Biblical Archaeologist (1969-77)

Editor, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1978-84); member of Editorial Board (1969-1993)

Editorial Board, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (1987-1992)

Principal Editorial Advisor, all archaeological entries, Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992; six volumes)

Editorial Board, American Journal of Archaeology (1989B1996)

Editor, Annuals of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1989-1997)

Editorial Board, Archaeology (1993B2000)

Senior Editor for Israel/Palestine, Oxford Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology (5 volumes; 1996)

Editorial Board, Journal for the Critical Study of Religion (1998B)

Editorial Board, Archaeological Odyssey (1999B)

Editorial Board, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

Section Editor, Women in Archaeology: The Classical World and the Near East (2 volumes; 2001)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Schools of Oriental Research (Trustee, 1976-82; Vice President 1982-88, oversight of more than 40 ASOR excavations throughout the Middle East; Life Trustee and Patron of the Jerusalem School, the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 1989--; Vice President, Cyprus American Archaeological Institute (1994-1996); Trustee, ASOR, 1996--.

Archaeological Institute of America (Member of Executive Committee, 1976-82; Chairman of Publications Committee, 1979-81; Member of Lecture Tour Committee, 1988-1994; Norton Lecturer, 1990-91; Member of Near East Committee, 1993; 1999--co-founder, Southern Arizona chapter, 1976; Member of Gold Medal and Foreign Memberships Committees, 1994--)

American Oriental Society (Chairman of Nominating Committee, Western Branch, 1977-80)

Israel Exploration Society (member)

Society of Biblical Literature (member)

Reviewer for NEH General Research Program grants (1976--); Senior Review Panels, Washington: Challenge Grants Program, 1982; Old World Archaeology, 1985, 1999

Reviewer for National Geographic Society grants in archaeology (1979--)

Major consultant, Chaplains' Training Program, Department of the Navy, on theme "Archaeology and Biblical Studies" (1986-87; 10 weeks of workshops for all 1200 Navy chaplains)

POST-DOCTORAL GRANTS

1966 American Philosophical Society (Summer), $1,050; travel in Eastern Europe

1966-71 The Smithsonian Institution, ca. $750,000 in PL 480 funds; Harvard Semitic Museum/Hebrew Union College Excavations at Gezer (Israel)

1976 University of Arizona Foundation, $2,500; summer (Israel)

1978 University of Arizona Foundation, $4,500; summer (Israel)

1979 University of Arizona Foundation, $15,000; summer (Israel)

1979 National Endowment for the Humanities, $17,500; Central Negev Highlands Project (Israel)

1980 National Endowment for the Humanities, $81,680; Central Negev Highlands Project (Israel)

1981-83 National Endowment for the Humanities/Society of Biblical Literature, $3,000; a history of Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology

1982 University of Arizona Foundation, $30,000; Tell el-Hayyat excavations (Israel)

1983 National Geographic Society, $15,000; Tell el-Hayyat excavations (Israel)

1984 University of Arizona Foundation, $15,000; Gezer excavations

1984 National Geographic Society, $15,000; Gezer excavations

1985-86 National Endowment for the Humanities, $250,000 (five Principal Investigators); summer workshop in N.E. Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania

1985-89 University of Arizona Foundation, $45,000; Tell Wawiyat excavations

1995 National Endowment for the Humanities, $86,540; Summer Seminar for College Teachers.

1999 Shelby White-Leon Levy Foundation, $25,000; Jebel Qa^caqir and Beer Resisim excavations (Israel)

LECTURESHIPS (more than 100 invited; some 35 at international symposia)

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

1977-87 Member of Graduate Council; Chairman, Committee on Dissertation Awards, 1982-83

1978-81 Member of All-University Promotion and Tenure Committee

1977-78 Chairman (honorary), Department of Oriental Studies

1978-81 Head, Department of Oriental Studies (35 Faculty)

1982-83 Member of Search Committee for Dean of Faculty of Social and

Behavioral Sciences

1983-- Member, President's Club (for contributions to the University)

1984-85 Member, Executive Committee, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences

1989-93 Head and Founder, Department of Near Eastern Studies

1989 Led UA Alumni trip to Egypt

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

Founder and Major Advisor of graduate program in Syro-Palestinian archaeology, Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology Departments, 1979—present. Supervised more than 20 Ph.D. dissertations.

PUBLICATIONS

A. Books and Monographs

1970 Co-author (with H. D. Lance and G.E. Wright), Gezer I. Preliminary Report of the 1964-66 Seasons. Annual of the HUCBASJ, I. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College.

1973 Co-editor (with S. Paul), Biblical Archaeology. Library of Jewish Knowledge Series. Jerusalem: Keter Press.

1974 Archaeology and Biblical Studies: Retrospects and Prospects. The Winslow Lectures at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1972. Evanston: Seabury-Western.

1974 Editor and co-author (with R. G. Bullard, D. P. Cole, H. D. Lance, J.D. Seger), Gezer II. Report of the 1967-71 Seasons in Fields I and II. Annual of the NGSBAJ, II. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College.

1978 Co-editor (with H. D. Lance), A Manual of Field Excavation: Handbook for Field Archaeologists. New York: Hebrew Union College.

1987 Editor and principal author, Gezer IV. The 1968-71 Seasons in Field VI, The "Acropolis." Annual of the NGSBAJ, IV (two volumes). Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College.

1989 Co-editor (with S. Gitin), Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 49. Winona Lake, IN: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1990 Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research (the Stroum Lectures, University of Washington, 1985). Seattle: University of Washington Press.

1992 Editor (author A. Leonard). The Jordan Valley Survey, 1953: Some Unpublished Soundings Conducted by James Mellaart. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 50. Winona Lake, IN: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1994a (ed.) Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Paphos, Caesarea, Maritima, Shiqmim, ^cAin Ghazzal. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 51. Winona Lake, IN: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1994.

1994b Studies in Scarab Seals, Volume Three: Scarab Typology and Archaeological Context. An Essay an Middle Bronze Chronology. San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1994 (with W.A. Ward).

1995 (ed.) Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Bir Umm Fawkhir, Tell el-Umeiri, The Combined Caesarea Expeditions, and Tell Dothan. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 52. Winona Lake, IN: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1995.

1996 (ed.) Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Idalion, Tell Handaquq South. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 53. Winona Lake, IN: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1997 The Echoes of Many Texts: Reflections on Jewish and Christian Traditions. Essays in Honor of Lou H. Silberman (co-editor, with J.E. Wright). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

1998 Gezer: At the Crossroads of Ancient Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, (Hebrew).

2001a What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

2001b Co-editor (with S. Richard), A Reader in the Archaeology of Palestine, Winona Lake : Eisenbrauns.

2001c AFor Those Who Sleep in the Dust@: Essays on the Bronze and Iron Ages of Ancient Palestine, ed. L.E. Stager. Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

2001d Who were the Early Israelites, and Where Did they Come From?

2001e Symbiosis, Symbolism and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Israel and their Neighbors. Co-editor (with S. Gitin), Winona Lake: American Schools of Oriental Research.

B. Chapters in Books

1970 "The `Middle Bronze I' Period in Syria and Palestine." Pp. 132-163 in J. A. Sanders, ed., Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century. Garden City: Doubleday; The Nelson Glueck Festschrift.

1976a "Gezer." Pp. 432-443 in M. Avi-Yonah, ed., Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Vol. II. Jerusalem: Massada.

1976b "The Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in Syria-Palestine. Pp. 3-38 in F.M. Cross, Jr., W.E. Lemke, and P.D. Miller, eds., Magnalia Dei: The Mighty Acts of God. Essays on the Bible and Archaeology in Memory of G. Ernest Wright. Garden City: Doubleday.

1977a "The Middle Bronze I Occupation and Pottery of `Araq en-Nasâneh (Cave II)." Pp. 33-48 in P.W. and N.L. Lapp, eds., Discoveries in the Wadi Dâliyeh. Cambridge: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1977b "Palestine in the Second Millennium B.C.E.: The Archaeological Picture." Pp. 70-120 in H. J. Hays and J.M. Miller, eds., Israelite and Judean History. Philadelphia: Westminster.

1983a "The Late Bronze, Iron Age, and Hellenistic Defences at Gezer." Journal of Jewish Studies 33:19-34 (Yadin Festschrift).

1983b "Recent Archaeological Confirmation of the Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel." Hebrew Studies 23:37-43 (M. Mansour Festschrift).

1983c "Monumental Architecture in Ancient Israel in the Period of the United Monarchy." Pp. 269-306 in T. Ishida, ed., Studies in the Period of David and Solomon and Other Essays. Tokyo: Yamakawa-Shuppansha.

1983d "Material Remains and the Cult in Ancient Israel: An Essay in Archaeological Systematics." Pp. 571-587 in Carol L. Meyers and M. O'Connor, eds., The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday. Philadelphia: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1985a "Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology." Pp. 31-74 in D. A. Knight and G.M. Tucker, eds., The Hebrew Bible and Its Modern Interpreters. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

1985b "From the End of the Early Bronze to the Beginning of the Middle Bronze." Pp. 113-135 in J. Amitai, ed., Biblical Archaeology Today. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

1985c "Relations Between Syria-Palestine and Egypt in the 'Hyksos' Period." Pp. 69-87 in J.N. Tubb, ed., Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Age: Essays in Honour of Olga Tufnell. London: Aris & Phillips.

1986 "Abel Beth-Ma'acah: Northern Gateway of Ancient Israel." Pp. 207-222 in L.T. Geraty and L.G. Herr, eds., The Archaeology of Jordan and Other Studies. Berrien Springs: Andrews University (Siegried Horn Festschrift).

1987a "The Contribution of Archaeology to the Study of Canaanite and Israelite Religion." Pp. 209-247 in P.D. Miller, Jr., P.D. Hanson, and S.D. McBride, eds., Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Philadelphia: Fortress.

1987b "Funerary Practices in Syria-Palestine in EB IV (MB I): A Study in Cultural Discontinuity." Pp. 9-19 in John Marks, ed., Love and Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope. Guilford, CN: Four Quarters Publishing Co.

1988a "Impact of the `New Archaeology'." Pp. 337-352 in J.F. Drinkard, Jr., G.L. Mattingly, and J.M. Miller, eds. Benchmarks in Time and Culture: Introduction to Palestinian Archaeology. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

1988b "Cave I.3A: The Pottery." Pp. 21-33 in Gezer V. The Caves in Field I (J.D. Seger, author) Annual of the NGSBAJ, V. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College.

1989a "The Collapse of the Urban Early Bronze Age in Palestine: Toward a Systemic Analysis." Pp. 225-46 in P. de Miroschedji, ed., "L'Urbanisation de la Palestine à l'âge du Bronze ancien. Oxford: BAR International Series.

1989b "Archaeology in Israel Today: A Summation and Critique." Pp. 143-152 in S. Gitin and W.G. Dever, eds., Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology. Annuals of the American Schools of Oriental Research 49. Winona Lake, IN: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1990 "Religion and Cult in Ancient Israel: Social and Economic Implications." Pp. 175-180 in P. Matthiae, ed., Anathema: Regime del offerte ed economica dei santuari nell Mediterraneo anticho. Scienze dell 'antichità storia archeologia antropologia 3-4 (1989-1990). Rome: University of Rome.

1991a "Archaeology, Material Culture and the Early Monarchical Period." Pp. 103-115 in D.V. Edelman, ed., The Fabric of History. Text, Artifact and Israel's Past. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

1991b "Unresolved Issues in the Early History of Israel: Toward a Synthesis of and Textual Reconstructions." Pp. 195-208 in D. Jobling, P.L. Day, and G.T. Sheppard, eds., The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press.

1992a "How to Tell a Canaanite from an Israelite." Pp. 27-56 in H. Shanks, ed., The Rise of Ancient Israel. Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society.

1992b "The Late Bronze-Early Iron I Horizon in Syria-Palestine. Egyptians, Canaanites, 'Sea Peoples,' and 'Proto-Israelites'." Pp. 99-110 in W.A. Ward and M.S. Joukowsky, eds. The Crisis Years: The 12th Century B.C.: From Beyond the Danube to the Tigris. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

1992d "The Chronology of Syria-Palestine in the Second Millennium B.C.E.: A Review of Current Issues." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 288: 1-25.

1992e "Pastoral Nomadism and the End of the Early Bronze Age in Palestine." Pp. 83-94 in O. Bar-Yosef and A. Khazanov, eds., Pastoralism in the Levant. Archaeological Materials in Anthropological Perspective. Madison, WI: Prehistory Press.

1993a "Biblical Archaeology--Death and Rebirth?" Pp. 706-22 in A. Biran and J. Aviram, eds., Biblical Archaeology Today, 1990. Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, June 1990. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

1993b "The Rise of Complexity in Palestine in the Early Second Millennium B.C." Pp. 98-109 in Biblical Archaeology Today, 1990. Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, July 1990.