Friends of ASOR presents a webinar symposium on February 10, 2022 from 12:00pm to 4:00pm EST, “Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley,” featuring Prof. Amihai Mazar, Dr. Nava Panitz-Cohen, Prof. Nota Kourou, Prof. Naama Yahalom-Mack, and Prof. Robert Mullins. This special event will showcase the newly published findings from the site of Tel Rehov in Israel. The program will include 7 unique lectures covering such topics as the primary results from the site, the publication of the excavations, the Iron Age apiary, Tel Rehov in its Biblical historical context, Greek pottery from the site, the 8th century BCE Assyrian conquest, and metal-working. Each 20 minute lecture will be followed by Q&A with the audience and discussion among these distinguished panelists. Join us for an afternoon of exploration and celebration of years of work at this important site. The full program is below. The event will be recorded.

ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $25 | Public: $50

Program Schedule

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $25 | Public: $50

To receive your ASOR member discount, log into the online store. If you are new to ASOR, please click on the “New Visitor Registration” link to register your e-mail address and choose password for our online store. Once logged in, navigate to “Meeting and Event Registration” to register for the symposium and pay the fee. Each paid registrant will receive a confirmation e-mail when you pay for the event. If you do not receive this e-mail, then you are not registered. Please e-mail membership@asor.org with any questions or issues with registering.

You will be e-mailed the Zoom Webinar link in the week prior to the symposium on February 10. If you do not receive the link by the close of business on the Tuesday before the event, please e-mail membership@asor.org immediately. This event will be recorded and all paid registrants will be sent a link to view the recording.

All proceeds from this symposium are used to fund scholarships for members impacted by COVID-19 as well as increasing ASOR’s online resources, which are free to the public.

Nota Kourou is Professor Emerita, Athens University, Greece. She studied Archaeology at Athens University (BA) and continued for her Ph.D at Oxford University, (Somerville College 1974-1979). She taught first as a lecturer and later became a Professor at Athens University from 1979-2012. In 2013, she became a Visiting Professor at Brussells University (ULB). Kourou has lectured at several Universities in the United States, Australia, and Europe, and was an Onassis Senior Lecturer in the United States in 2005. She participated in various excavations in Greece and has directed the Athens University Excavation at Xobourgo on Tenos, Cyclades since 1995, which has revealed a major island settlement.

Amihai Mazar is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of interest are the archaeology of the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages and the relationship between archaeology and biblical history. He directed large-scale archaeological excavations at Tell Qasile (1973–1974, 1982–1988), Tel Batash (biblical Timnah) (1977–1989), Tel Beth Shean (1989–1996), and Tel Reḥov (1997–2012), as well as several smaller-scale projects. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, and fourteen volumes of final archaeological field reports. Mazar is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and laureate of the Israel Prize for archaeological research.

Robert Mullins is Professor and Chair in the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Azusa Pacific University. He received his Ph.D from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to joining the faculty of APU, he served as a research assistant to Prof. Amihai Mazar and the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project. In addition to his work at Beth-Shean, Rehov, and Gezer, Mullins has also excavated at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) and Zincirli (Sam’al) in southeastern Turkey. He currently co-directs joint excavations at Tel Abel Beth Maacah with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include the Atlas of the Biblical World (Fortress Press, 2019).

Nava Panitz-Cohen is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where earned her Ph.D, and is now an adjunct instructor and editor of the Qedem Monograph Series of the Institute. Her field work included Tel Batash, Tel Beth-Shean and Tel Rehov, and she participated in the publication of these sites. She is currently co-director of excavations at Tel Abel Beth Maacah in the Hula Valley in northern Israel alongside Naama Yahlom-Mack and Robert Mullins. Her research interests include Bronze and Iron Age ceramics, ceramic technology, household, gender, and experimental archaeology.

Naama Yahalom-Mack is an associate professor of Bronze and Iron Age archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is head of the Institute’s Laboratory for Archaeological Materials and Ancient Technologies. She is currently co-director of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah excavations in the Hula Valley. Her research focuses on archaeometallurgy and on the provenancing of archaeological materials as a proxy for reconstructing ancient trade and economic interaction.