Faculty
Liebowitz, Harold A.
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research interests:
Archaeology and art history of the land of Israel in the Biblical and Greco-Roman periods; art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East with particular emphasis on the Late Bronze to Mamluk Periods in Israel, Jordan, and Syria; daily life in Ancient Israel; material culture and literature of the period of the Mishnah and Talmud; medieval Jewish illuminated manuscripts from Spain, and Old Testament narrative painting from the Byzantine period until the Renaissance
Courses taught:
Biblical history and archaeology, history and archaeology of Judaism and Jews in the Biblical and Graeco-Roman period, Jewish ethics, Near Eastern and Western Art
Recent Publications:
"Excavations at Tel Yin'am 1975-1989. Tel Yin'am I: The Late Bronze Age,"
published in Studies in Archaeology, Texas Archaeological Research
Laboratory, 2003, The University of Texas at Austin.
With Anne M.
Dehnisch, "A Unique Worked Stone Mortar from Tel Yin'am," Levant,
32 (2000) 135-140.
"Two Metal Figurines from Middle Bronze II Tel
Yin'am," Israel Exploration Journal, 49 (1999) 55-65.
With Anne M. Dehnisch, "A Mould-Made Seated Terra-Cotta Cat from Khirbet Beth
Gan," Israel Exploration Journal 48(1998) 174-182.
With P. Porat, "Early Bronze IV Tombs at Yavnei'el," Atiqot 21 (1992):
1-7.
Research interests:
Archaeology and art history of the land of Israel in the Biblical and Greco-Roman periods; art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East with particular emphasis on the Late Bronze to Mamluk Periods in Israel, Jordan, and Syria; daily life in Ancient Israel; material culture and literature of the period of the Mishnah and Talmud; medieval Jewish illuminated manuscripts from Spain, and Old Testament narrative painting from the Byzantine period until the Renaissance
Courses taught:
Biblical history and archaeology, history and archaeology of Judaism and Jews in the Biblical and Graeco-Roman period, Jewish ethics, Near Eastern and Western Art
Recent Publications:
"Excavations at Tel Yin'am 1975-1989. Tel Yin'am I: The Late Bronze Age,"
published in Studies in Archaeology, Texas Archaeological Research
Laboratory, 2003, The University of Texas at Austin.
With Anne M.
Dehnisch, "A Unique Worked Stone Mortar from Tel Yin'am," Levant,
32 (2000) 135-140.
"Two Metal Figurines from Middle Bronze II Tel
Yin'am," Israel Exploration Journal, 49 (1999) 55-65.
With Anne M. Dehnisch, "A Mould-Made Seated Terra-Cotta Cat from Khirbet Beth
Gan," Israel Exploration Journal 48(1998) 174-182.
With P. Porat, "Early Bronze IV Tombs at Yavnei'el," Atiqot 21 (1992):
1-7.