Rafi Greenberg

Rafi Greenberg (Rafael) is a senior lecturer in archaeology at Tel Aviv University. [ [http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/directory/dir_rafi_greenberg.html Department of Archaeology - Dr. Rafi Greenberg ] ]

Ph.D. - Hebrew University, 1997M.A. - Hebrew University, 1987B.A. - Hebrew University, 1981

Greenberg is the leading critic of the archaeological digs now underway at the Ophel, in Jerusalem. [ [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7140/full/447022a.html Access : : Nature ] ] [ [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-02-10-jerusalem_N.htm Politics, archaeology collide beneath Jerusalem - USATODAY.com ] ] [ www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;315/5812/588 ]

Greenberg founded an organization called :An Alternative Archaeological Tour of Ancient Jerusalem, to present his views of the ancient finds in the area of the Ophel. [ [http://www.alt-arch.org/contact.html From Shiloah to Silwan - An Alternative Archaeological Tour of Ancient Jerusalem ] ] He explained to a reporter that "Archeology is all about interpretation. The findings don't speak for themselves, archeologists speak for them." [ [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204214000979&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Digging too deep? | Jerusalem Post ] ]

Current Archaeological Projects

* Tel Bet Yerah Research and Excavation Project (TBYREP)
* Rogem Ganim Project in Community Archaeology

Books

* A. Biran, D. Ilan and R. Greenberg. Dan I. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College, 1996. 329 pp.; Part II: A. Gopher and R. Greenberg. The Pottery Neolithic Levels (pp. 65-81); Part III: R. Greenberg. The Early Bronze Age Levels (pp. 83-160).

* E. Eisenberg, A. Gopher, and R. Greenberg. Tel Te'o - A Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age Site in The Hula Valley. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 13. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2001. 227 pp.

* R. Greenberg. Early Urbanizations in the Levant: A Regional Narrative. New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology. London: Leicester University Press, 2002. xii + 141 pp.

* R. Greenberg, E. Eisenberg, S. Paz and Y. Paz. Bet Yerah - The Early Bronze Age Mound: Vol. I - Excavation Reports 1933-1986. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 30. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006.

elected Recent Articles

Stamped and Incised Jar Handles from Rogem Ganim, and Their Implications for the Political Economy of Jerusalem, Late 8th-Early 4th Centuries B.C.E. Tel Aviv. (with G. Cinamon).

What's Cooking in EB II? In P. de Miroschedji and A. Maeir eds. I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times: Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Winona Lake, 2006.

Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age of Israel/Palestine. In S. Gitin et al. eds. W.G. Dever Fetschrift. (with S. Bunimovitz).

Notes on the Early Bronze Age Pottery: The 1998-2000 Seasons. In I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern eds. Megiddo IV. Tel Aviv, 2006. pp. 151-167.

The Early Bronze Age Fortifications of Tel Bet Yerah. Levant 37 (2005): 81-103 (with Y. Paz).

An EB IA-EB III Stratigraphic Sequence from the 1946 Excavations at Tel Bet Yerah. Israel Exploration Journal 54 (2004): 1-23 (with S. Paz).

Revealed in Their Cups: Syrian Drinking Practices in Intermediate Bronze Age Canaan. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 334 (2004): 19-32 (with S. Bunimovitz).

Early Bronze Age Megiddo and Bet Shean: Discontinuous Settlement in Socio-Political Context. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16 (2003): 17-32.

Discontinuities in Rural Settlement, Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age I. In A. Maeir, S. Dar and Z. Safrai eds. The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2003. pp. 27-42.

Egypt, Bet Yerah, and Early Canaanite Urbanization. In E.C.M. van den Brink and T.E. Levy eds. Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction: From the 4th through Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E. (New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology). London: Leicester University Press, 2002. pp. 213-222 (with E. Eisenberg).

Archaeological Public Policy in Israel. In D. Korn ed. Public Policy in Israel: Perspectives and Practices. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. pp. 191-203 (with A. Gopher and Z. Herzog).

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