She will present a lecture on the "Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls" on Thursday, February 12, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at the UAB Alumni House. She is an archaeologist and the First Vice-President of the Archaeological Institute of America. She has published 10 books, including The Archaeology of the Holy Land, and dozens of articles. A reception before the lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. and all are invited to attend. For more information call (205) 934-5634.
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She received her BA in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977), and her PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989). From 1990–92, Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.
Professor Magness specializes in the archaeology of ancient Palestine (modern Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories) in the Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods. Her research interests include Jerusalem, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient synagogues, Masada, the Roman army in the East, and ancient pottery.
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"And really by luck we came down right on the eastern wall of the synagogue in that very first sounding that we made." The 5th century synagogue is located in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel's Lower Galilee.