Fields
Ancient Judaism; Religion and Material Culture; Archaeology of Israel-Palestine in the Greco-Roman Period; Second Temple Jerusalem
Teaching
Myth in the Ancient Near East; Israel in the Biblical Age; Archaeology of Israel-Palestine; History of God; Jerusalem: History and Imagination; Religion and Sports
Education & Training
PhD, Duke University, 2013
MA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008
BA, College of William and Mary, 1999
“Judean Social Classes.” In Behind the Scenes of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts, edited by Bruce W. Longenecker, Elizabeth E. Shively, and T. J. Lang. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 195–202 (2024).
“The Festival City: Jerusalem after Herod’s Games in Honor of Augustus.” In Eretz Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies, Vol. 35: Hillel Geva Volume, edited by Oren Gutfeld, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, Amihai Mazar, and Orit Peleg-Barkat. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 69*–78* (2024).
“Royal Benefaction and Ritual Agency at the Jerusalem Temple in the Late Hellenistic Period.” Biblische Notizen 200:51–75 (2024).
“The Archaeology of the Second Temple Period in Judea: New Discoveries and Research.” In Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods, edited by Carl S. Ehrlich and Sara R. Horowitz. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 123–148 (2023).
“Archaeology.” In The Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice, edited by Oliver Leaman. London; New York: Routledge, 59–70 (2022).
“Health and the Origins of the Miqveh.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 11:418–459 (2020).
Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism. Studia Judaica 87. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2020).
“Sightseeing and Spectacle at the Jewish Temple.” AJS Review 43/2:271–292 (2019).
“Samuel and Saul at Gilgal: A New Interpretation of the Elephant Mosaic Panel at the Late Antique Synagogue of Huqoq, Israel.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 31/2:524–541. With Zeev Weiss (2018).
The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Artifacts of the Western Summit of Sepphoris. Duke Sepphoris Excavations 3 (2 vols.). University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. Co-edited with Eric M. Meyers and Carol L. Meyers (2018).