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From Vespa to Ashkelon

BAR Interviews Lawrence Stager

Lawrence Stager is the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel at Harvard University and director of its Semitic Museum. Since 1985 he has led the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. Professor Stager sat down with BAR editor Hershel Shanks to talk about how the field has changed over the past 35 years and what the future holds for Biblical archaeology. Hershel Shanks: You and I go back to the early 1970s, Larry. When I first met you, you were riding a motorcycle around Jerusalem. Lawrence Stager: It was a motor scooter—a little thing called a Vespa. When did […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Lawrence E. Stager, “The Song of Deborah: Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not,” BAR 15:01.

2.

See Lawrence E. Stager, “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02; “Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?” BAR 17:03; “Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon,” BAR 17:04.

3.

See Edwin M. Yamauchi, “Historic Homer—Did It Happen?” BAR 33:02.

4.

See Hershel Shanks, “Radiocarbon Dating,” BAR 31:01.

5.

See Hershel Shanks, “Magnificent Obsession: The Private World of an Antiquities Collector,” BAR 22:03.

6.

See Lawrence E. Stager, “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02.

Endnotes

1.

See Lawrence E. Stager, J. David Schloen and Daniel M. Master, eds., Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview (1985–2006), The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008), pp. 541–568.

2.

See “Archaeology, Ecology, and Social History: Background Themes to the Song of Deborah,” in J.A. Emerton, ed., Congress Volume: Jerusalem, 1986, Vetus Testamentum Supplement 40 (London: Bell, 1988), pp. 221–234; “Yigael Yadin and Biblical Archaeology,” in Joseph Aviram, ed., In Memory of Yigael Yadin, 1917–1984: Lectures Presented at the Symposium on the Twentieth Anniversary of His Death (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2006), pp. 13–27.

3.

See Stager, Schloen and Master, Ashkelon 1, pp. 215–323; Lawrence E. Stager, Ashkelon Discovered: From Canaanites and Philistines to Romans and Moslems (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991); Lawrence E. Stager, “Ashkelon,” in Ephraim Stern, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (NEAEHL), vol. 1 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993 [English]), pp. 103–112; “Ashkelon,” in Ephraim Stern, ed., NEAEHL, vol. 5, Supplementary Volume (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2008), pp. 1578–1586.

4.

“Yigael Yadin and Biblical Archaeology,” pp. 13–27; Joachin Latacz, Troy and Homer (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004).

5.

Stager, “Phoenician Shipwrecks and the Ship Tyre (Ezekiel 27),” in John Pollini, ed., Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann (Oxford: Oxbow, 2005), pp. 238–254.

6.

Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager, Life in Biblical Israel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001), pp. 302–314.