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The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 1

An interview with Moshe and Trude Dothan

By Hershel Shanks

They are the first family of Israeli archeology. Trude and Moshe Dothan each have more than four decades of experience in the field, having excavated such major sites as Hazor, Hammath Tiberius, Nahariya, Deir el-Balah, Akko, Ashdid and Ekron. In this first installment of a two-part interview with BAR editor Hershel Shanks, the Dothans reminisce about how they met; share their recollections of such towering figures as William Foxwell Albright, Yigael Yadin, Roland de Vaux and Kathleen Kenyon; and describe the emergence of modern Israeli archaeology—a field of study they very much helped to shape. Hershel Shanks: Something is […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, “Should the Term ‘Biblical Archaeology’ Be Abandoned?” BAR 07:03, and William G. Dever, “On Abandoning the Term ‘Biblical Archaeology,’”, Queries & Comments, BAR 07:05.

2.

Roland de Vaux Ancient Israel—Its life and Institutions ( London: Darton, Longman and Todd. Ltd.), 1961.

3.

Principal author of volume 1 of the final report on Kenyon’s Excavations in Jerusalem 1961–1967 (Royal Ontario Museum, 1985; reviewed in BAR 13:03). Tushingham was chief archaeologist of the Royal Ontario Museum.

4.

Volume five of the Ashdod final report is in press and volume six is in progress; the Nahariya report is in progress.—Ed.

5.

See Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, “Ekron of the Philistines,’ BAR 16:01 and “Ekron of the Philistines, Part II,” BAR 16:02.

6.

By Trude Dothan, with Baruch Brandl, Ann Killebrew, and Bonnie and Gary Gould, forthcoming in the Qedem series.