Seymour Gitin

Seymour Gitin is the Director Emeritus of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. For 14 seasons he co-directed, with Trude Dothan, the excavations at Tel Miqne (Biblical Ekron). Symbiosis, Symbolism and the Power of the Past (Eisenbrauns, 2003), which Gitin co-edited with William G. Dever, received the Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award for best book relating to the Old Testament published in 2003–2004.