Aviram Fellowship Brings Israeli Scholars to U.S. Conferences

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The Biblical Archaeology Society is now accepting applications for the 2013 Joseph Aviram Fellowship. The fellowship brings Israeli scholars to the United States to participate in the annual scholarly meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), held in the same city every November. The 2013 meetings will be in Baltimore. The fellowship’s stipend of $2,500 is intended to cover the cost of the winner’s travel expenses.

The fellowship honors Joseph Aviram of the Israel Exploration Society (IES). Aviram, at age 95, remains president of the IES. He has been associated with the society for more than 70 years and, as director, oversaw the publication of countless excavation reports, encyclopedias and journals on the archaeology of Israel. He also participated in important excavations and offers sage, conciliatory advice to generations of sometimes-contentious Israeli archaeologists.

The 2012 fellowship was awarded to Uri Davidovich, a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who presented two papers at the ASOR conference. The first, “Unraveling the Mystery of Mt. Nitai Fortification: The Stronghold of Khirbet Hamam,” suggested that the well-fortified wall and cave shelters of Mt. Nitai served as a “last stand” for Khirbet Hamam’s residents during the First and 022 Second Jewish Revolts against Rome. The second paper, “The Proto-history of Natural Caves in the Western Central Highlands, Southern Levant,” which Davidovich coauthored with Hebrew University geographer (and BAR author) Amos Frumkin, explored the evidence of early human occupation in several caves of the southern Levant.

Three Joseph Aviram travel grants of $1,000 each were also awarded to Filip Vukosavovic of the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Boaz Stavi of Tel Aviv University and Michael Freikman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Applications for the Joseph Aviram Fellowship should be submitted to the Biblical Archaeology Society, publisher of BAR, by June 1, 2013, and should include a curriculum vitae and a brief description of the subject of the paper, as well as an indication of past presentations at these meetings. Preference will be given to first- or second-time presenters. Joint applications by two or three presenters are accepted; if awarded, the presenters will split the stipend.

Applications may be e-mailed to bas@bib-arch.org with “Aviram Fellowship” in the subject line or mailed to:

The Biblical Archaeology Society is now accepting applications for the 2013 Joseph Aviram Fellowship. The fellowship brings Israeli scholars to the United States to participate in the annual scholarly meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), held in the same city every November. The 2013 meetings will be in Baltimore. The fellowship’s stipend of $2,500 is intended to cover the cost of the winner’s travel expenses. The fellowship honors Joseph Aviram of the Israel Exploration Society (IES). Aviram, at age 95, remains president of the IES. He has been associated […]