Four books were awarded prestigious prizes at the 2012 Irene Levi-Sala Annual Research Seminar in March in Beer Sheva, Israel. BAR readers will recognize many of the authors as frequent contributors of articles and reviews. Two of the four prize books were published by the Israel Exploration Society, also a friend of BAR. The Irene Levi-Sala Book Prizes are given “to encourage and reward high-quality publications, both scholarly and popular, on the archaeology of Israel against the wider context of Near Eastern history and archaeology.” Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master and J. David Schloen of the Leon Levy […]
