The Division for Development and Public Relations     YORAM  TSAFRIR,  PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ARCHAEOLOGY  Status : EMERITUS Birth place : KFAR AZAR Office Phone: 02-588-2417 Fax: E-Mail: U.R.L:   Department Faculty   INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1976   Academic Position   Year EMERITUS 2006 PROFESSOR 1987 ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1981 SENIOR LECTURER 1978 LECTURER 1976   Administrative Position   From To Head, Inst. of Archaeology 1989 1992 Director, Jewish National and University Library. 2001 2007   External Academic Positions Visiting Fellow: Harvard Univ., Dumbarton Oaks, Washington - DC Memberships and Fellowships: Member, Isr. Acad. Sci. & Humanities, since 2001; Archaeolgical Council, since 1976 Foreign Vice-Pres., Harvard Univ.- Dumbarton Oaks Alumni   Research Interests Archaeology and history of Palestine in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods; historical geography of Palestine in those periods.   Research Projects Onomasticon of Judaea, Palaestina and Arabia in Greek and Roman Excavations of Bet Shean (Scythopolis); publication of the final Onomasticon of Eretz Israel: Excavations at Rehovot-in-the-Negev: (with Prof. K.G. Holum, Univ. of Excavations of Roman, Byzantine and Early Arab Bet Shean   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year Sefer Yerushalaim [The History of Jerusalem] - The Roman and 1999 A statue of Dionysos as a youth recently discovered at Bet 1990 The date of the "earthquake of the sabbatical year." 1989 Aila (Eilat) and its gulf in Greek and Roman sources. 1989 The date of the "earthquake of the sabbatical year." 1989 The synagogue at Meroth, the synagogue at Capernaum and the 1989 Christian archaeology in Israel in recent years. 1989 The Bet Shean Project. 1988 The Bet Shean project. 1988 Jews, Samaritans and Christians in Byzantine Palestine. 1988 An annotated map of Byzantine settlements in Israel - State of 1988 Further evidence of the cult of Zeus Akraios at Bet Shean. 1988 Rehovot-in-the-Negev: Preliminary report, 1986. 1988 Excavations at Rehovot-in-the-Negev. Vol. 1988 The Byzantine setting and its influence on ancient synagogues. 1987 The Bet Shean Project. 1987 The Bet Shean project. 1987 Nysa-Scythopolis - A new inscription and the titles of the city 1986 Nysa-Scythopolis - A new inscription and the titles of the city 1986   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem