Avraham Faust Avraham (Avi) Faust is the director of the Institute of Archaeology and is associate professor at the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. He participated in a number of excavations and surveys in Israel and abroad, and he has been directing the excavations at Tel Eton (commonly identified with Biblical Eglon) since 2006. Professor Faust is the author of several watershed studies, such as Israelite Society in the Period of the Monarchy: An Archaeological Perspective and The Archaeology of the Israelite Society in the Iron Age II (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, forthcoming) as well as numerous articles covering various aspects of Israel’s archaeology from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a special focus on Israelite society in the Iron Age. His recent book, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance (London: Equinox, 2006), is the winner of the Irene Levi Sala Prize for books on the Archaeology of Israel, ASOR’s G.E. Wright Book Award and the 2009 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication award.
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