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Heyo
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How are your studies going? Are you going on a dig next semester?
Sure. He does need a hug from time to time, too. We're just too busy handling reports and such. *Hands over keys to the secret RF labyrinth*
School is fine, although I'm having difficulty deciding in what branch of archeology I would like to work in (for example, epigraphy, numismatics, etc).
And yes, next summer I will be going on another dig. I really want to get to finish the first square I worked on at Tel Tibneh where I excavated last summer, but I would also like to spend some time at another site that's being excavated by my department, called Tel Shush, currently identified with the Hellenistic/Roman city Gaba. And I still haven't decided how many weeks I want to excavate this year. Officially, I only need three more weeks for my excavator's license (but still many more courses...).
I don't think he was Elijah or something of the sort. I doubt he was related to Jesus. Other than that, I don't think about him too much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In terms of area, Israel is a very small country. And it seems to me as though it is fairly densely populated too.
Do you foresee a day when all of its archeology is exhausted, a time when there will be nowhere left to dig that hasn't been dug before, and nothing left to find?
Do you foresee a day when all of its archeology is exhausted, a time when there will be nowhere left to dig that hasn't been dug before, and nothing left to find?
Though there are large areas of Israel that have yet to be either excavated or developed for urbanization, this is likely to happen eventually. By then I hope we will be living in a geopolitical reality where we will be able to expand research into regions that were part of Ancient Israel, such as the other half of the Golan Heights, Transjordan, the Sinai Desert and elsewhere. After urbanization spreads to those regions - who knows?
What do you want to do once you have finished your current studies?
I'd like to work in the field of archeology, but I still don't know where or in what branch. On the where, it's either one of Israel's two antiquities departments (don't ask...or do, this is the right thread...
), a private excavations company or something in academia. On branches, there are different specialities - numismatics, epigraphy, papyrology, ceramics, etc, or being a kind of jack of all trades archeologist working as an antiquities inspector and area manager.
What archeological site would you like to study and to work on?
Outside of your country, I mean.
Outside of your country, I mean.
I would really like to dig in what is now Jordan. Places like Tel Hesban and Dibhan.What archeological site would you like to study and to work on?
But if I had to choose a field that has nothing to do with Jewish archeology, I think I'd go to Britain for some Celtic archeology. No particular site comes to mind. It'd be cool to find some more sites related to the culture that built Stonehenge.
I was more thinking along the lines of his being a reliably attested historical figure. What would you say is his place in Jewish thought, if any?
Unfortunately, the only sources that attest to his existence are secondhand or thirdhand (or worse) sources. Josephus was basing himself off of an unknown earlier source (perhaps Nicholas of Damascus?) and you know the issue with Christian sources...
So there's really not much to say about him.
It seems likely he was a real person, but I really can't say much on his theology or his place in Judaism. It's difficult to tell what sect he was part of, if any. One of the biggest mysteries in historical research is what contemporaries thought of figures we consider today to be important.
What would your best day ever be like?
This reminds of a certain Orthodox Israeli scholar who in my mind, has made mountains out of molehills. I will state upfront that I have not yet had a chance to look into his research extensively, and this is something I hope to do eventually. This is a scholar who has spent much paper and ink working hard on proving that Josephus very deceptively worked hard to destroy the image of the leaders of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans and this was enough to also convince the Jewish sages of later eras. For this reason, these men are depicted as mean sicarii in both sources, instead of mighty heroes.
My point here is that I hope I will not go that way as a historian. I do have some half-baked ideas of my own. No point in doing anything with them except some occasional RFian speculation, unless I get some stronger evidence.
Oh, that's a hard one. Dragon, devour @JustGeorge!
Kidding.
Setting aside days in the Jewish redemption era, the weather will be to my liking (the sun will be shining but it won't be hot. There'll be a nice breeze), XenForo will work perfectly for a change, and I will have made some kind of key breakthrough in my research and/or my personal Judaic studies.