1st Edition
The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology Between Hegemony and Marginalization
Biography
Hayah Katz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Kinneret College. Her main field of expertise is biblical archaeology. Another research focus is the historiography of archaeological research in the Land of Israel from the 1920s until modern times. As part of this research, she has written the biography of Ruth Amiran.
"Hayah Katz’s book The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology is an original study, which includes a number of 'firsts' in terms of subjects. It treats expertly the secular archaeology of the establishment and the Academy in the first decades of Israel, and the responses to it by the religious Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli communities. The discussion of women in Israeli archaeology is a bonus. The author is a religious, open-minded archaeologist, and her writing expresses clarity and empathy."
Raz Kletter, Docent for Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Helsinki
