Avraham Faust is an Israeli archaeologist and professor at Bar-Ilan University. He directs excavations at Tel Eton, widely regarded as the probable site of biblical Eglon.
Selected publications
- The Israelite Society in the Period of the Monarchy: an Archaeological Perspective (2005) (in Hebrew)
- Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance (2006) (Irene Levi-Sala Prize in the Archaeology of Israel 2008; G. Ernest Wright Book Award of the American School of Oriental Research; Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award (2009)
- The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II (2012)
- Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation (2012)
- with Safrai, Z. The Settlement History of Ancient Israel: A Quantitative Analysis (2015)
- The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and its Consequences (2021)
References
- *Blakely, Jeffrey A.; Horton, Fred L. (2001). "On Site Identifications Old and New: The Example of Tell el-Hesi". Near Eastern Archaeology. 64 (1/2): 32-33. doi:10.2307/3210818. JSTOR 3210818.
- "Proof of King David? Not yet. But riveting site shores up roots of Israelite era". Times of Israel. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
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