Position:

 

Faculty / College Address:

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Email:

garth.gilmour@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Archaeology of early Israelite religion
• Eastern Mediterranean trade in the Late Bronze Age
• The archaeology of Jerusalem

Current Projects:

(i) Gezer VI: The Objects from Phase I and Phase II. A volume in the Tel Gezer Excavations Series, to be published in 2006 by the Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem. The publication of several thousand objects excavated during the eleven years of the Tell Gezer field project (1964-1974), sponsored by the Hebrew Union College and the Harvard Semitic Museum.
(ii) Final Report of the Palestine Exploration Fund Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem, from 1923 to 1925.

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Israel: the Iron Age (1200-332 B.C.E.) [M.St. course]

Recent Publications:

• forthcoming:"A Late Iron Age Cult Stand from Gezer." Festschrift in Honor of Seymour Gitin, Presented by the Fellows of the W.F. Albright Institute. American Schools of Oriental Research
• forthcoming: Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations, 1990-1996, Field INW/SW: The Summit of the Northeast Acropolis, Late Bronze Agean Iron Age II, by S. Gitin and T. Dothan. Ekron Final Field Report Series 12. (Contributor)
• 2009: “An Iron Age II Pictorial Inscription from Jerusalem 
  Illustrating Yahweh and Asherah.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 141, 2,
  87–103
• 2005: Book Review: A.G. Vaughn and A.E. Killebrew (editors) Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (Leiden, 2003). Near Eastern Archaeology 68(4): 197-199
• 2005: "Dan", "Hazor", "Megiddo"', "Shechem" and "Shiloh". In H. G. M. Williamson and Bill T. Arnold (editors) Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Downers Grove, Ill., InterVarsity Press
• 2005: "Archaeology, Modern Israel", "Mazar, Benjamin" and 16 other entries in G. Abramson (editor) Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture. London and New York, Routledge
• 2002: "Foreign Burials in Late Bronze Age Palestine." Near Eastern Archaeology 65.2, June 2002, 112-119
• 2002: "The United Kingdom in Israel in the Light of Archaeology." Parts 1 and 2. Tel 13 (1), 3-9 and 13 (2), 3-10 (in Danish)
• 2000: "The Archaeology of Cult in the Period of the Judges: Theory and Practice." Old Testament Essays 13 (3), 283-292

Further Info:

• Administrator, European Association for Jewish Studies