National Lecture Program

AIA Lecturer: Beth Alpert Nakhai

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Beth Alpert Nakhai is with the University of Arizona’s Center for Judaic Studies, and holds her degrees from Connecticut College, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Arizona (Ph.D.).  Her specializations include the lives of women in antiquity, and the archaeology of Canaanite and Israelite religion and culture.  She has published widely, and her works in progress include Work Hard, Die Young: Women in Iron Age Israel.   Since 1985, Professor Alpert Nakhai has been Co-Director of the Tell el-Wawiyat excavation in Israel.

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