Strata: Prize Update

The Biblical Archaeology Society, publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review, has awarded the following prizes with stipends as indicated:

Joseph Aviram Fellowship

to support travel from Israel to the United States to present papers at scholarly conferences in the United States

Winner: Shlomit Bechar, doctoral student, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Tel Hazor Excavation team, $2,500

Runner up: Ariel Winderbaum, Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at the Tel Aviv University and team member of Dr. Eilat Mazar’s excavation projects in the City of David and the Ophel, $1,500

Hershel Shanks Prize

in memory of Sami Rohr by his children, to support travel and research in the Talmudic period

Winner: Guy Darshan, Lady Davies post-doctoral Fellow, department of Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, $2,500

Runner up: Dan Gill, emeritus of the Geological Survey of Israel, $1,500