AIA Lecturer: Jodi Magness

Lectures by Jodi Magness

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jodi Magness is with the Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. She holds her degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.), and her areas of expertise are the archaeology of Palestine in the Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic Periods, ancient pottery, ancient  synagogues, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Roman army in the East. Professor Magness is currently the Co-Director of excavations at the Roman fort site of Yotvata, Israel and has also worked at Khirbet Yattir and Masada in Israel, Caesarea Maritima, the Athenian Agora, and ancient Corinth, Greece.  She has published widely, and was the recipient of the 2008 AIA Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
 
A course by Jodi Magness, "The Holy Land Revealed" is available on DVD through The Teaching Company's Great Courses at http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=6220
 

See Jodi Magness's work in the American Journal of Archaeology:

• The Date of the Sardis Synagogue in Light of the Numismatic Evidence

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