Shimon Apple Tree

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Erik Shimon Applebaum , Hebrew אריק שמעון אפלבאום Eriq Šimʿon Apelbaum orשמעון אפלבוים Šimʿon Apelboim (born April 21, 1911 in Liverpool , died August 21, 2008 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli archaeologist. From 1965 to 1982 he was Professor of Classical Archeology and Jewish History at Tel Aviv University .

Shimon Applebaum attended Leighton Park School in Reading and studied from 1928 to 1931 at Brasenose College of the University of Oxford . In 1939 he emigrated to Israel and was one of the founding members of Kibbutz Kfar Blum . Interrupted by World War II , where he was the British Army served and the rank of sergeant for the antiquities of Cyrenaica was responsible, he obtained the Oxford Bachelor , 1951 he was with the work of Agriculture in Roman Britain doctorate . In the years 1961–1966 he directed the excavations of the theater in Beit Shean - at the time one of the largest excavations of classical archeology in Israel. In 1965 he was one of the founders of the Department of Classical Archeology at Tel Aviv University , where he taught as a professor until his retirement in the 1980s.

His main research interests included the Western Samaria Survey , the Bar Kochba uprising , to which his work Prolegomena to the Study of the Second Jewish Revolt (AD 132–135) was, and the Roman road network in Israel.

Publications (selection)

  • Agriculture in Roman Britain. In: The Agricultural History Review. Volume 6, Issue 2, 1958, pp. 66-86 (summary of the dissertation).
  • Prolegomena to the study of the Second Jewish Revolt (AD 132-135) (= BAR supplementary series. Volume 7). British Archaeological Reports, Oxford 1976.
  • Judaea as a Roman Province: The Countryside as a Political and Economic Factor In: Rise and Decline of the Roman World ii (1977), pp. 385–395.
  • Jews and Greeks in Ancient Cyrene (= Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity. Volume 28). Brill, Leiden 1979.
  • Judaea in Hellenistic and Roman Times: Historical and Archaeological Essays (= Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity. Volume 40). Brill, Leiden 1989.

literature

  • Shimon Dar: Shimon Appelbaum. 1911-2008. In: Qadmoniot: A Journal for the Antiquities of Eretz-Israel and Bible Lands. Volume 136, 2008, p. 136 (Hebrew).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shimon Applebaum (1911-2008). In: Bibliothéque nationale de France. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Applebaum, Shimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES שמעון אפלבאום (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2008
Place of death Tel Aviv