Yohanan Aharoni

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Yohanan Aharoni (born June 7, 1919 in Frankfurt an der Oder ; † February 9, 1976 in Tel Aviv ; actually Yohanan Aronheim ) was an Israeli archaeologist .

Career

In 1933 Yohanan Aharoni emigrated from Nazi Germany to Palestine and became a founding member of Kibbutz Alonim, where he lived until 1947. From 1948 to 1950 he served in the Israel Defense Forces . In the newly established State of Israel, he began his archaeological career at the Department of Antiquities as an inspector for Galilean antiquities. In 1968 he went to Tel Aviv University with the rank of professor and also became chairman of the Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. In 1957 he discovered and examined the ruins of a fortress on the plateau east of En-Qudes . In 1962 he discovered the House of Yahweh in Tel Arad . From 1965 to 1971, he and one of his students, Volkmar Fritz , undertook excavations in Tel Arad, Lachisch and Tell es-Seba .

Publications

  • The Land of the Bible. Historical Geography , 1981
  • Carta Bible Atlas , 2002
  • with Michael Avi-Yonah : Macmillan Bible Atlas , 1993
  • Investigations at Lachish. The sanctuary and the residency , 1975
  • The Sanctuary of Beer-Sheva , 1975
  • Beer-Sheba I. Excavations at Tel Beer-Sheba , 1969–1971, 1973
  • The Arad Inscriptions , 1981
  • Hitnahlut Shivtei-Yisrael ba-Galil ha-'Eliyon (The Settlement of the Israelite Tribes in the Upper Galilee). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1957

literature

  • Bibliography in Tel Aviv 3 (1976), pp. 161-184 [ Errata and addenda in: Tel Aviv 4 (1977), p. 96.]
  • Othmar Keel: Yohanan Aharoni, 1919–1976: Life and work of a leading Israeli biblical writer and archaeologist. In: Judaica 32 (1976), pp. 70-75, 113-118.
  • Anson F. Rainey: In Memoriam: Yohanan Aharoni. In: The Biblical Archaeologist 39/2 (1976), pp. 53-54 [1]
  • Anson F. Rainey: Yohanan Aharoni, the Man and his Work. In: Biblical Archeology Review 2 (1976), pp. 39-40, 48.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=21663
  2. ↑ http://www.aegyptologie.com/forum/attachments/Kadesch-Barnea.pdf
  3. ↑ Ulrich Hübner:  FRITZ, Volkmar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 450-453.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Aharoni, Yohanan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt on the Oder , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1976
Place of death Tel Aviv