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Jennie Ebeling

Assistant Professor of Archaeology

Department of Archaeology and Art History, University of Evansville

It's always Passover at the New Holy Land in Eureka Springs, Arkansas!

Office: 410 Olmsted

Department of Archaeology and Art History

University of Evansville

1800 Lincoln Avenue

Evansville, IN 47722

Office Phone: 812 488-1019

Email: je55@evansville.edu

Courses Taught:

ARCH 192: Freshman Archaeology Seminar

ARCH 206: Introduction to Near Eastern Archaeology

ARCH 207: Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology

ARCH 311: Syro-Palestinian Archaeology

ARCH 400 (senior seminar): Archaeological Method and Theory

ARCH 415: Women in Antiquity

ARCH 492 (seminar): Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Ancient Israel ARCH 492 (seminar): Ancient Technology ARCH 492 (seminar): Food and Drink in Antiquity

World Cultures 110, 120

Education

Ph.D. 2001, Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona. Dissertation Title: Utilitarian Objects in Sacred Spaces: Ground Stone Tools in Middle and Late Bronze Age Temples in the Southern Levant. Dissertation Advisor: W.G. Dever.

M.A., 1998, Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona.

B.A. 1994, Anthropology and Religion, Rutgers University; Henry Rutgers Scholar 1993-94; Junior Year Abroad, Haifa University, Israel, 1992-93.

Research Interests:

Archaeology of Syro-Palestine, Ground Stone Artifact Analysis, Religion and Cult in Bronze Age Palestine, Women in the Ancient Near East

Archaeological Experience:

Assistant Area Supervisor; Excavator, Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin, Israel http://unixware.mscc.huji.ac.il/~hatsor/hazor.html

Ground Stone Artifact Specialist for excavations in Israel dating from the Neolithic through the Islamic period

Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications and Conference Presentations:

nd New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts. Edited by Y.M. Rowan and J.R. Ebeling. Equinox.

forth Brewing Beer as Women's Technology in Ancient Israel. In The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East,

ed. B.A. Nakhai. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press (with M.M. Homan).

2005 Beer, Women, and Archaeology: Alcoholic Revelations About Gender, Domestic Space, Daily Life, Cult, and Socio-Economics in Ancient

Syria-Palestine. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of ASOR, Philadelphia, PA. November 2005 (with M.M. Homan).

2004 The Archaeology of the Daily Grind: Ground Stone Tools and Food Production in the Southern Levant. Near Eastern Archaeology 67/2 (with Y.M. Rowan).

2003 Basalt Bowl Production at Tel Hazor. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of ASOR, Atlanta, GA. November 2003.

2003 Archaeological Remains of Everyday Activities: Ground Stone Tools in Iron Age Palestine. In Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East, eds. R.E. Averbeck, M.W. Chavalas, and D.B. Weisberg. Bethesda, MD: CDL.

2003 Women, Bread, and the Domestic Cult in Iron Age Israel. Paper presented at the Central States Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), and National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR), St. Louis, MO. April 2003.

2002 Bread Making as Women’s Technology in Ancient Israel. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of ASOR, Boulder, CO. November 2002.

2002 Why are Ground Stone Tools Found in Middle and Late Bronze Age Burials? Near Eastern Archaeology 65/2.

2002 Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Hazor: Answering Longstanding Questions, and Asking New Ones. The Bible and Interpretation. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Hazor_Ebeling.htm