Dr. Yonatan Adler is an Associate Professor at the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Ariel University (West Bank). He also heads the university’s Institute of Archaeology. Adler studied at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav, where he received rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. in archaeology from Bar-Ilan University. He was appointed in 2018 by the Minister of Culture to serve as a member of the Israeli Council for Archaeology. Adler is author of the book The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal.
— TheTorah.com
Quote: “Adler examined artifacts from dozens of excavations in the Levant, as well as ancient texts, including the Bible, to determine how people behaved in the centuries before the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 C.E. He makes a good case that is certainly worth considering seriously,” says Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with extensive experience excavating in Israel. Harald Samuel, a classical Hebrew expert at the University of Oxford in England, says, “Adler’s work is absolutely solid.”
— SmithsonianMag.com
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