Amihai "Ami" Mazar (Hebrew: עמיחי מזר; born November 19, 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine), he has been since 1994 a professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel.
His Archaeology of the Land of the Bible is a widely used textbook for Israelite archaeology in universities.[1]
Mazar's work has resulted in the Modified Conventional Chronology being the most widely accepted framework for the Israelite chronology during the Iron Age period.[2]
Mazar is married with three children and resides in Jerusalem. He is the nephew of Benjamin Mazar, one of the first generation of pioneering Israeli archaeologists after Independence, and cousin to the late archaeologist Eilat Mazar.
^Dever, William G. "Archaeology, Ideology, and the Quest for an 'Ancient' or 'Biblical' Israel", Near Eastern Archaeology (1998), pg. 42
Amihai "Ami" Mazar (Hebrew: עמיחי מזר; born November 19, 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine)...
president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the second cousin of AmihaiMazar, a professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University as well. She obtained...
part of the same structure received a detailed response by AmihaiMazar. Agreeing with Mazar, Avraham Faust noted that Herzog's paper was written prior...
conducted for 11 seasons between 1997 and 2012 under the directorship of AmihaiMazar, Professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University in...
‘blessing’, or ‘gratis’. Benjamin Mazar's son Ory Mazar, grandchildren Eilat Mazar and Dan Mazar and nephew AmihaiMazar all played an important role in...
site was uncovered through 1977–1989, in 12 seasons of excavations, by AmihaiMazar and George L. Kelm while Kelm was serving as professor of Biblical backgrounds...
capital, and Ussishkin argues that the city was entirely uninhabited. AmihaiMazar contends that if the Iron I/Iron IIa dating of administrative structures...
Israel and the surrounding areas. The editors-in-chief are Shmuel Ahituv, AmihaiMazar, and Z. Weiss. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities...
arranged in a haphazard fashion that didn't match the published drawings. AmihaiMazar identified the object as a sinker used in fishing nets. Naama Yahalom-Mack...
Israelite epigraphy, and, increasingly, stratigraphy". Archaeologist AmihaiMazar calls the tensions between Assyria and Judah "one of the best-documented...
dating from around 3,000 years ago. Hebrew University archaeologist AmihaiMazar said that the inscription was "proto-Canaanite" but cautioned that "[t]he...
Israel, noted critic of Finkelstein's Low Chronology AmihaiMazar (1942–present) Nephew of Benjamin Mazar, noted for his Modified Conventional Chronology,...
urbanized Samaria, capital of Israel during the 9th century BCE. In 2010, AmihaiMazar wrote that the United Monarchy of the 10th century BCE can be described...
capital, and Ussishkin argues that the city was entirely uninhabited. AmihaiMazar contends that if the Iron I/Iron IIa dating of administrative structures...
excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008. Hebrew University archaeologist AmihaiMazar said the inscription was the longest Proto-Canaanite text ever found...
History of Early Israel, Atlanta 2007, ISBN 978-1-58983-277-0 (with AmihaiMazar) Un archéologue au pays de la Bible, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-227-47521-2...
advanced by AmihaiMazar in a 2013 essay, which points toward recent archaeological evidence emerging from excavation sites in Jerusalem by Eilat Mazar and in...
biblical maximalists and centrists (Kenneth Kitchen, William G. Dever, AmihaiMazar, Baruch Halpern and others) argue that the biblical account is more or...
came from the landmark excavations at Timnah led by George L. Kelm and AmihaiMazar. Several hundred seal impressions made on the same type of jar handle...
archaeologist AmihaiMazar who arranged its transfer to the Israel Museum where it is now part of the permanent collection. Based on Broshi's description Mazar was...
Archaeologists: Ruth Amiran, Trude Dothan, Aren Maeir, AmihaiMazar, Benjamin Mazar, Eilat Mazar, Yigael Yadin Astronomers: David H. Levy Biology and biochemistry:...
Israelite and Philistine character by archaeologists Yigael Yadin and AmihaiMazar. It fell victim to fire, when the earliest fragmentary Gate 3165 from...
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