The Road Taken : : An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible / / Seymour (Sy) Gitin.
In this fascinating book, Seymour (Sy) Gitin recounts his life’s journey, from his childhood in 1940s Buffalo, New York, to a storied career as an archaeologist working and living in Israel.Over the course of his life, Sy served as a rabbi in Los Angeles and as US Air Force Chaplain, starred in an I...
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Gitin, Seymour (Sy), author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Road Taken : An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible / Seymour (Sy) Gitin. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (256 p.) : 46 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Early Years, 1936–1956 -- 2. Rabbinic Studies in Cincinnati and Israel, 1956–1962 -- 3. Into the Real World: The Military and Civilian Rabbinate, 1962–1967 -- 4. A New Direction, 1967–1970: The Road to Archaeological Studies -- 5. Doctoral Studies and Excavations in Israel, 1970–1979 -- 6. Albright Institute: A New Beginning and a Vision for the Future, 1979– -- 7. Albright Institute: First Decade, 1980–1989 -- 8. Albright Institute: Second Decade, 1990–1999 -- 9. Albright Institute: Third Decade, 2000–2009 -- 10. Albright Institute: Fourth Decade, 2010–2014 -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this fascinating book, Seymour (Sy) Gitin recounts his life’s journey, from his childhood in 1940s Buffalo, New York, to a storied career as an archaeologist working and living in Israel.Over the course of his life, Sy served as a rabbi in Los Angeles and as US Air Force Chaplain, starred in an Israeli movie, trained as an archaeologist, and eventually became the Director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, an institution he led for thirty-four years. As an archaeologist, Sy encouraged American participation in the archaeology of ancient Israel, fostered the development of the Palestinian archaeological community, and conducted valuable field work at Tell Gezer and Tel Miqne-Ekron. His tale is full of entertaining vignettes involving the people that he encountered along the way, including many of the pioneers in the field—W. F. Albright, Nelson Glueck, Yigael Yadin, Benjamin Mazar, and Trude Dothan, as well as current protagonists William G. Dever, Israel Finkelstein, and Amihai Mazar.Readers will enjoy Sy’s humorous and engaging stories: rationing out seder wine on a military base following the great Alaskan earthquake only to learn that soldiers were threatening to use it to brush their teeth, encounters with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and US Ambassador Thomas Pickering, and the many colorful experiences he had with fellow scholars through the years.An engaging and entertaining recounting of a remarkably lived life, The Road Taken is a revealing look at being Jewish in America and Israel from the 1940s through today and an eye-opening look at the often controversial development of biblical archaeology. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. bisacsh Archaeology of Ancient Israel. Babylonian destruction. Biblical archaeology. Ekron of the Philistine. First Temple period. Neo-Assyrian empire. Olive oil industrial center. ancient inscriptions. the Philistines. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2021 English 9783110754179 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2021 9783110753943 ZDB-23-PLW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110745108 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646021550 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781646021550 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781646021550/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Early Years, 1936–1956 -- 2. Rabbinic Studies in Cincinnati and Israel, 1956–1962 -- 3. Into the Real World: The Military and Civilian Rabbinate, 1962–1967 -- 4. A New Direction, 1967–1970: The Road to Archaeological Studies -- 5. Doctoral Studies and Excavations in Israel, 1970–1979 -- 6. Albright Institute: A New Beginning and a Vision for the Future, 1979– -- 7. Albright Institute: First Decade, 1980–1989 -- 8. Albright Institute: Second Decade, 1990–1999 -- 9. Albright Institute: Third Decade, 2000–2009 -- 10. Albright Institute: Fourth Decade, 2010–2014 -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Early Years, 1936–1956 -- 2. Rabbinic Studies in Cincinnati and Israel, 1956–1962 -- 3. Into the Real World: The Military and Civilian Rabbinate, 1962–1967 -- 4. A New Direction, 1967–1970: The Road to Archaeological Studies -- 5. Doctoral Studies and Excavations in Israel, 1970–1979 -- 6. Albright Institute: A New Beginning and a Vision for the Future, 1979– -- 7. Albright Institute: First Decade, 1980–1989 -- 8. Albright Institute: Second Decade, 1990–1999 -- 9. Albright Institute: Third Decade, 2000–2009 -- 10. Albright Institute: Fourth Decade, 2010–2014 -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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