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    Nahman Avigad (Hebrew: נחמן אביגד, September 25, 1905 – January 28, 1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Zavaliv, Ukraine), was...
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  • Gad Avigad (born 1930), Israeli biochemist Jeremy Avigad (born 1968), American philosopher Nahman Avigad (1905–1992), Israeli archaeologist This page or...
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    the Hasmonean city walls. It was excavated by Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad during the 1970s. Finds unearthed at the site attest to the Babylonian...
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    City. The wall was unearthed in the 1970s by Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad. Originally dated to the reign of King Hezekiah (late 8th century BCE)...
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  • with whom he studied. Gad is the son of esteemed Israeli archeologist Nahman Avigad. "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1957 (in Hebrew)". Archived...
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  • a prominent Israeli collector, permitted the Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad to publish the bulla. Although its source is not definitively known...
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    Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem: Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969-1982, Nahman Avigad, Hillel Geva, Israel Exploration Society, 2000. Proof of...
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    inscription to the British Museum, but it was only deciphered in the 1950s by Nahman Avigad. Some scholars believe that this is the tomb of the biblical Shebna...
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  • son of Meshullam." is likely to be his, according to archaeologist Nahman Avigad. Azariah son of Hilkiah and grandfather of Ezra: Mentioned in 1 Chronicles...
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    pointing to Josephus' reliability". In the 1970s and 1980s, a team led by Nahman Avigad discovered traces of great fire that damaged the Upper City's residential...
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    discoveries related to the Cardo were made during excavations led by Nahman Avigad in the 1970s. Today, the Cardo is a main tourist area in the Jewish...
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    excavated under the supervision of Hebrew University archaeologist Nahman Avigad. The archaeological remains are on display in a series of museums and...
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    Athenian-Styled Fractions after the Conquest of Alexander the Great. academia.edu Nahman Avigad, Bullae and Seals from a Post-Exilic Judean Archive. Publication: "Qedem"...
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    including the Hurva Synagogue were rebuilt. Under the direction of Nahman Avigad, the city's Jewish Quarter, which had largely lain in rubble, was carefully...
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  • could be seen. Bouflet stated that in his opinion the excavations by Nahman Avigad and Yigael Shiloh in the 1980s coupled with his reading of Flavius Josephus...
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    these ancient mansions were excavated by an archaeological team led by Nahman Avigad between 1969 and 1983. The museum, located beneath the Yeshivat HaKotel...
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    Palestine Exploration Society, and again in the years 1953–1958 under Nahman Avigad. Additional excavations were conducted at the site in 2006–2007 by archaeologist...
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    purchaser, a prominent Israeli collector, permitted Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad to publish the bulla. Although its source is not definitively known...
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    Palestine. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 9781417963003 – via Google Books. Avigad, Nahman; Geva, Hillel, eds. (2000). Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City...
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  • Chief of the General Staff, who was later to become an archaeologist. Nahman Avigad assessed the proposal, based upon the similarity of the text to that...
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    Temple. Joachim Bouflet [fr] states that "the teams of archaeologists Nahman Avigad in 1969–1980 in the Herodian city of Jerusalem, and Yigael Shiloh in...
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    necropolis] East of Jerusalem's Old City: Kidron Valley Antiquities, citing Nahman Avigad, Ancient Monuments in the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, 1954 (in Hebrew)...
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    Authority). The excavations were headed by Dr Nahman Avigad. In 1970 one of the findings of the Avigad excavations was the Burnt House, which was found...
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  • Jewish Quarter Excavations of the Old City of Jerusalem, directed by Nahman Avigad. In Gershom Gorenberg's words, "[w]hen archeologists speak today of...
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    Bet Alpha. Early archaeological pioneers in 1920s and 1930s included Nahman Avigad, Michael Avi-Yonah, Ruth Amiran, Immanuel Ben-Dor, Avraham Biran, Benjamin...
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  • Death/bubonic plague Anthony Aveni (born 1938) U.S.; archaeoastronomy Nahman Avigad (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada Hasan Awad (born 1912/13) Bedouin;...
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    City of Jerusalem, carried out between 1969 and 1978 and directed by Nahman Avigad, caused a shift in his scientific interests, from the Iron Age to the...
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    excavations at the catacombs in Beit She'arim (Roman-era Jewish village). Nahman Avigad, speaking of the same, wrote: "Of special interest is the title Rabbi...
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    excavated under the supervision of Hebrew University archaeologist Nahman Avigad. Some archaeological remains were left in situ and made accessible,...
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    "belonging to Azaliahu son of Meshullam" according to archaeologist Nahman Avigad. Hilkiah reported to Shaphan about the discovery of a book of Torah...
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