Rafi Greenberg Explained

Rafi Greenberg (Rafael) is a senior lecturer in archaeology at Tel Aviv University.^[1]

Greenberg is the leading critic of the archaeological digs now underway at the Ophel, in Jerusalem.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Greenberg founded an organization called An Alternative Archaeological Tour of Ancient Jerusalem, to present his views of the ancient finds in the area of the Ophel. ^[5] He explained to a reporter that "Archeology is all about interpretation. The findings don't speak for themselves, archeologists speak for them."^[6]

Education

He received his B.A. from Hebrew University in 1981.He received his M.A. from Hebrew University in 1987.He received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University in 1997.

Current projects

• Tel Bet Yerah Research and Excavation Project (TBYREP)
• Rogem Ganim Project in Community Archaeology

Published works

Books

• A. Biran, D. Ilan and R. Greenberg. Dan I. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College, 1996. 329 pp.; Part II: A. Gopher and R. Greenberg. The Pottery Neolithic Levels (pp. 65–81); Part III: R. Greenberg. The Early Bronze Age Levels (pp. 83–160).
• E. Eisenberg, A. Gopher, and R. Greenberg. Tel Te'o - A Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age Site in The Hula Valley. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 13. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2001. 227 pp.
• R. Greenberg. Early Urbanizations in the Levant: A Regional Narrative. New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology. London: Leicester University Press, 2002. xii + 141 pp.
• R. Greenberg, E. Eisenberg, S. Paz and Y. Paz. Bet Yerah - The Early Bronze Age Mound: Vol. I - Excavation Reports 1933-1986. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 30. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006.

Selected articles

• Stamped and Incised Jar Handles from Rogem Ganim, and Their Implications for the Political Economy of Jerusalem, Late 8th-Early 4th Centuries BCE. Tel Aviv. (with G. Cinamon).
• What's Cooking in EB II? In P. de Miroschedji and A. Maeir eds. I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times: Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Winona Lake, 2006.
• Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age of Israel/Palestine. In S. Gitin et al. eds. W.G. Dever Festschrift. (with S. Bunimovitz).
• Notes on the Early Bronze Age Pottery: The 1998-2000 Seasons. In I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern eds. Megiddo IV. Tel Aviv, 2006. pp. 151–167.
• The Early Bronze Age Fortifications of Tel Bet Yerah. Levant 37 (2005): 81-103 (with Y. Paz).
• An EB IA-EB III Stratigraphic Sequence from the 1946 Excavations at Tel Bet Yerah. Israel Exploration Journal 54 (2004): 1-23 (with S. Paz).
• Revealed in Their Cups: Syrian Drinking Practices in Intermediate Bronze Age Canaan. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 334 (2004): 19-32 (with S. Bunimovitz).
• Early Bronze Age Megiddo and Bet Shean: Discontinuous Settlement in Socio-Political Context. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16 (2003): 17-32.
• Discontinuities in Rural Settlement, Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age I. In A. Maeir, S. Dar and Z. Safrai eds. The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2003. pp. 27–42.
• Egypt, Bet Yerah, and Early Canaanite Urbanization. In E.C.M. van den Brink and T.E. Levy eds. Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction: From the 4th through Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E. (New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology). London: Leicester University Press, 2002. pp. 213–222 (with E. Eisenberg).
• Archaeological Public Policy in Israel. In D. Korn ed. Public Policy in Israel: Perspectives and Practices. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. pp. 191–203 (with A. Gopher and Z. Herzog).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof. Raphael Greenberg. 2021-11-17. Tel Aviv University. en-US.
2. Deep divisions. Haim. Watzman. May 1, 2007. Nature. 447. 7140. 22–24. 10.1038/447022a. 17476239. free.
3. Web site: Friedman. Matti. 2008. Politics, archaeology collide beneath Jerusalem. USA Today.
4. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;315/5812/588
5. Web site: From Shiloah to Silwan - An Alternative Archaeological Tour of Ancient Jerusalem. https://web.archive.org/web/20080314025507/http://www.alt-arch.org/contact.html. dead. March 14, 2008.
6. Web site: Green. Michael. 2 March 2008. Digging too deep?. 2021-11-17. The Jerusalem Post. en-US.