Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 1969
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1979 - 2015
  • Director in the Center for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
  • Director in The Center for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2013
  • Director, Judaic Studies, Judaic Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2011
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Center for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1971 - 1979
  • Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1969 - 1971
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • OCT 30, 2015

    Fox News

    Eric Meyers comments: Obama nemesis Hobby Lobby probed for allegedly buying black market biblical items

  • MAY 26, 2015

    WNCN

    Duke professors worried about ISIS' takeover of Palmyra

  • MAY 26, 2015

    Toronto Globe and Mail

    Eric Meyers quoted: World Heritage sites at Palmyra at risk as ISIS advances agenda

  • MAY 21, 2015

    Duke Biblical Scholars Warn of ISIS Control of Palmyra

  • MAY 21, 2015

    News Tip: ISIS Control of Palmyra Sends 'Shockwaves' Through Archaeological Community, Experts Say

  • JAN 14, 2015

    Jewish Voices from the Selma-to-Montgomery March

  • APR 9, 2014

    ASOR Blog

    Eric Meyers: Did Jesus celebrate Passover in Sepphoris?

  • FEB 12, 2014

    TIME magazine

    The mystery of the Bible's phantom camels

  • OCT 14, 2013

    The Christian Science Monitor

    Eric Meyers comments: In Jerusalem, the politics of digging up the past
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  Awards & Honors

  • Eric M. Meyers. Unknown. June 2009
  • Richard J. Scheuer Medal. American Schools of Oriental Research. 2007
  • G. Ernest Wright Publication Award. American Schools of Oriental Research. 1997
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Israel (Country) 

  • Research

    • Israel (Country) 
    • Italy (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Israel (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2003 - 2004
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Meyers, Eric M., Carol L. Meyers, M. Balouka, and A. de Vincenz. The Pottery from Ancient Sepphoris. Edited by E. M. Meyers and C. L. Meyers. Vol. 1. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
    • Meyers, C. L., and E. M. Meyers. Excavations at Ancient Nabratein: Synagogue and Environs. Vol. VI. Eisenbrauns for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2009.
    • Bailey, Candace. Book reviews. Vol. 20. Informa UK Limited, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411890008574783.
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  • Academic Articles

    • Davies, John. “Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, History of Religions,” 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome: Interdisciplinary Studies.” Basor, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey B The Sites.” Scholar’S Bookshelf: Bar 26 (2003): 3–62.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Dictionary of the ancient Near East.” American Journal of Archaeology 105, no. 1 (January 2001): 105–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/507330.
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    • Meyers, E. M., C. L. Meyers, and J. P. Dessel. “Report on the 2000 season at Tell )Ein Zippori.” Israel Exploration Journal 51 (2001): 99–104.
    • Donfried, Karl P., and P. Richardson. “Judaism and Christianity in First Century Rome.” American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000): 39–40.
    • Levine, Lee I. “The Ancient Synagogue.” Journal of Roman Archaeology: “The Ancient Synagogue Revisited,” 2000, 683–85.
    • Levine, Lee I., and Lee I. ed. “Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” Church History, 2000.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-cultural Continuity and Change.” Scholar’S Bookshelf: Bar 26 (2000).
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Pools of Sepphoris - Ritual Baths or Bathtubs?” Biblical Archaeology Review 26 (2000): 46–61.
    • Meyers, E. M., and Mark Chancey. “How Jewish was Sepphoris in Jesus’ Time?” Biblical Archaeology Review 26 (2000): 18–61.
    • Williams, M. H. “The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans.” American Journal of Archaaeology 104 (2000): 39–39.

  • Book Sections

    • Meyers, E. M. “Jesus and His World. Sepphoris and the Quest for the Historical Jesus.” In Saxa Loquentur, edited by Cornelis G den Hertog, Ulrich Hübner, and Stefan Münger, 185–97. Geburtstag (Alter Orient und Altes Testament), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Haggai, Zechariah.” In The New Interpreter’s Study Bible. Abingdon Press: Nashville, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Problems of Gendered Space in Syro-Palestinian Domestic Architecture: The Case of Roman-period Galilee.” In Proceedings from Conference on The Early Christian Family, edited by D. Balch and C. Osiek, 38–51. Wm. B. Erdmans Publishing Co., 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Rise of early Judaism and Early Christianity in the Light of Archaeology with Special Reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In ASOR Centennial at The Smithsonian, edited by D. Clark. ASOR Publications, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Jewish Art and Architecture in Ancient Palestine (70-235 CE).” In The Cambridge History of Judaism, edited by S. Katz, Vol. IV. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Archaeology and Nationalism in Israel: Making the Past Part of the Present.” In Zeichen Aus Text Und Stein: Studien Auf Dem Weg Zu Einer Archäeologie Des Neuen Testaments, edited by S. Alkier and J. Zangenberg. Tübingen, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Ceramic Incense Shovels from Sepphoris: Another View.” In Festschrift for Amichai Mazar, edited by A. Maeir and P de Miroschedji, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M., and Carol Meyers. “New Translation with Brief Introductions to the Books of Haggai and Zechariah.” In The New Catholic Bible, 2003.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Aspects of Everyday Life in Roman Palestine with Special Reference to Private Domiciles and Ritual Baths.” In Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities, edited by J. Bartlett, 193–219. Routledge Ltd., 2002.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Sepphoris: City of Peace.” In The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideaology, edited by A. M. Berlin and J. A. Overman, 110–20. Routledge, 2002.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Jewish Culture in Greco-Roman Palestine.” In Cultures of the Jews: A New History, edited by D. Biale, 138–79. Random House/Shocken, 2001.
    • Meyers, E. M. “From the Maccabees to the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Reclaiming Jewish History, The Proceedings of Colloquium 1997, 97–124. The Society for Humanistic Judaism, Farmington Hills, MI. and Milan Press, 2001.
    • Meyers, E. M., J. D. Seger, and et al. “An ASOR Mosaic: A Centennial History of the American Schools of Oriental Research.” In ASOR Centennial Vol., 3–24. ASOR Publications, 2001.
    • Meyers, E. M., and C. L. Meyers. “Sepphoris; Diocaesarea.” In Dictionary of Archaeology, edited by S. Gibson, 454–56, 2001.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The Dating of the Gush Halav Synagogue: ’Response to Jodi Magness’.” In Judaism in Late Antiquity, Part 3, Vol. 4, Where We Stand: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism, edited by E. M. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, 49–70. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Galilëa, Herodeion.” In Religion in Geschichte Und Gegenwart, 455–1675. Vierte Auflage, 2000.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Caesarea, Chorazin.” In Religion in Geschichte Und Gegenwart, 2677and2931-2677and2931. Vierte Auflage, 2000.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Ceramics Chronology and Historical Reconstruction.” In The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond, edited by James A Sauer Festschrift, L. E. Stager, J. H. Greene, and M. D. Coogan, 344–51. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2000.
    • Meyers, E. M. “Shelomith 2.” In Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, and New Testament, edited by C. L. Meyers and et al, 154–55. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
    • Meyers, E. M. “The American Schools of Oriental Research.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20–22. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  • Conference Papers

    • Meyers, E. M. “Roman-period houses from the Galilee: Domestic architecture and gendered spaces.” In Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors  From the Late Bronze Age..., edited by W. G. Dever and S. Gitin, 487–99. EISENBRAUNS, 2003.
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