ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION
Edited by
Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski
in cooperation with
Dale Allison, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Donna Bowman, Brian Britt, Michael Cameron, Mordechai Z. Cohen, Joseph Davis, Jamey Deming, Martin Forward, Peter Gemeinhardt, Haim Goldfus, Ann E. Killebrew, David W. Kling, Volker Leppin, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Martti Nissinen, Dennis T. Olson, Nils Holger Petersen, S. Brent Plate, Christine Roy Yoder, Thomas Römer, Günter Stemberger, Marvin A. Sweeney, Johan C. Thom, David R. Thomas, Samuel Vollenweider, Jan G. van der Watt, Sidnie White Crawford
Name
Dr. Haim Goldfus
Address
Dept of Bible
Archaeology and Ancient Near East Studies
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel
Telephone +1 972-86472550
Fax
+1 972-86472913
E-Mail goldfusebr@gmail.com
Biography
BA- Hebrew U. 1978 Geography(major); PhD- Princeton University 1997; Adviser S. Curcic. Thesis topic: Tombs and Burials in Churches and Monasteries of Byzantine Palestine (324-628 A.D.).
Participated and conducted extensive archaeological field work and survey in places such as Hamat Gader, Alexandrion, Beit-Shean, Jerusalem, Masada, Judean desert, Elusa (Negev desert) Haim Goldfus is a senior lecturer of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He received his BA degrees in Geography at the Hebrew University, and earned his PhD in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. In the course of the last thirty years, he has participated and directed extensive archaeological fieldwork and survey in places such as Hamat Gader, Alexandrion, Beth-Shean, Jerusalem, Masad, Judean desert, Elusa (Negev desert). His recent publications include Excavations on the site of the Jerusalem international convention center (Binyanei Ha'Uma): a settlement of the late first to the second temple period, the tenth legion's kilnworks, and the Byzantine monastic complex: the pottery and other small finds (=JRASupl. 60) 2005 (directed and co-ed. with B. Arubas); “The Church of St. Euphemia by the Hippodrome, Constantinople within the Broader Historical and Architectural Context of the First Three Decades of the 7th Century CE”, Ancient West and East 5/1-2 (2006), 178-197; “The Syriac inscriptions at the entrance to Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem” ARAM 19 (2006), 415-438 (with S. Brock and A. Kofsky).
Member of the Israel World Heritage Committee.