Eric Meyers, Bernice & Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Students and director of the Center for Jewish Studies, was honored with a lifetime achievement award for archeological research in Galilee. The award was presented in June by the Upper Galilee Regional Council upon the nomination by Tel Hai and Kinneret colleges in Galilee.
The award marked Meyer's 40 years of reearch in the history of Galilee. He is editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, and co-author of the Cambridge Companion to the Bible.
Meyers received the award at a dinner at Tel Hai College. He gave a keynote speech in which he discussed excavations at Nabratein in the Upper Galilee where researchers have found an ancient synagogue that dates to the second and third centuries Common Era. The dig there has uncovered important finds such as a fragment of the Torah Shrine, commonly referred to as the successor to the Ark of the Covenant in the late Jewish tradition. The site is now a national park.
For more about the research at Nabratein, click here.