20 Facts About Oded Lipschits

Oded Lipschits is an Israeli professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Oded Lipschits has since become a Senior Lecturer and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University and served as the Director of the Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology since 2011.

Together with his colleagues, Oded Lipschits has directed several archaeological excavations including Ramat Rachel, Tel Azekah and Tel Moza.

Oded Lipschits is credited with authoring and co-authoring over a dozen books and several hundred articles.

Oded Lipschits has organized and lectured in over 200 local and international conferences worldwide and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, grants, and scholarships, including the EMET Prize in the field of Archaeology.

Oded Lipschits was born in Jerusalem in 1963, and served in the IDF between 1981 and 1985 and ultimately discharged with the rank of major.

Oded Lipschits is married to Yael Oded Lipschits and lives in Alon HaGalil.

Oded Lipschits began his studies in archaeology and Jewish history at the Tel Aviv University in 1985, and received his Ph.

In 1998 Oded Lipschits became a faculty member and in 2002 he received the title of Senior Lecturer with tenure from the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University.

Oded Lipschits has established and has since headed the MA program in Ancient Israel Studies and International MA program for the History and Archaeology of the Holy Land.

Oded Lipschits has served since 2011 as the director of the Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology.

Oded Lipschits has supervised more than 50 MA students and 20 Ph.

The primary focus of Oded Lipschits' research is the Southern Levant, and the land of Judah in the Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic and Hasmonean periods.

Oded Lipschits has demonstrated in his book The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah Under Babylonian Rule that significant parts of Judah remained inhabited during the Babylonian rule.

From 2004 to 2010 Oded Lipschits has co-directed the excavations at Ramat Rachel with Manfred Oeming of the Heidelberg University.

Oded Lipschits has demonstrated in a series of articles that during the Persian rule the administrative and economic center of the Judean province has shifted from Tell en-Nasbeh north of Jerusalem, to Ramat Rachel, and not to Jerusalem as previously thought.

Together with David S Vanderhooft of Boston University, Lipschits has pioneered a comprehensive study of the Judean stamp seals during the Persian rule with consideration to their use as a chronological marker and their importance in illuminating the economy of Judah in that period.

Oded Lipschits then continued the study with his colleagues, expanding the framework to the first appearance of stamp seals in Judah, such as the LMLK seals and published a book titled Age of Empire: The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th-2nd Centuries BCE in Light of Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions.

Since 2010, Oded Lipschits is co-directing the Lautenschlager Azekah Expedition together with Yuval Gadot and Manfred Oeming.

Since 2018, Oded Lipschits has co-directed the Tel Moza Expedition Project with Shua Kisilevitz.