AHMA Participating Faculty
Aaron Brody, PhD (Harvard University, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, 1996)
Assistant Professor of Bible and Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion
Director of the Badè Museum
abrody@psr.edu
Biography:
Dr. Aaron Brody is the Robert and Kathryn Riddell Associate Professor of Bible and Archaeology and the Director of the Badè Museum at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. Brody holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the University of Georgia, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in 2002. Brody is also affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology group at UC Berkeley.
Brody's fieldwork has been conducted primarily at Bronze and Iron Age sites on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, and he has participated in projects in the Negev and Akko Plain and with the Ohlone-Muwekma at sites in northern California. His primary research interests include archaeological interpretations of the society, religion, and economy of ancient Canaan, Phoenicia, and Israel; archaeology and the study of religions; and maritime/underwater archaeology. He has held research posts at both the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, in Jerusalem, and the American Center for Oriental Research, in Amman. Recently his research and publications have focused on household archaeology, metallurgy, and interregional trade at Tell en-Nasbeh, the ancient site that forms the principal holdings of the Badè Museum at Pacific School of Religion. Past work with students in AHMA include focused work on Phoenician society, economy, and religion; maritime archaeology of the Mediterranean; and southern Levantine archaeology.
Areas of Research:
Cultures of the lands of the Bible, archaeological approaches to the study of religion, maritime archaeology, deep water archaeology, modeling of seafaring and trade in the ancient Near East & eastern Mediterranean, the maritime empire of the Phoenicians.
Selected Works:
Tel Akko: The Final Report on the Stratigraphy and the Bronze and Iron Age Material Culture of Area H. ASOR Archaeological Reports Series. In preparation.
"Phoenician Pottery from Tell en-Nasbeh: Interregional Trade in the Iron IIB-IIC Southern Levant." Near Eastern Archaeology. In press.
Review of M. Dayagi-Mendels, The Akhziv Cemeteries: The Ben-Dor Excavations, 1941-1944. Vol. 15 IAA Reports. Jerusalem: 2002. In Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. In press.
"Further Evidence of the Specialized Religion of Phoenician Seafarers." Festschrift for Anna Marguerite McCann. Oxford: Oxbow Monograph Series. In press. In press.
"Late Bronze Age Canaanite Mortuary Practices." Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview, 1985-2000. Vol. 3, Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant. L. E. Stager and J. D. Schloen, eds. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. In press.
Co-authored with Anna Marguerite McCann, "Exploring the Deep," Archaeology Odyssey 6/1:30-39, 2003
"The Patron Deities of Canaanite and Phoenician Seafarers." In Tropis, vol. VII, 7th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, ed. H. Tzalas. Athens: Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, pp. 191-210, 2002
"From the Hills of Adonis through the Pillars of Hercules: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Canaan and Phoenicia." Near Eastern Archaeology 65/1:69-80, 2002
"Archaeology from the Abyss: Results in the New Field of Deep Water Archaeology," Semitic Museum News 5/2: 1-3, 2002
Review of G. Pisano, ed. Phoenicians and Carthaginians in the Western Mediterranean. Vol. 12 Studia Punica. Rome: 1999. In Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63/3:576-78, 2001
"Each Man Cried Out to His God" The Specialized Religion of Canaanite and Phoenician Seafarers. Harvard Semitic Monographs series, no. 58. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1998