Lecture by Mordechai Aviam on "Yodfat (Jotapata): The Life and Death of a Jewish Galilean Town" | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

April 30, 2018

The David A. Kipper Ancient Isreal Lecture:

Yodfat (Jotapata): The Life and Death of a Jewish Galilean Town

Mordechai Aviam
Senior Lecturer, Department of Land of Israel Studies, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee
Senior Researcher, the Institute for Galilean Archaeology

Wednesday
May 2, 2018
7:00 PM
Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute

Take a journey back in time to the dramatic end of a Jewish Galilean town. The excavation of Yodfat (ancient Jotapata) uncovered evidence of daily life as well as siege preparations for the war which brought about its bloody destruction by Roman legionaries under the command of the future emperors Vespasian and Titus. Joins us for this glimpse of how archaeology and text come together.