We have been privileged to host lectures by the following (listed in alphabetical order with lecture titles):

Al-Mahamid, Bassam & Hanadi al-Tahir

• Illuminating Jordan’s Cultural Heritage

Averbeck, Richard

• Building a House for God in the World of the Bible

Barkay, Gabriel

• Artifacts from the Temple Mount

Bates, Robert

• Making a Future for Our Past (with his students)
• Undergraduate Research at Tall Hisban, Jordan Field School 2011

Bazak, Jacob

• Numerical Devices as Literary Ornaments in the Book of Psalms

Beikman, Stanley

• Undergraduate Research at Tall Hisban, Jordan Field School 2012

Bienkowski, Piotr

• Tribes, Towns, and Trade: The Late Iron Age in Southern Jordan and the Negev
• Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians in Jordan

Borowski, Oded

• The Iron Age at Tell Halif

Borstad, Karen A.

• The Kings’ Highway: Its Role in the Holy Land in Biblical Times

Brand, Peter

• Preserving Egypt’s Threatened Past: The Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project

Bucheim, Paul

• Geology and Fossils of an Ancient Lake System: The Green River Formation of Southwestern Wyoming

Bull, Robert J.

• Caesarea Maritima: Capital of Roman Palestine in Jesus’ Day

Bullard, Reuben

• Infant Sacrifice Among the Canaanites and Phoenicians as Indicated at Gezer and Carthage

Campbell, Edward F.

• Archaeology at Shechem: A Case Study in Biblical Archaeology

Carswell, John

• Architecture and Environment in the Near East

Carter, Charles

• No Other Gods: Did Idolatry End in Exile?

Chartkoff, Joseph L.

• The Dawn of Farming in the Near East

Chavalas, Mark W.

• Terqa: The Middle Euphrates Region of Syria during the Time of the Patriarchs

Chesnut, Owen

• A Reassessment of the Excavations at Tall Safut: The Site of Biblical Nobah

Clark, Douglas

• Religious and Domestic Life at the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tall al-‘Umayri, Jordan

Cummings, Eryl A.

• The Recent Search for Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat

Daviau, Michele

• Temples and Towns in Moab

Demsky, Aaron

• The Tel Dan “House of David” Inscription

Dever, William G.

• Archaeology and Popular Religions in Ancient Israel
• Fading Glory?: The Recent Controversy over Israel’s Davidic Monarchy
• Did God Have A Wife?
• Ethnography and Everyday Life in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect (with Pamela Gaber)
• Ethnographic Artifacts in the Horn Archaeological Museum
• The Age of Solomon: Fact or Fiction?

DeVries, Bert

• Umm el-Jimal: the Ghost Black City of the Jordanian Desert
• Archaeology in Jordan after the Gulf War
• Multi-Communal Site Presentation at Umm al-Jimal (with associates and students)

Eadie, John W.

• Cult and Social Regulations in Iron I Israel: The View from Ta’anach

Elkins-Bates, Stefanie

• Khirbet Ataruz: Omri, Mesha, Temples and Wars (with Chang-Ho Ji)

Filas, Francis L.

• A Theologian Looks at the Shroud of Turin

Frick, Frank S.

• Cult and Social Regulations in Iron I
• Israel: The View from Ta’anach

Gaber, Pamela

• Ethnography and Everyday Life in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect (with William Dever)

Gane, Connie

• Nineveh’s Last Stand: Assyrian Bones and the Gate of Doom
• Babylonian Symposium (with Students)
• Nineveh Symposium (with Students)
• Persia Symposium (with Students)

Gane, Roy

• Reconstructing a Sennacherib Prism Recently Found at Nineveh, Iraq

Geraty, Larry T.

• Tell el-Umeiri 1987
• Report on the 1987 Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Umeiri
• An Ammonite City Continues to Reveal its Secrets: Tell el-Umeiri, 1989
• Respondent, “The Spade Confirms the Book Revisited” (R. Younker)

Gerber, Yvonne

• The Daily Life of the Nabataeans (Swiss-Liechtenstein Excavations at Petra, Jordan)

Gilmour, Garth

• The Archaeology of Cult in Early Iron Age Palestine: A Methodological Approach
• The Archaeology of the Philistines in Iron II: National and Economic Revival under Assyrian Domination

Goldfried, Howard P.

• Herod’s Fortress and the Zealot’s Last Stand

Graham, Andrew

• Showdown at Moab

Graichen, Thomas

• Figuring Out Figurines (with Regine Huniziker-Rodewald and Astride Nunn)

Gregor, Paul

• Jalul Excavations: Recent Findings (with Paul Ray and students)
• Many Waters in the Desert: A Look at Jalul’s Water Systems
• The Waters of Jalul
• Excavating Khirbet Safra: A Biblical City from the Time of the Judges, Part I and II

Grunewald, Mathilde

• Medieval Pilgrimage
• Luther and His Books

Hasel, Michael

• The Identification of Canaanite Territories, Cities and Peoples in the New Kingdom of Egypt
• The Battle Over King David: Excavating the Fortress of Elah
• David and Solomon’s Legacy: The Results of the Fourth Expedition to Lachish

Herr, Larry G.

• Digging Up One of the Lost Tribes
• Where Have the Amorites Gone?: Tall al-‘Umayri and the Bible

Hess, Richard S.

• Rahab’s Name and Other Textual Evidence Regarding the Historical Context of Joshua
• Between the Sand and the Sea: Israel’s Sojourn in the Wilderness
• King Lists, Names, and the Line from Adam to Abram in Genesis 1-11

Hoerth, Al

• Ancient Games People Played
• The Worlds of Abraham

Hoffmeier, James K.

• Moses vs. Pharaoh: An Egyptologist’s Perspective
• The Excavations at Tell el-Borg, Sinai: New light on the Route of the Exodus

Hoflmayer, Felix

• The Austrian Expedition to Tell Lachish, 2017-2023

Horn, Siegfried H.

• Heshbon in the Bible and Archaeology
• The Mesha Inscription: Its Bearing on Moab in the 9th Century

Hubbard, Reuben

• Health and Medical Practice in Ancient Egypt

Hudson, Stanley

• Coins of the Bible Lands

Hunziker-Rodewald, Regine

• Figuring Out Figurines (with Astride Nunn and Thomas Graichen)

Ibrahim, Moawiyah

• Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Yemen

Irving, Dorothy

• The Well Dressed Ammonite Woman

Isaac, Benjamin H.

• Judea Between the First and Second Jewish Revolts

Ji, Chang-Ho

• Khirbet Ataruz: Omri, Mesha, Temples and Wars (with Stefanie Elkins-Bates)

Johnson, Cale

• The Invention of Writing in Mesopotamia

Johnston, Robert M.

• A Theologian’s First Visit to the Holy Land

Khairy, Nabil

• Petra and the Culture of the Nabataeans

Kingbeil, Gerald

• Getting the Big Picture: Surveys in Archaeology

LaBianca, Øystein S.

• Let the City of Sihon Be Repaired: Plans for Restoration and Preservation of Tall Hisban (Biblical Heshbon)
• Anthropology and Biblical Archaeology: The View from Tall Hisban
• 40 Years at Hesban (Biblical Heshbon?)
• Jordan Field School 2011 (with Robert Bates, Patrice Jones, Kristen Witzel, Brian Manley, Martin Smith and their students)

Lapp, Nancy

• Excavations on the Dead Sea Plain, 1990

Livingston, David

• The Search for Biblical Ai

Loffreda, Stanislao

• Recent Excavations at Capernaum

London, Gloria

• Ceramic Folk Art in Cyprus and Jordan

Lynn, Donald J.

• A Scientist Looks at the Shroud of Turin

MacDonald, Burton

• The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey, West-Central Jordan

Machinist, Peter

• Nahum and the Fall of Nineveh: Prophet Vindicated and Conqueror Conquered

Master, Daniel

• Searching for Solomon in the Archaeological Record (with John Monson)

Mattingly, Gerald L.

• The Archaeology of Transjordan and Conquest-Settlement
• Recent Archaeological Research in Ancient Moab and the Karak Resources Project

Merling, David

• The Monastery, the Manuscript and the Mountain

Meyers, Eric

• Everyday Life in Roman Palestine

Milgrom, Jacob

• Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for the Extent and Nature of Idolatry in 8th and 7th Century Judah

Miller, J. Maxwell

• Two Centuries of Archaeological Exploration in Ancient Moab

Monson, John

• Searching for Solomon in the Archaeological Record (with Daniel Master)

Ninow, Friedbert

• At the Fringes of the Moabite Plateau: New Discoveries in Ancient Moab

Nitowski, Eugenia L.

• Mt. Carmel Project – 1988

Nunn, Astride

• Figuring Out Figurines (with Regine Huniziker-Rodewald and Thomas Graichen)

Ortiz, Steven M.

• House of David or the Tent of David? Current Issues and Trends in Biblical Archaeology
• Recent Excavations at Gezer, Israel

Oswalt, John

• The Coherence/Incoherence of the Book of Isaiah and an Evangelical View of Scripture

Pettinato, Giovanni

• Update on Ebla Tablet Research

Platt, Elizabeth E.

• A Morning in Abraham’s Town

Pott, Kenneth

• Recent Archaeology Work in Lake Michigan: a 19th Century Schooner!

Rainey, Anson F.

• Pictures of Israelites found in Egypt?
• Bringing the Bible Down to Earth – The Disciplines of Historical Geography: An Approach to Everyday Life of Ancient Israel
• From Where Did the Israelites Come?

Rast, Walter E.

• Bab edh-Dhra: Is It Biblical Sodom?

Ray, Paul 

• Update on Tall Hisban
• The Jesus Tomb (with Randall Younker)
• Jalul Excavations: Recent Findings (with Paul Gregor and students)

Reeves, John

• X-Raying the Pharaohs

Rendsburg, Gary Al

• Reading the Abraham Story

Ritmeyer, Leen

• The Temple and the Rock-Where the Ark of the Covenant stood in Solomon’s Temple and A Square of 500 Cubits – Locating the Original Temple Mount

Runia, David

• Philo of Alexandria and the Founding of Two Cities

Salem, Hamed

• The Current State of Archaeology in the Palestinian Territories

Sauer, James A.

• The Relationship Between Archaeology and Biblical Studies

Schaub, Thomas

• Recent Excavations at Khanazir, Jordan

Schiffman, Lawrence

• The Sabbath in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Schoville, Keith

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Recent Controversies
• The Contribution of Archaeology to Biblical Studies

Schultz, Warren

• Numismatics and Tall Hisban: Mamluk Coins and the 2014 Season

Seger, Joe D.

• Tell Halif – Bottom to Top Excavations of the 1992-93 Seasons

Shea, William

• Traces of Israelites in Sinai
• Sennacherib: One Campaign or Two?
• History and Inscription
• Where Was Jesus Crucified and Resurrected?

Shiloh, Yigal

• New Archaeological Discoveries in the City of David – Biblical Jerusalem

Sigrist, Marcel

• The Cuneiform Archive of Drehem and Ur III Administration

Silva, Rodrigo

• In a Strange Land: How Judaism Adapted and Survived in Dura Europos, Syria

Smith, Joanna S.

• Eastern Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Age Ceramics from Production to Consumption

Snow, Timothy

• Abila at the Time of Jesus

Stern, Ephraim

• The Archaeology of Tel Dor, the Biblical Seaport

Stripling, Scott

• Go Now to Shiloh: Have We Found the House of God?

Stordalen, Terje

• Characteristics of Cultural Production in the Iron Age Southern Levant

Storfjell, J. Bjørnar

• The Use of Coins in Archaeological Dating
• The Crescent and the Cross: Christianity Gives Way to Islam
• Ceramic Development of the Byzantine through Crusader Period

Syphers, C. Erwin

• A Pictorial Visit to Petra

Tappy, Ron

• Tel Zayit in the Early Iron II Period: A Biblical City on the Border of Judah

Terian, Abraham

• Digging for Lost Works in a Medieval Archive
• The Coins of Heshbon
• The Religious Relics of the First Christian Nation

Toueir, Kassem

• Ebla and Its Importance In Syrian Archaeology

Tsouparopoulou, Christina

• What Can These Tiny Clay Tablets Tell Us About Ancient Drehem?

Tubb, Jonathan N.

• Recent Excavations at Tell es Sydiah

van der Steen, Eveline

• Traveling With the Bedouin: A Journey into Iron Age Transjordan

VanderKam, James C.

• Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Vaughn, Andrew

• The Success of Hezekiah: A New Look at Hezekiah’s Success Following Sennacherib’s Campaign

Walton, John

• The Mesopotamian Background of the Tower of Babel

Waterhouse, S. Douglas

• The Hesban Tombs

Weiss, Herold

• Renewed Excavation at Capernaum, the City Jesus Loved

Wiseman, Donald J.

• Archaeology and the Book of Jonah
• The Bible and Archaeology

Wolff, Samuel

• Tel Megadin: A Multi-period Site on the Carmel Coast, Israel

Wood, Bryant

• Uncovering the Truth at Jericho: A Comparison of the Archaeological and Biblical History of Jericho in the Late Bronze Age
• In Search of Biblical Ai: Khirbet Mukatir
• New Evidence for Israel in Egypt
• More New Evidence for Israel in Egypt

Yamauchi, Edwin

• Babylon and the Bible

Younger, Lawson

• The “Lost Tribes” of Israel in the Light of Recent Discoveries

Younker, Randall W.

• New Insights on the Biblical Ammonites
• Jalul Excavations: 1992 and 1994
• Did David Really Exist: Sensational Finds and Controversy Over Israel’s Greatest King
• In the Trenches: The Battle Between Archaeology and Biblical Criticism
• Adventist Contributions to Archaeology
• The Jesus Tomb (with Paul Ray)
• Is the Bible Historically Reliable?
• Forgotten Treasures of Biblical Archaeology
• Moabites, Solomon’s Pools and Other Mysteries at Jalul: Report on the 2011 Season at Tall Jalul, Jordan
• New Biblical Connections Discovered at Jalul
• Paul and the Emergence of Christianity in Sicily
• Archaeology, Women, and the Early Church
• The Spade Confirms the Book Revisited
• Archaeology, Women, and the Early Church, Part II
• Has the Ark been Found on Ararat? A Preliminary Report on Andrews University’s New Expedition to Eastern Turkey
• Report on the Recent Climb and the Finds on Mt. Ararat

Zadok, Ran

• The Earliest Diaspora: The Judeans in Babylonia and Their Neighbors

Zayadine, Fawzi

• Recent Excavations at the Amman Citadel and Iraq el Amir
• As-Sela of Edom and the Rock of the Nabataeans

Ziese, Mark

• The Tragedies of Tell Taanek