Dr. Jill Katz

Jill (Citron) Katz is Clinical Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Yeshiva University.  She teaches both archaeology and anthropology, with a specialty in biblical archaeology.  Dr. Katz has excavated at several sites in Israel, including Ashkelon, Tel Haror/Gerar, and most recently Tell es-Safi/Gath where she currently serves as Field Director for Area P. Her research interests focus on political, religious, and urban development in Bronze and Iron Age Israel.

Sample Titles

• “Who was a Jew?: The formation of Jewish ethnic identity during the time of the Judges
• What Yitzchak saw when he settled in Gerar?: Canaanite religion during the time of the Patriarchs
• How Jerusalem became the capital of the Jewish people
• The origins of the synagogue
• The Pharaohs who enslaved us: Did the Jews build King Tut’s tomb?
• Why it is easier to build a synagogue than a Temple
• Celebrating Passover in the Land of the Pharaohs
• The Pharaohs who enslaved us
• In the footsteps of the Philistines
• Jerusalem and Samaria: A tale of two cities