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
