Baruch Halpern

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Baruch Halpern is Chairman of Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a leader of the archaeological digs at Tel Megiddo since 1992.[1]

Major publications include:

  • David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (2003)
  • The Rise of Ancient Israel: Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution (1991, with Hershel Shanks, William Dever, and P. Kyle McCarter
  • The Emergence of Israel in Canaan (1983)
  • The Constitution of the Monarchy in Israel (1981)
  • The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (1980)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ussishkin, David. Tel Megiddo Centennial – Year 2002 Season. Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
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