Click here to view the upcoming Friends of ASOR webinars. All webinar proceeds fund scholarships for members impacted by COVID-19, as well as increasing ASOR’s online resources for our members and the public.

ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $6 | Public: $12

How to register for a webinar: If you are an ASOR member, log into the online store. If you are new to ASOR, please click on the “New Visitor Registration” link to enter your email and chose a password for the online store. After logging in, navigate to “Meeting and Event Registration” to register for the webinar and pay the fee. Each paid registrant will receive a confirmation email after paying for the webinar. If you do not receive this email (and you have checked your Spam folder), please contact us because the system did not complete your registration. Please e-mail membership@asor.org with any questions or issues with registering.

You will be e-mailed a Zoom Webinar link about four days prior to each lecture. If you have not received a link during the week before the webinar, please contact ASOR. All webinars are recorded, and all paid registrants will be sent a link to the recording.

• Columns as Cultural Capital: The Jordanian Practice of Gifting Archaeological Objects | Elizabeth Macaulay (August 28, 2022) 

• The Good Kings: The Modern Obsession with Ancient Egyptian Kingship | Kara Cooney (September 15, 2022) 

• Life and Death along the Nile: Insights from the Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition | Brenda J. Baker (September 29, 2022) 

• Travels with Olga Tufnell: Memoirs of a “Golden Age” Archaeologist in the Levant | Jack Green (October 13, 2022) 

• Representations of the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Film: From Griffith to Grindhouse | Kevin McGeough (October 27, 2022)

• Something from the Time of Jesus? Tourists, Souvenirs, and Buying the Holy Land | Morag M. Kersel (December 1, 2022)

• From Paganism to Christianity to Islam: The Transformation of Ancient Caesarea | Marsha Rozenblit, Yael Arnon, & Anna Iamim (December 15, 2022)

• “Earliest Inscription Found!” Exposing Sensationalism in the Field of Ancient Inscriptions | Christopher Rollston (January 12, 2023)

• Antiquities Trafficking in the Age of Social Media: How Big Tech Facilitates and Profits from the Digital Black Market | Katie Paul (January 26, 2023) 

• Secrets of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom Capital: el-Lisht | Sarah Parcak (February 8, 2023)  

• Into the Unknown: Exploring a “Lost” Old Kingdom Tomb & Egypto-Nubian Connections| Gregory Mumford (February 23, 2023)  

• How Museums are Saturating the Ancient World with Color | Pinar Durgun (March 9, 2023) 

• Urartu: Reframing Assyria’s Enigmatic Neighbor | Tiffany Early-Spadoni (March 23, 2023)

• New Perspectives on Jerusalem’s 7th Century BCE Elite | Yuval Gadot (April 16, 2023) - Learn More

• The Boomer Archaeologist – Tribes, Identity and the Holy Land | Thomas E. Levy (April 27, 2023) - Learn More

• Jesus Reading Scripture: Exploring the Archaeology of Worship in First-Century Synagogues | Paul Flesher (May 11, 2023) - Learn More

• Monuments, Monumental Architecture, and Monumentality in Ancient Israel | Kyle Keimer (May 25, 2023) - Learn More

• From Standing Stones to Sacred Emptiness: Textual and Visual Portrayals of Israel’s God | Theodore Lewis (August 29, 2021)

• David, Solomon, and Rehoboam’s Kingdom—The Archaeological Evidence | Yosef Garfinkel (September 19, 2021)

• Digging the Divine?: Judahite Pillar Figurines & the Archaeology of Israelite Religion | Erin Darby (October 7, 2021)

• Jesus and Jerusalem on TV: How Do Bible Documentaries Get Made? | Robert Cargill (October 17, 2021)

• Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City | Andrew Lawler (November 4, 2021)

• Synagogues As Jesus Knew Them | James R. Strange (December 2, 2021)

• The Not-So-Innocents Abroad: The Beginnings of American Biblical Archaeology | Rachel Hallote (January 20, 2022)

• Symposium—Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley | Amihai Mazar, Nava Panitz Cohen, Nota Kourou, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Robert Mullins (February 10, 2022)

• Excavations at Tel Gezer: A Personal Story | Sam Wolff (February 20, 2022) 

• Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects | Stephen Batiuk, Michael Given, Michael Hoff, Monique Roddy (March 8, 2022)

• Uncovering What is Nubian Beneath the Veneer of Egyptianness: Excavating the Archives | Debora Heard (March 20, 2022)

• Back to the Field: Recent Discoveries & Summer Plans 2022 | Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Kathryn Grossman, & James R. Strange (April 3, 2022)

• Preserving Cultural Heritage in Hisban and Umm al-Jimal, Jordan | Øystein LaBianca, Elizabeth Osinga, & Darrell Rohl (April 24, 2022)

• A World at War: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict | Patty Gerstenblith, Lisa Ackerman, Andrew Cohen, Jane DeRose Evans (May 12, 2022)

• When Women Ruled the World—An Egyptian View | Kara Cooney (May 23, 2021)

• Translating Outreach into Action: Cultivating Heritage Volunteerism in Libya | Ahmad Emrage and William Raynolds (May 23, 2021)

• My Life as An Archaeologist—How My Mind Has Changed, and How It Has Stayed the Same | Larry Geraty (May 23, 2021)

• Jezebel and Naboth’s Vineyard—What Recent Excavations at Jezreel Reveal About the Bloody Biblical Story | Jennie Ebeling (May 23, 2021)

• Identities in the Age of Internationalism: Tel Lachish in the Late Bronze Age | Felix Höflmayer (May 22, 2021)

• My Life as An Archaeologist—How My Mind Has Changed, and How It Has Stayed the Same | Stuart Swiny (May 22, 2021)

• Life and Death on Petra’s North Ridge | Megan A. Perry (May 22, 2021)

• Black in Ancient History: Disciplinary Divides and a Call for Change | Debora Heard (May 22, 2021)

• 7 Years After 1177—What Has Changed Since I Published My Book | Eric H. Cline (May 21, 2021)

• My Life as An Archaeologist—How My Mind Has Changed, and How It Has Stayed the Same | Carol Meyers (May 21, 2021)

• Pious Textual Forgeries: From Shapira to the Museum of the Bible | Christopher Rollston, Katherine Jones, and Thomas Kline (May 21, 2021)

• Archaeogaming: Why Video Games Deserve Their Own Archaeology | Tine Rassalle, Shannon Martino, Matthew Winter, Michael Zimmerman (April 18, 2021)

• How the Bible Became a Book | William Schniedewind (March 21, 2021)

• The Mysteries of Mithras in Caesarea: Exploring the Cult’s Rites and Remains | Jane DeRose Evans, Alexandra Ratzlaff (March 11, 2021)

• Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women | Carol Meyers (February 21, 2021)

• Meet the Directors—Fundraiser to Support ASOR’s Affiliated Overseas Research Centers | Matthew J. Adams, Pearce Paul Creasman, Lindy Crewe (February 11, 2021)

• Early Synagogues, Jesus, and Galilee—A Jewish Perspective | Eric Meyers (December 13, 2020)

• Home Sweet Home: Ancient Israelite Households in Context | Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (October 18, 2020)

• Priestesses in the Days of Solomon and Ahab | Susan Ackerman (September 13, 2020)

• Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works | Eric H. Cline (August 9, 2020)