Oded Lipschits

Oded Lipschits co-directs the Ramat Rachel excavations. At Tel Aviv University he is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and a professor in the Jewish History department, where he has taught since 1988.

In 2004 Dr. Lipschits published The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (Eisenbrauns), for which he received the Zehavah and Eliyahu Eilat Prize. In 2005 he was awarded the Ish-Shalom Prize for Best Book in the Research of the History of Israel. His most recent book, Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period, was published in January 2006 (Eisenbrauns).