In 1961, when Lee Israel Levine graduated from both Columbia
College in New York, majoring in philosophy, and Jewish Theological
Seminary, majoring in Talmud, this accomplishment was only a
precursor to the brilliant career that would follow. While
researching his Columbia University dissertation in Jerusalem,
Levine established close ties with members of the Institute of
Archaeology at Hebrew University and Prof. Yigael Yadin, who
recognized the need for an interdisciplinary approach that would
give graduate archaeology students a solid base in Jewish history
and rabbinic sources to supplement their archaeological training.
Levine accepted Yadin's invitation to return to Israel after
graduation to teach at the Institute of Archaeology and later was
granted a joint appointment in the Institute of Archaeology and the
Department of Jewish History. In 1985, he was promoted to the rank
of Full Professor, and since 2003, he has held the Rev. Moses
Bernard Lauterman Family Chair in Classical Archaeology at the
Hebrew University. Levine was instrumental in founding and
developing the TALI (an acronym for Tigbur Limudei Yahadut,
Enriched Jewish Studies) track of Israel's state school system. He
was also a founding member of the Seminary of Judaic Studies in
Jerusalem (now known as the Schechter Institute for Jewish
Studies), which opened its doors in 1984. In addition to teaching,
Lee headed the Schechter Institute (first as dean and then as
president) from 1987 to 1994. Lee was an active member of the
Masorti Movement in Israel and represented it abroad as Director of
the Foundation for Masorti Judaism (1986-87) and Vice-Chancellor of
Israel Affairs at the Jewish Theological Seminary (1987-94). The
honoree has published 12 monographs, 11 edited or coedited volumes,
and 180 articles. His scholarship encompasses a broad range of
topics relating to ancient Judaism, especially archaeology,
rabbinic studies, and Jewish history. Within these disciplines he
has dealt with a variety of subfields, including ancient synagogues
and liturgy, ancient Jewish art, Galilee, Jerusalem, Hellenism and
Judaism, and the historical geography of ancient Palestine. He is
one of the first major scholars to draw on and integrate data from
all of these fields in order to afford a better understanding of
ancient Judaism. The 32 contributions to this volume by 35 authors
are a tribute to his influence on this field of study and reflect
the broad spectrum of his own interests. The 26 English and 6
Hebrew essays are divided into sections on Hellenism, Christianity,
and Judaism; art and archaeology-Jerusalem and Galilee; rabbis; the
ancient synagogue; sages and patriarchs; and archaeology, art, and
historical geography.
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