MAZAR (Maisler), BENJAMIN
- MAZAR (Maisler), BENJAMIN
- MAZAR (Maisler), BENJAMIN (1906–1995), Israeli archaeologist
and historian. Born in Ciechanowiec in Poland, he studied at the
universities of Berlin and Giessen. In 1929 he settled in Palestine,
becoming the secretary of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society
(1929–43). Mazar joined the staff of the Hebrew University in 1943 and
in 1951 he was appointed professor of the history of the Jewish people
in the biblical period and the archaeology of Palestine. He was
appointed rector of the university in 1952 and president in 1953,
holding both positions until 1961. In 1959 he became president of the
Israel Exploration Society. He was also chairman of the Archaeological
Board of Israel and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities. In 1968 he received the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies.
Mazar directed archaeological excavations at Ramat Raḥel (1931),
Bet She'arim (1936–40), Tell Qasile (1949ff.), and en-gedi
(1957–66). He conducted the historic excavation along the outside of the
southern and western sections of the Temple enclosure in Jerusalem and
the Tyropoeon Valley (1967ff.). Besides over 300 articles, including
excavation reports, Mazar has published Untersuchungen zur alten
Geschichte und Ethnographie Syriens und Palästinas (1930);
Toledot ha-Meḥkar ha-Arkheologi be-Ereẓ Yisrael ("History of
Palestine Exploration," 1935); Toledot Ereẓ Yisrael ("History
of Palestine" part I, 1937); Israel in Biblical Times – a
Historical Atlas (1941); and the first volume of Beth Shearim
(1944, 19572). He headed the editorial board of the biblical
encyclopedia Enẓiklopedyah Mikra'it (1950–89). An important
collection of Mazar's articles was assembled in S. Ahituv and B. Levine
(eds.), The Early Biblical Period: Historical
Studies (1986). Over a
period of two generations Mazar trained most of the Israeli
archaeologists and Bible scholars.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
H. Beinart, in: Eretz Israel, 5 (1958), 1–8.
ADD.BIBLIOGRAPHY:W. Dever, in:
DBI, 2:141.
(Michael Avi-Yonah /
S. David Sperling (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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