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Dr. Ido Koch, Senior Lecturer at the Jakob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University
Ido Koch is Senior Lecturer at the Jakob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University. He has served as co-director of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant, a Swiss–Israeli project funded by the Swiss National Sciences Fund; co-director of the Tel Hadid Archaeological Project; co-director of Al-Haditha, an Archaeological–Historical Study of a Ruined Palestinian Village—a project funded by the Israel Sciences Foundation; co-director of the White–Levy funded project of Final Publication of Y. Aharoni’s Excavations at Tel Arad project, funded by the White–Levy Program for Archaeological Publication; and Editor-in-chief of Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University. Among his publications are his PhD-based 2021 monograph, adapted from the 2018 Hebrew monograph, which deals with Levantine reactions to Egyptian colonialism during the second millennium BCE; a 2022 special issue of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel on the deportations to a from the Levant during the Neo-Assyrian and the Neo-Babylonian periods; and a forthcoming edited volume titled From Nomadism to Monarchy? Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant.
Join Ido Koch as he shares insights from the archaeological study of uprootedness emerging from his ongoing work at Tel Hadid, central Israel, and as he reflects on the entanglement of the ancient past, the recent past, and the present in the archaeology of Israel.
