The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem is pleased to announce the winner of the 24th annual competition for the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. This award offers $750 for the best paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Authors may be of any nationality but the paper must be in English.
The winning paper this year is by Christina Olson, a Ph.D. candidate in Religion at Baylor University. Her paper, “Mortuary Landscapes of Iron Age Judah: A Reconsideration of the Relationship between the City and its Dead,” was presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA on November 23, 2024.
The Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize was established in 2001 by the late Mrs. Norma Dever and Professor William G. Dever, in memory of their son Sean William.
