Jennie Ebeling, associate professor of archaeology and chair of the Department of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Evansville, was a featured speaker at The Future of Biblical Archaeology Conference, held October 14-15 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
At the conference, Ebeling led a breakout session titled “The Use and Abuse of 19th-20th Century Palestinian Ethnography on Reconstructions of Life in Biblical Israel.†She also discussed the methodology behind her book Women’s Lives in Biblical Times, published in 2010 by T&T Clark International. The book uses archaeological, iconographic, and ethnographic data to create a detailed description of the life of an average woman who might lived in the central highlands of Iron Age I (ca. 1200-1000 BCE) Israel.
An archaeologist who works in Israel and Jordan, Ebeling earned a PhD in Syro-Palestinian archaeology from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona in 2001. She has been awarded several competitive grants, including a Fulbright fellowship and a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, to support her graduate and post-graduate research in Israel and Jordan.
Ebeling has taught in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Evansville since 2002 and has served as chair since 2009. In spring 2011, she received the Dean’s Teaching Award from UE’s College of Arts and Sciences. She also serves as a vice president of the American Schools of Oriental Research and an assistant editor of the journal Near Eastern Archaeology.
