Pacific School of Religion
Robert & Kathryn Riddell Assistant Professor of Bible & Archaeology; Director of the Bade Museum
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 2002

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996
M.A., Harvard University, 1994
B.A., U.C. Berkeley, 1988

Phone: 510/849-8201
E-mail: abrody@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• The Society of Ancient Israel
• Tell en-Nasbeh
• Canaanite and Phoenician Cultures
• Archaeology and the Study of Religion
• Archaeology and the Cultures of the Hebrew Bible
• Art and Iconography of Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Selected Publications

• "Each Man Cried Out to His God," The Specialized Religion of Canaanite and Phoenician Seafarers. Harvard Semitic Monographs series, no. 58. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1998.
• "Further Evidence of the Specialized Religion of Phoenician Seafarers." Festschrift for Anna Marguerite McCann. [in press]
• "From the Hills of Adonis through the Pillars of Hercules: Recent Advances in the Material Cultural Study of Canaanite and Phoenician Civilization." Near Eastern Archaeology. [in press]
• Co-authored with Anna Marguerite McCann, "Exploring the Deep," Archaeology Odyssey 6/1:30-39, 2003.
• Tel Akko: The Final Report on the Stratigraphy and the Bronze and Iron Age Material Culture of Area H. [in preparation]
• "Late Bronze Age Canaanite Mortuary Practices." Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview, 1985-2000. Vol. 3, Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant. L. E. Stager and J. D. Schloen, eds. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. [in press]