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'''Jodi Magness''' (born September 19, 1956) is an ], orientalist and scholar of religion. She serves as the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the ]. She previously taught at ]. '''Jodi Magness''' (born September 19, 1956) is an American ], orientalist and scholar of religion. She serves as the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the ]. She previously taught at ].


== Early life and education == == Early life and education ==
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Magness is a popular professor whose "unique teaching style of using vivid anecdotes students on the edge of their seats".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2007/04/students_enraptured_by_magness_teaching_style|title=Students enraptured by Magness' teaching style|first=Deborah|last=Nefta|publisher=The Daily Tar Heel|date=April 11, 2007|access-date=April 16, 2011}}</ref> Magness is a popular professor whose "unique teaching style of using vivid anecdotes students on the edge of their seats".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2007/04/students_enraptured_by_magness_teaching_style|title=Students enraptured by Magness' teaching style|first=Deborah|last=Nefta|publisher=The Daily Tar Heel|date=April 11, 2007|access-date=April 16, 2011}}</ref>

⚫ Magness has strongly criticized the docu-drama '']'' of ] and ], stating that "at the time of ], wealthy families buried their dead in ]s cut by hand from solid rock, putting the bones in niches in the walls and then, later, transferring them to ]". Whereas "Jesus came from a poor family that, like most ]s of the time, probably buried their dead in ordinary graves. If Jesus' family had been wealthy enough to afford a rock-cut tomb, it would have been in ], not ]", she said. Magness also said the names on the Talpiyot ossuaries "indicate that the tomb belonged to a family from ], the area around Jerusalem, where people were known by their first name and father's name. As ], Jesus and his family members would have used their first name and hometown."<ref>{{cite news|last=Cooperman|first=Alan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2007/02/28/lost-tomb-of-jesus-claim-called-a-stunt-span-classbankheadarchaeologists-decry-tv-film-span/5a478bd4-7724-4557-aa29-b83aae36dccc/|title='Lost Tomb of Jesus' Claim Called a Stunt|date=February 28, 2007|newspaper=Washington Post|page=A03}}</ref>


Magness has been a guest on the ]'s '']'', a documentary television series exploring religious beliefs across cultures around the world. Magness has been a guest on the ]'s '']'', a documentary television series exploring religious beliefs across cultures around the world.

===Criticism of ''The Lost Tomb of Jesus''===
⚫ Magness has strongly criticized the docu-drama '']'' of ] and ], stating that "at the time of ], wealthy families buried their dead in ]s cut by hand from solid rock, putting the bones in niches in the walls and then, later, transferring them to ]". Whereas "Jesus came from a poor family that, like most ]s of the time, probably buried their dead in ordinary graves. If Jesus' family had been wealthy enough to afford a rock-cut tomb, it would have been in ], not ]", she said. Magness also said the names on the Talpiyot ossuaries "indicate that the tomb belonged to a family from ], the area around Jerusalem, where people were known by their first name and father's name. As ], Jesus and his family members would have used their first name and hometown."<ref>{{cite news|last=Cooperman|first=Alan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2007/02/28/lost-tomb-of-jesus-claim-called-a-stunt-span-classbankheadarchaeologists-decry-tv-film-span/5a478bd4-7724-4557-aa29-b83aae36dccc/|title='Lost Tomb of Jesus' Claim Called a Stunt|date=February 28, 2007|newspaper=Washington Post|page=A03}}</ref>


==Honors and awards== ==Honors and awards==
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American archaeologist and scholar of ancient Judaism
Jodi Magness
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Professor, archaeologist
EmployerUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TitleKenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism
Websitewww.jodimagness.org

Jodi Magness (born September 19, 1956) is an American archaeologist, orientalist and scholar of religion. She serves as the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously taught at Tufts University.

Early life and education

Magness received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977), and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989).

Academic career

From 1990 to 1992, Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University. She also taught at Tufts University before joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism.

Magness has participated in 20 different excavations in Israel and Greece. She co-directed the 1995 excavations of the Roman siege works at Masada. From 1997 to 1999 she co-directed excavations at Khirbet Yattir in Israel. Since 2003 Professor Magness has been the co-director of the excavations in the late Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. In 2011 she began to dig at Huqoq.

Magness is a popular professor whose "unique teaching style of using vivid anecdotes students on the edge of their seats".

Magness has been a guest on the National Geographic Channel's The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, a documentary television series exploring religious beliefs across cultures around the world.

Criticism of The Lost Tomb of Jesus

Magness has strongly criticized the docu-drama The Lost Tomb of Jesus of James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici, stating that "at the time of Jesus, wealthy families buried their dead in tombs cut by hand from solid rock, putting the bones in niches in the walls and then, later, transferring them to ossuaries". Whereas "Jesus came from a poor family that, like most Jews of the time, probably buried their dead in ordinary graves. If Jesus' family had been wealthy enough to afford a rock-cut tomb, it would have been in Nazareth, not Jerusalem", she said. Magness also said the names on the Talpiyot ossuaries "indicate that the tomb belonged to a family from Judea, the area around Jerusalem, where people were known by their first name and father's name. As Galileans, Jesus and his family members would have used their first name and hometown."

Honors and awards

She was American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of 2019.

Books

Jodi Magness, as an author, has published various works:

  • The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021)
  • Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth, Princeton University Press (May 14, 2019)
  • Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011)
  • The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003), 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize.
  • The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002) – winner of the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society's Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology and an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine.
  • Debating Qumran: Collected Essays on Its Archaeology (Leuven: Peeters, 2004); Hesed ve-Emet, Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (co-edited with S. Gitin; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998)
  • Jerusalem Ceramic Chronology circa 200–800 C.E. (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1993)

See also

References

  1. "Jodi Magness". Department of Religious Studies. University of North Carolina. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  2. Nefta, Deborah (April 11, 2007). "Students enraptured by Magness' teaching style". The Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  3. Cooperman, Alan (February 28, 2007). "'Lost Tomb of Jesus' Claim Called a Stunt". Washington Post. p. A03.
  4. "2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election". members.amacad.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-02.
  5. Altschuler, Glenn (5 June 2019). "Book review: A noble death? (book review)". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

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