Lawrence Stager
Lawrence Stager | |
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| Born | January 5, 1943 Dunkirk, Ohio, US |
| Died | December 29, 2017 (aged 74) Concord, Massachusetts, US |
| Title | Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA (1965), MA (1972), PhD (1975) |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Syro-Palestinian archaeology Hebrew Bible |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Lawrence E. "Larry" Stager (January 5, 1943 – December 29, 2017) was an American archaeologist and academic, specialising in Syro-Palestinian archaeology and Biblical archaeology. He was the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and was Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum. Beginning in 1985 he oversaw the excavations of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, the Philistine port city.