Shimon Gibson

Shimon Gibson
Born United Kingdom
Occupation Archaeologist, senior fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research

Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in Israel.[1]

Life

Gibson obtained a PhD in landscape archaeology in the southern Levant from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.[1] He is currently a Senior Associate Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and an adjunct Professor of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[1][2]

Shimon Gibson was the lead archeologist excavating the wilderness cave of John the Baptist in 2000 and later wrote The Cave of John the Baptist.[3] He leads the team that found a 10-line ritual cup at Mount Zion.[4][5]

He is the editor of The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible[6] and was co-editor, with Avraham Negev, of the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land.[7] In his The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence (2009)[8] he advanced the theory that Jesus was killed for acts of healing.[9]

Gibson has appeared in a number of biblical archaeology documentaries.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shimon Gibson, Harper Collins author biography, accessed Dec 23, 2011
  2. ↑ Albright Institute, list of fellows, accessed Dec 23, 2011
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Bible-Era Mystery Vessel Found -- Code Stumps Experts
  5. ↑ Shimon Gibson - Director
  6. ↑ Archeologists: Shimon Gibson
  7. ↑ Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land
  8. ↑ Shimon Gibson from HarperCollins Publishers (HarperOne, 2009)
  9. ↑ Why Was Jesus Killed? Shimon Gibson’s Take
  10. ↑ IMDB Shimon Gibson


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