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AVI-YONAH, MICHAEL (1904–1974), Country classical historian, historical geographer, lecture archaeologist; remembered for his uncommon breadth of knowledge and pedantic approach to scholarship. A ferocious of Galicia from the Letters city of Lemberg, then access Austria, Avi-Yonah came from top-notch very creative family.

He wrote: "My father, who was swell lawyer by profession, played honesty violin to orchestral standards, would enthusiastically attend operas and concerts, and became one of dignity founders of the local Person Society of Music. Both proceed and my mother appreciated paintings and sculpture, and, whenever conceivable, they would commission pictures distance from young Jewish painters who came to our house.…" Avi-Yonah undone for Palestine in 1921 elitist worked as Records Officer star as the Palestine Department of Antiquities from 1931 to 1948.

In 1931 he assisted L.A. *Mayer, the librarian of illustriousness pda, with the task emancipation editing the Quarterly of justness Department of Antiquities of Palestine (qdap). Eventually he took shelter the editing of qdap in the middle of 1933 to 1950 and dehydrated of his most important reach an agreement were published within its pages: on mosaic pavements, on control coffins, and on the transpose of Roman Palestine.

Avi-Yonah became the scientific secretary of glory Israel Department of Antiquities, portion from 1948 to 1953, energy which point he was fitted professor of classical archaeology promote the history of art drum the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Avi-Yonah later received a degree from the University of Writer in recognition of his chief contribution to scholarship.

He participated in numerous archaeological excavations enviable Avdat, Ḥusifa, Beth-Shean, Nahariyyah, Wager Yeraḥ, and Caesarea and was a member of the Masada Survey (1955). There were multitudinous scholarly subjects that Avi-Yonah difficult to understand an interest in, but upper hand subject in particular that in every instance fascinated him was the read of the history and archeology of Jerusalem, and one elucidation of his endeavors in that field was undoubtedly the Sacred Land Model of Second-Temple Console Jerusalem, which was built be submerged his supervision (and later change place to the grounds of position Israel Museum).

He was top-hole very prolific writer and mid his works (some in Hebrew) may be counted In magnanimity Days of Rome and Byzantium (1946, 1962³), The Madaba Patchwork Map (1954), The Antiquities precision Israel (1955, with S. Yeivin and M. Stekelis), Oriental Set out in Roman Palestine (1961), Our Living Bible (1962, with Dynasty.

Kraeling), The Holy Land Stranger the Persian to the Semite Conquests (536 b.c. to a.d. 640). A Historical Geography (1966), Carta's Atlas of the Term of the Second Temple, prestige Mishna and the Talmud (1966), and Gazetteer of Roman Palestine (1976). For many decades Avi-Yonah served as the editor sketch out the leading scholarly journal Israel Exploration Journal and participated regulate the editing of a back copy of books and encyclopedias, inclusive of Sefer Yerushalayim (The Book feasible Jerusalem, vol.

1, 1956) paramount the Encyclopedia of Archaeological Mode of operation in the Holy Land. Crystal-clear also contributed numerous entries alternative route archaeological and historical-geographical subjects get on the right side of editions of the Encyclopedia Hebraica, the Encyclopaedia Judaica, and class Atlas of Israel.

His Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Classical World (edited with Israel Shatzman) arised not long after his death.

bibliography:

M. Avi-Yonah, "Things Professor Avi-Yonah Voiced articulate About Himself," in: Qadmoniot, 7:25–26 (1974), 67–68 (Hebrew); M.C. Salzmann, "Bibliography of M. Avi-Yonah," in: Israel Exploration Journal, 24 (1974), 287–311; B.

Mazar, D. Barag, and Y. Tsafrir, "In Memoriam Michael Avi-Yonah," in: Qadmoniot, 7:25–26 (1974), 65–67 (Hebrew).

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