Avraham Biran was an Israeli archaeologist, best known for heading excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel for more than 30 years. Biran received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, studying under the dean of Near Eastern scholarship, William F. Albright. Biran knew Sir William Flinders Petrie, the father of modern Near Eastern archaeology.

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  • Avraham Biran was an Israeli archaeologist, best known for heading excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel for more than 30 years. Biran received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, studying under the dean of Near Eastern scholarship, William F. Albright. Biran knew Sir William Flinders Petrie, the father of modern Near Eastern archaeology. In addition to leading the Tel Dan excavation, Biran dug at numerous sites in Israel, British Mandate-era Palestine and in Iraq, and he headed the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem for many years.
  • Avraham Biran war ein israelischer Archäologe. 1934 machte er seinen Master an der Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, 1935 seinen Doktor. Er war Direktor des Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums. 1966 begann er mit Ausgrabungen am Tel Dan, wo er 1993 die Tel-Dan-Inschrift entdeckte. Er war Direktor der Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology am Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.
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  • Avraham Biran was an Israeli archaeologist, best known for heading excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel for more than 30 years. Biran received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, studying under the dean of Near Eastern scholarship, William F. Albright. Biran knew Sir William Flinders Petrie, the father of modern Near Eastern archaeology.
  • Avraham Biran war ein israelischer Archäologe. 1934 machte er seinen Master an der Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, 1935 seinen Doktor. Er war Direktor des Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums. 1966 begann er mit Ausgrabungen am Tel Dan, wo er 1993 die Tel-Dan-Inschrift entdeckte. Er war Direktor der Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology am Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.
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