Pardes News — Pardes Alumnus Wins Davies Award in Archeology

Mazel tov to Pardes alumnus Dr. Matthew Susnow (Year ’06-’07), winner of the 2019 Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Researcher Publication Award!

“The Palestine Exploration Fund is pleased to announce that Dr. Matthew Susnow’s entry—‘Liminality and Canaanite Cultic Spaces: Temple Entrances, Status Transformations and Ritual in Threshold Contexts’—has been selected for the 2019 Davies Award. Dr. Susnow summarised the essay thus:

This article investigates the applicability of the concept of liminality to the archaeological analysis of temple thresholds, with a primary focus on the Bronze Age southern Levant.”

To read the official announcement online, click here.