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Trude Dothan
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli archaeologist who focused on the late bronze and iron ages in the region”. Today it says “professor of archaeology at the hebrew university”.
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Trude Dothan, December 2007 Trude Dothan ( ; 12 October 1922 – 28 January 2016) was an Israeli archaeologist who focused on the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the region, in particular in Philistine culture.1 A professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1977, she held the Eliezer Sukenik Chair of Archeology and headed the Berman Center of Biblical Archaeology. Her private collection of books is now in the Lanier Theological Library , Houston, Texas.2
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israeli archaeologist who focused on the late bronze and iron ages in the region
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professor of archaeology at the hebrew university
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