Ehud Netzer (1934-2010), scholar

Ehud Netzer (b.1934) is an Israeli scholar.

Biography

Ehud Netzer is a scholar and an archaeologist. Currently he is Professor emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Netzer is an expert on Herodian architecture. He led excavations at Masada, Sepphoris, Jericho, and the Herodium (where he located the tomb of Herod the Great).

Books

• Greater Herodium (1981 Netzer), book
• Armonot ha-Hashmonaim ve-Hordus ha-Gadol (1999 Netzer), book
  • Die Paläste der Hasmonäer und Herodes' des Grossen (1999 Netzer), book (German ed.)
  • The Palaces of the Hasmonaeans and Herod the Great (2001 Netzer), book (English ed.)
• Hasmonean and Herodian Palaces at Jericho (2001-2008 Netzer), book
• The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder (2006 Netzer), book