Lawrence Stager
| Lawrence E. Stager | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 5, 1943 |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA (1965), MA (1972), PhD (1975) |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub discipline |
Syro-Palestinian archaeology Hebrew Bible |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Lawrence E. "Larry" Stager (born January 5, 1943) is an American archaeologist and academic, specialising in Syro-Palestinian archaeology and Biblical archaeology. He the is Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and is Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum. Since 1985 he has overseen the excavations of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, the Philistine port city.
Stager was a first-generation college student from Kenton, Ohio, about fifty miles northwest of Columbus, Ohio. He was recruited by the Harvard Club of Dayton, Ohio to attend Harvard University, where he graduated a BA magna cum laude in 1965. Stager then received both his MA and PhD from Harvard, where he worked largely under the supervision of Frank Moore Cross and G. Ernest Wright, both students of William F. Albright. The title of his thesis was "Ancient Agriculture in the Judaean Desert: A Case Study of the Buqê'ah Valley in the Iron Age."
After receiving his PhD, Stager was first employed by the University of Chicago, where he taught and researched for the next fourteen years as a member of the Oriental Institute, first as an instructor (1973-4), then as an assistant (1974-6), associate (1976–1985), and finally full professor (1985-6).
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