Prof. Avraham (Avi) Faust

Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Avraham (Avi) Faust is Professor of archaeology at the Martin (Szusz) department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Bar-Ilan University and thethe director of its excavations at Tel ‘Eton. He holds a Ph.D. in archaeology from Bar Ilan University. Among his many publications are Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance, The Archaeology of the Israelite Society in the Iron Age II, and Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation.

Last Updated: November 10, 2026

Books by the Author

Israel's Ethnogenesis (Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology)

Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation

The Excavations of Khirbet er-Rasm, Israel: The Changing Faces of the Countryside

The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II

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Articles by Author

Houses Oriented Towards God in the East

Using archaeology, anthropology, and biblical Hebrew to explain why ancient Israelites overwhelmingly placed their doorways on the eastern side of their homes and avoided placing them on the west.