Ronny Reich

Ronny Reich ( born March 31, 1947 in Rehovot ) is an Israeli archaeologist.

Life

Ronny Reich mother Herta Reich, born Eisler, came from the Austrian Miirzzuschlag. She was the only surviving Austrian the Kladovo transport. Your husband Romek kingdom she learned on her six -year-long escape and married him 1941. 1944 finally were able to enter Palestine. Romek Empire fell in July 1948 at Ludd during the Palestine War.

Reich studied archeology and geography at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His master's thesis dealt with Yigael Yadin Assyrian architecture in the Land of Israel (1975). On this subject he later published several essays.

His involvement in the excavations in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (1969-1978), headed by Nahman Avigad, led to a change in its interests, away from the Iron Age, through to the early Roman period. He finished his 1990 dissertation entitled " Mikwa'ot in Eretz Israel in the days of the Temple runner, Mishnah and Talmud " Nahman Avigad in Israel and L. Levine. The work is based on finds from the excavations in the Jewish Quarter.

Between 1978 and 1995 was poor in the Israeli Antiquities Authority (Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums of Israel, later Israel Antiquities Authority ) as Head of the scientific archive ( 1978 to 1985 ) and archeology of the area (1986 ) worked. 1995 Empire left the antiquities authority and became a teacher of Classical Archaeology at the University of Haifa. He was promoted to ' Associate ' Professor, in 2006 for 'Full' professor in 2002. From 2002 to 2005 he headed the archaeological department.

Excavations and discoveries

As of 1989, Reich began with her own excavations. All of his excavations he led in the Old City of Jerusalem by:

  • Graves from the late Iron Age and the Byzantine Period in the Mamillahgegend. Here is a mass grave of the Christian population of Jerusalem was discovered, which were killed by the Sassanids 614 AD. Other finds are an extramural quarter of the Byzantine city with a spa. Immediately under the Ottoman city wall was a long segment of the Ayyubid city wall of 13 yrs. exposed AD.
  • Between 1994 and 1996, together with Ya'akov Billig, a 70 m long section of the Herodian street along the western wall of the Temple Mount under the Robinson was excavated and exposed arc. Together with Yuval Baruch, a small area was excavated at the southern wall of the Temple Mount, in the eastern Hulda gates.
  • His most important archaeological and performance have been carried out between 1995 and 2010, together with Eli Shukron, at the Southeast hills of the city, identified with the city of David. On the southwestern slope of the City of David, the eastern part of a stone built pond was exposed. The pond was identified with the pool of Siloam, which is mentioned in the New Testament ( Jn 9,11 EU). In addition, the southern end of the main street of the Herodian city was exposed and the main drainage channel underneath. The channel (the actual cloaca maxima of the Herodian city) was then exposed to near the Temple Mount ( c. 600 m long) and is now available.
  • Particularly important are the excavations next to the Gihon Spring on the eastern side of the city. Here are several parts of the so-called were uncovered " Warren's Shaft", which was discovered in 1867. There are parts of a huge attachment ( receive up to 7 m thick, and up to 8 m ), and thereto unknown, hewn out of the rock installations. These findings enabled a new interpretation for the construction and operation of the water system of the Middle Bronze Age city (MFN II, 18th - 17th century BC) the city. It has been shown that the Warren's shaft itself was not a part of the system. In contrast, a large pond -like plant was found where the water was drawn.
  • Another important discovery in the source was a large pile of manure. By carefully screening a large number of seal impressions was ( with graphical representations, no Semitic letters) and a very large amount of fish bones found, dated to the late 9th century and the beginning of the 8th century BC

Awards

  • 2000 Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology
  • 2012 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class

Writings (selection )

  • Invitation to Archaeology, Chapters in Theoretical Archaeology, Dvir Publishing House, Tel- Aviv, 1995 (Hebrew ).
  • Excavating the City of David, The Place where the History of Jerusalem Started, The Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 2011 (2011 was also published a Hebrew version of Yad Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem).
  • Miqwa'ot ( Ritual Baths) in the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud Periods (Hebrew), based on my Ph.D., Ben- Zvi Institute, Jerusalem ( in press).

Translations

Empire translated texts to the old architecture and art, plays and poems into Hebrew.

  • Bertolt Brecht: Refugee calls ( 1996)
  • Andrea Palladio: I Quatro Libri dell'Architettura (2000)
  • Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola: Regola delli Cinque Ordini d' Architettura (2002)
  • Ross King: Brunelleschi 's Dome (2003)
  • Christian Morgenstern: Gallows Songs ( 2004)
  • Louis Hugues Vincent: Underground Jerusalem ( 2008)
  • Pliny the Elder: Naturalis Historia (books 33-37 ) (2009 )
  • Herta Empire: Two days time, the escape of a Mürzzuschlager Jewess (1938-1944) (2009)
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