Davida Eisenberg‐Degen

Biographic Data

ID6523586
NAMEDavida Eisenberg‐Degen
GIVEN NAMESDavida
FAMILY NAMEEisenberg‐Degen
SIGNATUREDEGEN D E
AFFILIATIONSIsrael Antiquities Authority
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Before God: Reconstructing Ritual in the Desert in Proto-Historic Times

    Open AccessDavida Eisenberg‐Degen, Roy Galili et al.ARTICLEEntangled Religions2021References: 20

    Archaeological remains are a trove of potential data which, together with the study of ritual, enable reconstruction and evaluation of social and religious structures and complexity. Concentrating on the Timnian culture (sixth to late third millennium BCE) of the Southern Levant deserts, we review the changes that took place with the adoption of the domesticated goat, noting the contrast between habitation sites and ritual related megalithic monu…

  • Identifying a Dionysian Community in Ashkelon's Eastern Cemetery

    Davida Eisenberg-Degen, Davida Eisenberg‐Degen et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2019References: 10

    Grave goods recovered from Roman Ashkelon’s Eastern Cemetery help not only to date the burials but also to enlighten us as to the deceased’s faith and the funerary customs of this period. The finds from two recently excavated funerary contexts are presented here. They include a bronze handle in the shape of a panther and a mosaic depicting five pine cones, both Dionysian symbols. Dionysus was a god of wine, fertility, ritual madness, religious ec…

  • Signposts in the Landscape: Marks and Identity among the Negev Highland Bedouin

    Open AccessDavida Eisenberg-Degen, Davida Eisenberg‐Degen et al.ARTICLENomadic Peoples2018Cited by: 1

    Over the course of the past millennia, pastoral nomads migrated from the Arabian Peninsula and neighbouring regions into the Negev desert. Particularly with the last major wave of Bedouin migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these groups introduced the 'Bedouin Phase' into Negev rock art, a tradition that was central to the Negev Bedouin culture up until the mid to late twentieth century. The 'Bedouin Phase' is mostly made up of …

  • Rock Engravings as Text: Territorial Assertions on the Walls of the En Nusra Cave in Avdat, Israel

    Joshua Schmidt, Davida Eisenberg‐DegenARTICLETime and Mind2015References: 22

    This paper examines a collection of markings that were created over the past few centuries in the Negev Highlands in southern Israel. The markings were etched onto the walls of a vestibule of a 3rd century CE Late Roman burial cave in the site of Avdat (ancient Oboda). The cave was known in Bedouin Arabic as En Nusra. The data may be divided into three main language groups – Hebrew, English, and Bedouin Wusum (tribal symbols) – each with its own …

  • A petroglyph of a smiting pharaoh in the Negev

    Open AccessDavida Eisenberg‐DegenARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2015References: 1

    A petroglyph of a smiting pharaoh located in the Central Negev may offer new evidence of contact with pharaonic Egypt. With a schematic enemy, the pharaoh is the centre of the composition emphasising the message of strength and dominance

  • Hunting and Gender as Reflected in the Central Negev Rock Art, Israel

    Davida Eisenberg-Degen, Davida Eisenberg‐Degen et al.ARTICLETime and Mind2014Cited by: 3References: 13

    There are thousands of panels with hundreds of thousands of petroglyphs that occupy the rock outcropping of the Negev Highlands in southern Israel. These include abstract, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic elements, which are sometimes presented as hunting scenes. In this paper we will define hunting scene, review the themes and relate these figures to the economy, mundane, and spiritual realms of the artist. We argue that a clear panel grammar is i…