Selected Publications

Books

Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2008. Ramla (South): An Early Islamic Industrial Site and Remains of Previous Periods. Salvage Excavation Reports 5. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology.

Tal, O. 2006. The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. (Hebrew).
       Tal, O. 2009. The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal (Revised 2nd        edition/electronic edition). Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. (Hebrew).

Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2006. The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC: A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine. Collezioni Numismatiche 6. Milan: Ennerre.

Fischer, M., Gichon, M. and Tal, O. 2000. 'En Boqeq: Excavations in an Oasis on the Dead Sea. Volume II: The Officina - An Early Roman Building on the Dead Sea Shore. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.

Roll, O. and Tal, O. 1999. Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations. Volume I: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods (with Appendices on the Chalcolithic and Iron Age II Remains). Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 16. Tel Aviv.

Books Edited

Roll, I., Tal, O. and Winter, M. 2007. The Encounter of Crusaders and Muslims in Palestine as Reflected in Arsuf, Sayyiduna 'Ali and Other Coastal Sites. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz HaMeuchad. (Hebrew).

Selected Recent Articles

Tal, O. 2009. Hellenism in Transition from Empire to Kingdom: Changes in the Material Culture of Hellenistic Palestine. In: Levine, L. I. and Schwartz, D. R. eds. Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 130. Tübingen. Pp. 55-73.

Tal, O. 2009. On the Identification of the Ships of kzd/ry of the Erased Customs Account from Elephantine. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68: 1-8.

Tal, O. and Fantalkin, A. 2009. The Area of Tel Aviv in the First Millennium BCE: Between Kingdoms and Empires. In: Ayalon, E. ed. The Hidden History of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv. Pp. 81-111. (Hebrew).

Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2009. A New Greek Inscription from Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf / Sozousa: A Reassessment of the Eis Teos Monos Inscriptions of Palestine. Scripta Classica Israelica 28: 139-147.

Galor, K., Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2009. Apollonia-Arsuf: Between Past and Future. Near Eastern Archaeology 72: 4-27.

Tal, O. 2008. Cult in Transition from Achaemenid to Greek Rule: The Contribution of Achaemenid-Ptolemaic Temples of Palestine. Transeuphratène 36: 165-183.

Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. A Villa of the Early Roman Period at Apollonia-Arsuf. Israel Exploration Journal 58: 132-149.

Gitler, H., Ponting, M. and Tal, O. 2008. Metallurgical Analysis of Southern Palestinian Coins of the Persian Period. Israel Numismatic Research 3: 13-27.

Freestone, I.C., Jackson-Tal, R.E. and Tal, O. 2008. Raw Glass and the Production of Glass Vessels at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Journal of Glass Study 50: 67-80.

Tal, O., Jackson-Tal, R.E. and Freestone, I.C. 2008. Glass from a Late Byzantine Secondary Workshop at Ramla (South), Israel. Journal of Glass Study 50: 81-95.

Fischer, M., Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. Persian and Hellenistic Remains at Tel Ya'oz. Tel Aviv 35: 123-163.

Tal, O. 2007. Coin Denominations and Weight Standards in Fourth-Century BCE Palestine. Israel Numismatic Research 2: 17-28.

Gitler, H., Tal, O. and van Alfen, P. 2007. Silver Dome-shaped Coins from Persian-period Southern Palestine. Israel Numismatic Research 2: 47-62.

Tal, O. 2007. Some Observations on the Manufacturing Traditions in the Wooden and Stone Vessel Industry in Hellenistic Palestine. Topoi Supplément 8: 173-187.

Tal, O. 2007. Eretz-Israel during the Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Perspective. Qadmoniot 133: 2-14. (Hebrew).

Tal, O. 2007. [Several Chapters]. In: Beit-Arieh, I. ed. Horvat 'Uza and Horvat Radum: Two Fortresses in the Biblical Negev. Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 25. Tel Aviv.

Lipschits, O. and Tal, O. 2007. The Settlement Archaeology of the Province of Judah: A Case Study. In: Lipschits, O., Knoppers, G. and Albertz, R. eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. Winona Lake. Pp. 33-52.

Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2006. Coins with the Aramaic Legend Šhrw and Other Unrecorded Samarian Issues. Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau 85: 47-68.

Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2006. Redating Lachish Level I: Identifying Achaemenid Imperial Policy at the Southern Frontier of the Fifth Satrapy. In: Lipschits, O. and Oeming, M. eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Winona Lake. Pp. 167-197.

Tal, O. 2005. Some Remarks on the Coastal Plain of Palestine under Achaemenid Rule - An Archaeological Synopsis. Persika 6: 71-96.

Tal, O. 2005. Persian Period Remains at Rishon Le-Zion. Salvage Excavation Reports 2: 30-37.

Tal, O., Fischer, M. and Roll, I. 2005. Persian and Hellenistic Remains at Tel Ya'oz - Towards the Identification of Hellenistic Gazara. In: Fischer, M. ed. Yavneh, Yavneh-Yam and Their Neighborhood - Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Judean Coastal Plain. Tel Aviv. Pp. 259-302. (Hebrew, English Abstract p. XX).

Tal, O., Jackson-Tal, R.E. and Freestone, I.C. 2004. New Evidence of the Production of Raw Glass at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Journal of Glass Study 46: 51-66.

Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2004. The Persian and Hellenistic Pottery of Level I. In: Ussishkin, D. ed. The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish 1973-1994. Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 22. Tel Aviv. Pp. 2174-2194.

Tal, O. 2003. On the Origin and Concept of the Loculi Tombs of Hellenistic Palestine. Ancient West & East 2: 288-307.

Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2003. The 'Yannai Line' (BJ I, 99-100; AJ XIII, 390-91): Reality or Fiction? Palestine Exploration Quarterly 135: 108-123.

Tal, O. 2003. Some Cultural Trends in Plain Black Attic Imports Found in the Coastal Plain of Palestine. In: Schmaltz, B. and Söldner, M. eds. Griechische Keramik im kulturellen Kontext. Akten des Internationalen Vasen-Symposions in Kiel vom 24.bis 28.9.2001. Münster. Pp. 271-273.

Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2003. Architectural Decoration in Ancient Israel in Hellenistic Times: Some Aspects of Hellenization. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 119: 19-37 (Pls. 2-6).

Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2003. A Fourth-Century BCE Attic Marble Totenmahlrelief at Apollonia-Arsuf. Israel Exploration Journal 53: 49-60.

Barkay, G., Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2002. A Late Iron Age Fortress North of Jerusalem. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 328: 49-71.


M.A. Students

Marcio Teixeira Bastos, in preparation. Early Christianization in Roman Palestine: The Case of Apollonia-Arsuf (co-supervisor – M. I. D. A. Fleming [University of Sao Paulo])

Ido Gourdin, in preparation. The Architectural Origins of the Crusader Castle of Arsur (Apollonia-Arsuf) (co-supervisor – A. J. Boas [University of Haifa])

Gennady Lerner, in preparation. The Classical Periods Settlement of Malhata/Malatha (co-supervisor - M. Fischer)

Lee Perry, in preparation. The Route Network and Sites in Southern Palestine between the Rule of Alexander Jannaeus (104 BCE) and the Foundation of Provincia Arabia (106 CE) as a Case-study for the Understanding of Judaean-Nabataean Interactions (co-supervisor - M. Fischer)

Ph.D. Students

Meir Edrey, in preparation. Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean under Achaemenid and Greek Rule: Social and Cultural Perspectives in Light of Archaeological Research (Universitaet Mainz, co-supervisors - R. Buhl, W. Zwickel)