Amihai Mazar
Amihai "Ami" Mazar (Hebrew: עמיחי מזר; born November 19, 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine), he has been since 1994 a professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel.
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| Born | Amihai Mazar November 19, 1942 Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Relatives | Benjamin Mazar (uncle) |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
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| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
His Archaeology of the Land of the Bible is a widely used textbook for Israelite archaeology in universities.
Mazar's work has resulted in the Modified Conventional Chronology being the most widely accepted framework for the Israelite chronology during the Iron Age period.
Mazar is married with three children and resides in Jerusalem. He is the nephew of Benjamin Mazar, one of the first generation of pioneering Israeli archaeologists after Independence, and cousin to the late archaeologist Eilat Mazar.