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Dr. Leah Di Segni (Campagnano)

Curriculum Vitae


Name: Leah (Campagnano) Di Segni
Date of Birth: October 14, 1947
Place of birth: Carpi (Modena), Italy
Marital status: Divorced, one child
Nationality: Israeli and Italian
1969 Licensed at School of Archivistics and Palaeography at the State Archive in Modena
1970 Doctor of Letters ‘summa cum laude’ at the University of Bologna, with the dissertation ‘Economia e cultura della città etrusca di Marzabotto’
July 20, 1970 ‘Aliyah
1970-72 Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1971-1973 Research assistant, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working on research project: The Onomasticon of Eretz-Israel in Greek and Roman Sources
1973-1975 Research assistant, Institute of Modern History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working on research project: Jewish Newspapers in Europe and the Ascent of Nazism, 1930-1940
1975- Research assistant, editor, and since 2002 principal editor of research project: The Onomasticon of Iudaea-Palaestina and Arabia in Greek and Roman Sources at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1980-1994 Working as co-editor in research project: Tabula Imperii Romani: Judaea-Palaestina
1983-1987 Research assistant, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working on research project: Justinian, Jews and Samaritans
1991- Instructor in Greek Epigraphy at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University
1992 Assistant project editor of The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, English edition (Jerusalem 1993)
1996/7 Instructor in Greek Epigraphy at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa
1997-2000 Editor (with Y. Tsafrir) of the Hebrew edition of The Onomasticon of Iudaea-Palaestina and Arabia in Greek and Roman Sources, on behalf of Yad Yizhak Ben Zvi
1997/8 PhD with a dissertation on Dated Greek Inscriptions from Palestine from the Roman and Byzantine Periods (summa cum laude)
1998- Initiator and one of the principal editors of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae-Palaestinae. The project received the approval of the Israel Academy of Sciences and a three-year grant for the years 1999-2001 from the German-Israel Fund, and is now carried on with a twelve-year grant of the DFG.
2000- Instructor in Historical Geography at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University
2000/1 Member of research group at the Centre for the Study of Christianity of the Hebrew University, with a grant for research of female monasticism in the Holy Land.
2002/3 Member of annual seminary ‘A Civilization of Epigraphy’, at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University
2005/6 Instructor in Historical Geography at the Department of Bible and Ancient Near eastern Studies of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2007/8 Instructor of a tutorial of Advanced Greek Epigraphy at the Department of Classical Studies, Hebrew University

Lectures at International Conferences


1990 Mutual Relations between Samaritans, Jews and Christians in Byzantine Palestine, as Revealed through the Epigraphic Finds. Second International Congress of Samaritan Studies, Oxford (see below, III: 37).
1992 Greek Inscriptions in the Bath-house at Hammat Gader. ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, Third International Conference: The Decapolis, Oxford (see below, III: 25).
1995 Metropolis and Provincia in Byzantine Palestine. Caesarea Maritima: Retrospective After Two Millennia, Caesarea (see below, III: 40).
1996 The Samaritans in Roman-Byzantine Palestine: Some Misapprehensions. Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (see below, III: 48).
1997 Eusebius' Onomastikon and the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map Centenary, 1897-1997, Amman (see below, III: 52).
1997 Nuove scoperte epigrafiche a Scythopolis e in altri centri della Palestina tardoantica. XI Congresso Internazionale di Epigrafia Greca e Latina, Roma (see below, III: 53).
1998 Monk and Society: the Case of Palestine. The Sabaite Heritage, Jerusalem (see below, III: 61).
1998 A Georgian Chronological System in Sixth-Century Jerusalem? Oriental Monasticism, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1999 Comunità etniche e correnti religiose nella Palestina bizantina alla luce della documentazione epigrafica. IV Congresso Mondiale dell'Associazione Biblica Salesiana, Cremisan (see below, III: 58).
2000 A New Samaritan Synagogue on Mount Carmel. Fourth International Congress of Samaritan Studies, Helsinki
2002 A New Fragment of the Beersheba Tax Edict, XII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Barcelona (see below, III: 101).
2003 Greek Inscriptions in Transition from the Byzantine to the Early Islamic Period. Epigraphy and Beyond: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Near East from Hellenism to Islam, Jerusalem (see below, III: 102).
2003 Monastero, città e villaggio nella Gaza bizantina. XI Convegno Ecumenico Internazionale di spiritualità ortodossa, Bose (Italy) (see below, III:78-79).
2004 The Use of Chronological Systems in 6th-8th c. Palestine. ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, Twentieth International Conference: Palestinian Christianity, Oxford (see below, III: 98).
2005 On the Development of Christian Cult Sites on Tombs of the Second Temple Period. ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, Twenty-first International Conference: Pilgrimages and Shrines in the Syrian Orient, Oxford (see below, III: 99)
2006 Epigraphic Finds Reveal New Chapters in the History of the Sixth-Century Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 years of Archaeological Research, Brown University, Providence, RI (see below, III, 111).
2006 A Third-century Christian cultic Hall in Megiddo: the Epigraphic Finds. ASOR Annual Meeting, Washington DC.