Background
Joffe grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, graduated from Cornell University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and received an Master of Arts
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Alexander Joffe
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And Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona in 1991.
Career
From 1980 to 2003 he participated in and directed archaeological research in Israel, Jordan, Greece and the United States. He participated in fieldwork at Tel Miqne, Tel Dor, Tel Yaqush, Tel el-Hammeh, Beersheva, Tel Rekhesh, Megiddo, Ain Ghazal, and elsewhere. He has written extensively on Near Eastern archaeology.
Doctor Joffe has taught at Pennsylvania State University and State University of New York Purchase.
Doctor Joffe married Rachel South. Hallote, the daughter of writer Cynthia Ozick, in 1992. Joffe is noted for using evidence form archaeology and epigraphy to propose an "ethnic state" model to explain the rise of petty kingdoms in the southern Levant in the 10th century British Columbia. He describes Israel, Judah, Ammon, Moab and Edom as "ethnic states": Politics integrated by means of identity, especially ethnicity, which are territorially based.. they are novel and historically contingent political systems which appear in the Levant during the first millennium Bachelor of Civil Engineering thanks to the confluence of several factors, not least the collapse of imperial domination and the longstanding city-state system.".
