Background
Adam Zertal grew up in Ein Shemer, a kibbutz affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
anthropologist archaeologist Biblical scholar
Adam Zertal grew up in Ein Shemer, a kibbutz affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
Zertal was severely wounded in the Yom Kippur War. He later told a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, “I spent a year at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and I became interested in archaeology. Although I had argued that the Bible was full of myths, I decided after my recovery to travel the land by foot to look for archeological evidence.”
Zertal identified a structure on Mount Ebal as an early Israelite altar.
He headed the excavations at El-ahwat, which he has identified as the Biblical Harosheth Haggoyim, a fortress described in the Book of Judges as the fortress or cavalry base of Sisera, commander of the army of King Jabin.
(Judges 4)
In 2009, Zertal headed a team that discovered an Ancient underground quarry in the Jordan Valley.