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Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08540 mmeerson@princeton.edu
Bar-Ilan University
(Ramat-Gan, Israel) June 2006
Ph.D.
in Classical Studies with a focus on papyrology.
Dissertation:
“Gifts After Death in Greco-Roman Egypt.”
(papyrological corpus)
Dissertation director: Prof. Ranon Katzoff.
Zurich University
(Zurich, Switzerland) 2000-2001
Exchange Student (enrolled as Ph.D Sudent at the Institute of Classical Philology)
Hebrew University
(Jerusalem, Israel) 1999
MA in Classical Archaeology with a focus of Greek epigraphy, and literary papyri, and
Roman art in Asia Minor, Near East, and North Africa.
Thesis:
“Pharmaka in Greek Magical Papyri.”
Thesis Directors: Prof. Shaul Shaked and Dr. Lea Di Segni
Haifa University
(Haifa, Israel) 1995
BA
in Archaeology with a focus on Greco-Roman period, with a minor in General
History with a focus on antique and medieval periods.
Senior thesis: “Gymnasia and Bath-Gymnasia in Hellenistic Asia Minor.”
Thesis Director: Prof. Arthur Segal
Princeton University
2004-2007
Research Scholar at the Department of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies
Functions as one of the editors of Sefer Hasidim Project

Directed by Prof. Peter Schaefer
Princeton University
2004-2005
Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Religion
Works on Cairo Geniza Magical texts
Directed by Prof. Peter Schafer
Haifa University
1993-1995
Adjunct Instructor of Archaeology of Greek and Roman Period in Israel
Department of Archaeology
Excavations directed:
Beit Horon (Judaea)
– Roman road and Byzantine village 1999
Archaeologist at Israel Antiquities Authority
Participation in excavations:
Mount Gerizim (Samaria)
1998
Israel Antiquities Authority
Directed by Dr. Izhak Magen
Haifa (Seleucid fortress)
Directed by Prof. Arthur Segal 1995
El Ahuat (Iron Age [10 th c. BCE] settlement)
1994
Directed by Prof. Adam Zertal 1993
Observation and Control (from Israel Antiquities Authority):
Ramle (Arabic settlement)
1995
Israel Antiquities Authority
Research scholar 1997-1999
Mount Gerizim
(Samaria)
Hellenistic and Byzantine inscriptions (prepared for publications, forthcoming)
North Hevron (Israel)
Inscriptions from churches and monasteries (5-7 cc. CE)
Anab el-Kabir (Israel)
Church, mosaic inscriptions (6 th
c. CE); published.
Shiloh (Samaria)
Church, inscriptions from reliquarium (6 th
c. CE)
Monastery of Martirius (Judaea)
(6 th c. CE)

State University of Milan (Italy)
Visiting schoral 2004
Invited by prof. Claudio Gallazzi to practice reading of ostraca and papyri; the latter included in the dissertation.
Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)
1999
Archaeological exhibition “Hasmonean Palaces in Jericho”
Exhibition directed by Dr. Eilat Mazar
State University of Milan (Italy)
2004
Recent Archaeological Research in Israel - 3 hours.
Gifts After Death in Greco-Roman Egypt – 2 hours.
Hellenistic Inscription of Mount Gerizim – 1 hour .
Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
2001
Excavations and Inscriptions of Mount Gerizim – 1 hour
Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)
1998
Led an archaeological summer camp for school-age children
Haifa University (Israel)
1993-1995
Adjunct Instructor of Archaeology of Greek and Roman Period in Israel
Department of Archaeology
Princeton University
2005
Co-organizer of the international congress Jewish Magic in Context
Led and organized by Profs. P.Schafer and M.Himmelfarb
Bar-Ilan University
(Ramat-Gan) 2000-2004
Excellence Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (four-year university graduate fellowship and full scholarship support)
Bar-Ilan University
2004
Travel Grant to the International Congress of Papyrologists in Helsinki, Finland.
State University of Milan
(Italy) 2003

Travel and accommodation grant (for a visit to practice papyrological skills and lecturing)
Zurich University
(Switzerland) –
Hebrew University
(Jerusalem)
Exchange Stipend 2001-2001
Hebrew University
(Jerusalem) 1998
Scholarship Support
Haifa University
(Israel) 1994
Scholarship support
Haifa University
(Israel) 1993
Full-year of archaeological magazine Cathedra granted for excellence in the study.
“Gifts after death in Greco-Roman Egypt.”
Proceedings of 24 th
Internationsal Congress of Papyrologists , 2004. Helsinki, forthcoming.
“Book is a territory: Goralot, a Hebrew book of fortune in context.”
QJS 2006.
“Metal Finds from East Itamar (Samaria).”
Qadmoniot . Forthcoming.
2006. P.Schaefer ed.
“Wege mystischer Gotterfahrung: Judentum, Christentum, and
Islam.”
Munich (INDEX prepared by M.Meerson)
2003. I.Magen,
“A Church of Anab el-Kebir,”
Qadmoniot 125: 47-54. (transcription and translation of inscriptions by M.Meerson and L. Di Segni)
Schaefer, P. and Sh. Shaked,
“Magische Texte aus der Kairoeer Geniza.”
Vol. IV.
Tuebingen. Forthcoming in 2007.
Schaefer, P. ed.
“Sefer Hasidim (Book of Pious).”
In preparation.
Magen, I. ed.
“Greek Inscriptions of Har Gerizim.”
Forthcoming.
Princeton, NJ
2005
International congress on Jewish magic: Jewish Magic in Context
Presentation: Book is a territory: Goralot, a Hebrew book of fortune in context
Helsinki, Finland
2004
24 th International Congress of Papyrologists
Presentation: Gifts after Death in Greco-Roman Egypt

Zurich University (Switzerland)
2000-2001
Introduction to Papyrology
Led by Prof. Peter Parsons
Greek Dialectic Inscriptions
Led by Prof. Dunkel
Gorgias (Plato)
Led by Prof. Christoph Riedweg
Russian – native speaker; Hebrew – near-native fluency in reading, writing, and conversation; German, Italian – reading, some writing and conversation; French,
Greek, Latin, Aramaic –reading.