Prof. Oren Tal

Prof. Oren Tal (born 1968, Tel Aviv) received his Ph.D. in archaeology from Tel Aviv University in 2002. His postdoctoral research stay was carried out in Berlin (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) and London (Institute of Classical Studies) in 2003 and 2004. He taught at the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Since 2007 he has worked for Tel Aviv University, where he teaches classical Near Eastern archaeology in the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. Tal has served as the Chair of the Department (in 2010–2013). He is the current Director of the Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project (since 2007) and co-director of the Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project (since 2019). His research interests concern the material culture of the classical- and medieval-period Near East and its social, political and economic implications, that is from the mid-first millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE. Tal is also engaged in the study of the early indigenous southern Levantine coinages and the development of monetary economy in the Levant, as well as in ancient technologies. He is the author of Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine, Jerusalem: Bialik Institute (in Hebrew, 2006; rev. 2nd e-book ed. 2009), and the co-author of Coinage of Philistia, Milan: Ennerre (2006), Samaritan Cemeteries and Tombs in the Central Coastal Plain, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag (2015) and The Nablus 1968 Hoard, New York: American Numismatic Society (2019). He has also authored or co-authored the final excavation reports of Apollonia-Arsuf I (1999), ᶜEn Boqeq II (2000), Ramla (South) (2008), Tell Qudadi (2015), Beth Yeraḥ III (2017) and Apollonia-Arsuf II (2020). In addition, Tal has published numerous scientific articles especially on the archaeology of Palestine (Ancient Israel/southern Levant) and the ancient Near East in the late Iron Age, classical and early medieval periods.

Higher Education

• B.A. Tel Aviv University, 1993
• M.A. Tel Aviv University, 1996
• Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, 2002; Ph.D. Dissertation: Aspects of the Study of the Material Culture of Hellenistic Ptolemaic and Seleucid Palestine

• Post-Doctoral Research Visits: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Zentrale, Berlin; Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Freie Universität, Berlin; Institute of Classical Studies (ICS), School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2002–2004

Academic Position

• Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, 2007–2010
• Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2010–2013
• Full Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2013

Archaeological Field Work

• Educational excavation at Tel Hadar and Mitcham Leviʾa (Golan Heights), and Yavneh-Yam, 1991–1992
• Area Supervisor, Yavneh-Yam and Apollonia-Arsuf excavations, 1992–1996
• Archaeological Survey of Roman Roads in Palestine, under B. Isaac and I. Roll, 1992–1996
• Director of rescue excavations at Herzliya Beth, 1995
• Director of rescue excavations at Tel Ḥamid (Lower Terrace), 1995–1996
• Director of the Parod and Beersheba (Galilee) survey and excavation, 1997
• Co-Director of rescue excavations at Rishon LeZion (West), 1999
• Director of rescue excavations at Ramla (South), 2005–2007
• Director of the Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project, 2007–
• Co-Director of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, 2019–

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Pinchas and Shendel Wald Award (doctoral fellowship), Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History (Jerusalem), 1998
• Rotenstreich Fellowship (doctoral fellowship) Israeli Council for Higher Education, 1998–2000
• Minerva (postdoctoral) Fellowship Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Minerva Stiftung, 2002–2004
• Rothschild (postdoctoral) Fellowship Yad HaNadiv, 2003–2004

Academic Grants, Honors and Prizes (internal grants are excluded)

• The Shelby White – Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications – Tell Qudadi (with A. Fantalkin), 2004–2006
• The Mediterranean Archaeological Trust – Tell Qudadi (with A. Fantalkin), 2004–2006
• 2007 Kindler Award Israel Numismatic Society – The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC: A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine, Collezioni Numismatiche 6, Milan: Ennerre (with H. Gitler, Israel Museum, Jerusalem), 2007
• Sub-awards in the framework of academic collaboration with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Archaeo-metallurgical Analysis of Ancient Silver Coins, 2007–2009, 2011
• 2009 Ish Shalom Award Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi – The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal, Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2009
• German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) – Young Scientists’ Program (No. 2190) – Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project, 2009
• Sub-award in the framework of academic collaboration with Brown University in National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant (#0808718) – IIICXTCore Large: Computer Vision Research: Promoting Paradigm Shifts in Archaeology, 2009–2010
• Sub-awards in the framework of academic collaboration with the Israel Nature and Parks Authority – Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2022, 2023
• Eretz Israel Museum temporary exhibition: The Last Supper at Apollonia: The Final Days of the Crusader Castle in Herzliya, May – September 2011
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) – Personal Research Grant (No. 118/12) – Archaeology and History of the Samaritan Settlement outside Samaria (ca. 150–800 CE), 2012–2014
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Research Grants (GZ: SCHO 520/141; GZ: SCHO 520/142) – Die kreuzfahrerzeitliche Stadt Apollonia/Arsur in Israel: Struktur – Kulturadaption – Stadt-Umland-Beziehungen (with B. Scholkmann, University of Tübingen), 2012–2016
• Sub-awards in the framework of academic collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority – Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project, 2012–2016, 2018
• The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Collaborative Research Group: Contextualizing the Cult of the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Monotheism and Polytheism between Continuity and Change (co-initiator/organizer Z. Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), September 2013 – June 2014
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) – Personal Research Grant (No. 2050/17) – Contextualizing the Architectural Language of the Military Orders: Reconstructing the Frankish Castle of Arsur in Light of its Recently Discovered Chapel, 2017–2020
• German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) – Regular Program (No. I-1447-108.4/2018) – Tell Iztabba [Nysa-Scythopolis]: High-resolution Hellenistic Settlement Archaeology and the Reassessment of the Formation of the Decapolis (with A. Lichtenberger, University of Münster), 2019–2021
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) – Personal Research Grant (No. 2883/20) – Corpus of Samarian Coinage (ca. Fourth Century BCE), 2020–2023
• Sub-award in the framework of academic collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority – Rishon LeZion Excavations (with A. Fantalkin and L. Singer-Avitz), 2021–2024
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Research Grant (Projektnummer 495961685) – Tell Iztabba (Nysa-Skythopolis) – eine seleukidische Gründung im Nahen Osten (with A. Lichtenberger, University of Münster), 2022–2025
• Sub-award in the framework of academic collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority – Meẓad Yeroḥam Excavations (with I. Taxel and N. Benenstein), 2022–2025
• Corresponding Member, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), 2023
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) – Personal Research Grant (No. 2537/23) – Levantine Coinages Online (LCO): The Coins of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Levant, 2023–2027

Ongoing Projects

• Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project
• German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project
• Hellenization and the East
• Indigenous Coinages of the Southern Levant

Near Eastern, Classical and Medieval Archaeology

Monographs

1. Tal, O. 2020. Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations, Volume II: Excavations Outside the Medieval Town Walls. Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 38. University Park: Eisenbrauns & Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University [xvi + 416 pages]
2. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2019. The Nablus 1968 Hoard: A Study of Monetary Circulation in the Late Fourth and Early Third Centuries BCE Southern Levant. Numismatic Notes and Monographs 171. New York: American Numismatic Society. [iv + 256 pages]
3. Greenberg, R., Tal, O. and Daᶜadli, T. 2017. Bet Yeraḥ, Vol. III: Hellenistic Philoteria and Islamic al-Ṣinnabra. IAA Reports 61. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority. [vi + 226 pages]
4. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2015. Tell Qudadi: An Iron Age IIB Fortress on the Central Mediterranean Coast of Israel (with References to Earlier and Later Periods). Colloquia Antiqua 15. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. [xx + 242 pages]
5. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2015. Samaritan Cemeteries and Tombs in the Central Coastal Plain: Archaeology and History of the Samaritan Settlement outside Samaria (ca. 300–700 CE). Ägypten und Altes Testament 82. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag. [xviii + 292 pages]
6. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2008. Ramla (South): An Early Islamic Industrial Site and Remains of Previous Periods. Salvage Excavation Reports 5. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. [264 pages]
7. Tal, O. 2006. The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute (Hebrew). [424 pages] / Tal, O. 2009. The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal (Revised 2nd edition/electronic edition). Jerusalem: Bialik Institute (Hebrew). [424 pages]
8. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2006. The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC: A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine. Collezioni Numismatiche 6. Milan: Ennerre. [412 pages]
9. Fischer, M., Gichon, M. and Tal, O. 2000. ‘En Boqeq: Excavations in an Oasis on the Dead Sea. Volume II: The Officina An Early Roman Building on the Dead Sea Shore. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern. [xxx + 182 pages + 24 plates]
10. Roll, I. and Tal, O. 1999. Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations. Volume I: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods (with Appendices on the Chalcolithic and Iron Age II Remains). Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 16. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology. [xvi + 300 pages]

Textbook

1. Tal, O. 2019. Course 10140; Unit 9. The Persian Period. In: Faust, A. and Katz, H. eds., Archaeology of the Land of Israel: From the Neolithic to Alexander the Great, vol. II. Raanana: The Open University. Pp. 323–411 (Hebrew).

Monographs Edited

1. Haddad, E., Nadav-Ziv, L., Seligman, J., Varga, D., Betzer, P., Shadman, A., Tal, O. and Tepper, Y., eds. 2022. Yavne and Its Secrets: Collected Papers. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Israel Land Authority (Hebrew and English). [354 pages]
2. Lichtenberger, A., Tal, O. and Weiss, Z., eds. 2019. Judaea/Palaestina and Arabia: Cities and Hinterlands in Roman and Byzantine Times. Volume 44, Panel 8.6; Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology Cologne/Bonn, 22 – 26 May 2018. Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World, edited by M. Bentz and M. Heinzelmann. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. [x + 154 pages]
3. Tal, O. and Weiss, Z., eds. 2017. Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Manifestations in Text and Material Culture. Contextualizing the Sacred 6. Turnhout: Brepols. [xxiv + 290 pages]
4. Tal, O., ed. 2011. The Last Supper at Apollonia: The Final Days of the Crusader Castle in Herzliya. Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum (Bilingual Hebrew/English). [224 pages]
5. Roll, I., Tal, O. and Winter, M., eds. 2007. The Encounter of Crusaders and Muslims in Palestine as Reflected in Arsuf, Sayyiduna ᶜAli and Other Coastal Sites. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad (Hebrew). [226 + vi pages]

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles in Scholarly Journals and Collections (pubs. in Heb. are excluded; full list is available on My CRIS Profile)

1. Lorenzon, M., Cutillas Victoria, B., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2024. Of Mudbrick and Stone: A Geoarchaeological View on Innovations in Building Practices at Hellenistic Tell Iẓṭabba. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports 54: 104389.
2. Johananoff, M., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2024. The Coins from the 2023 Excavation Season of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project. Online Zeitschrift zur Antiken Numismatik 6: 19–39.
3. Edrey, M., Ebeling, P., Harpak, T., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2023. Field Report on the 2023 German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabbā Excavation Project (Beth She’an), Israel. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 139/2: 218–232.
4. Fischer, M., Fantalkin, A., Taxel, I., Bouzaglou, L. and Tal, O. 2023. Clay Boat Models from Yavneh-Yam: Toward an Understanding of Their Chronology, Function, and Use. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 11/2–3: 337–353.
5. Ashkenazi, D., Cohen, M., Jeselsohn, D., Gitler, H., Johananoff, M. and Tal, O. 2023. A Study of a Late Fifth Century BCE Jewelry, Hacksilber and Coin Hoard from the Samaria Region. Israel Numismatic Research 18: 7–28.
6. Tal, O. 2023. Sacred Architecture in Persian- and Hellenistic-Period Palestine. In: Kamlah, J. and Witte, M., eds. Temples, Synagogues, Churches, and Mosques: Sacred Architecture in Ancient Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 49. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 375–418.
7. Orendi, A., Yehuda, E., Zeischka-Kenzler, A. and Tal, O. 2023. Flora in the Latin East: Archaeobotanical Remains from Crusader Arsur. Tel Aviv 50/2: 263–288.
8. Cohen, M., Ashkenazi, D., Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2023. Archaeometallurgical Analysis of the Provincial Silver Coinage of Judah: More on the Chaîne Opératoire of the Minting Process. Materials 16/6: 2200.
9. Lewis, R. Y., Finkelstein, N., Avissar Lewis, R. S., Eshel, E., Baruch, Y., Maor, Y., Tsach, T. and Tal, O. 2023. An Aramaic-Inscribed Object from Tulûl Mas‘ud, Elyakhin. ‘Atiqot 110: 45–64.
10. Shotten-Hallel, V.R., Yohanan, H., Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2023. Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium: Jean II of Ibelin, Arsur Castle and the Hospitallers. In: Khamisy, R.G., Lewis, R. and Shotten-Hallel, V.R., eds. Exploring Outremer Volume II: Studies in Crusader Archaeology in Honour of Adrian J. Boas. Crusades – Subsidia. London: Routledge. Pp. 74–106.
11. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2022. Indigenous Coinages in Palestine: Towards an Understanding of the Persian-Hellenistic Transitional Monetary Phase. Phoenix 76: 250–260.
12. Klein, S., Jansen, M., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2022. Archaeometallurgical Analysis of Lead Weights and Sling Bullets from Seleucid Tell Iẓṭabba: More on Lead Origin in Seleucid Palestine. Tel Aviv 49/2: 267–292.
13. Johananoff, M., Ashkenazi, D., Cohen, M., Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2022. Typological and Metallurgical Analysis of a Repeated Overstrike on a ‘Lyre Player’ Coin Type Attributed to Samaria. Israel Numismatic Research 17: 3–26.
14. Ashkenazi, D., Lewis, R. Y., Eshel, E. and Tal, O. 2022. Metallurgical Characterization of a Copper-Alloy Aramaic-Inscribed Object from Tulûl Mas‘ud (Elyakhin). Humans 2: 177–189.
15. Lichtenberger, A., Mienis, H., Orendi, O., Pines, M., Rittner, O. and Tal, O. 2022. For Everything There Is a Season: More Than a Year of Destruction at Seleucid Tell Iẓṭabba (Israel). Antiquity 96/389: 1316–1323.
16. Pines, M., Mienis, H., Rittner, O., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2022. Food in a Colonial Setting: The Faunal Assemblage of a Short-Lived Seleucid-Founded Site in the Near East. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports 45: Article No. 103558.
17. Shotten-Hallel, V., Ashkenazi, D. and Tal, O. 2022 . Archaeometallurgical Analysis of Thirteenth-Century Bronze and Iron Construction Implements from the Walls of the Frankish Castle at Arsuf/Arsur. Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis 11: 255–280.
18. Edrey, M., Ebeling, P., Harpak, T., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2022. Back to Bet She’an: Results of the 2019–2020 Fieldwork of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project. In: Atrash, W., Overman, A. and Gendelman, P., eds. Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant: Studies in Honour of Gaby Mazor. Oxford: Archaeopress. Pp. 2–15.
19. Shamir, O., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2022. The Relationship between Textile Remains in a Hoard of Alexander II Zabinas Coins and Loom Weights Discovered at Hellenistic Tell Iẓṭabba (Beth She’an, Nysa-Scythopolis), Israel. In: Ulanowska, A., Grömer, K., Vanden Berghe, I. and Öhrman, M., eds. Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for Our Understanding of Textiles. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Berlin: Springer. Pp. 221–240.
20. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2022. Arsuf (Apollonia, Palestine) Post-Occupational History: The Biography of a Desolated Site. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 26: 740–759.
21. Heidemann, S., Nicolle, D. C. and Tal, O. 2021. An Inscribed Ballista Stone from Apollonia-Arsūf, Israel, and Stone-throwing Siege Machines in the Medieval Near East. Journal of Islamic Archaeology 8/2: 239–254.
22. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2021. The Medium and Small Bronze Series of Bar Kokhba Reconsidered: More on a Mint at Herodium. Israel Numismatic Research 16: 143–161.
23. Ashkenazi, D., Shnabel, R. Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2021. Chemical Composition and Microstructure Analysis of Plaster and Pigments Retrieved from a Decorated House Wall at Seleucid Tell Iẓṭabba (Nysa-Scythopolis, Beth She’an, Israel). Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 21/3: 89–122.
24. Zeischka-Kenzler, A., Yohanan, H., Kenzler, H., Harpak, T., Yehuda, E., Scholkmann, B. and Tal, O. 2021. The Crusader Town of Arsur by the Sea: A German-Israeli Collaborative Project (2012–2016). In: Kamlah, J. and Lichtenberger, A., eds. The Mediterranean Sea and the Southern Levant: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 48. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 337–360.
25. Jackson-Tal, R. E., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2021. Hellenistic Vitreous Finds from Seleucid Tell Iẓṭabba. Levant 52/3: 382–392.
26. Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2021. The Coins from the 2019 and 2020 Excavation Seasons of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project. OZeAN 3: 37–53.
27. Orendi, A., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2021. Food in a Colonial Setting: The Flora Assemblage of a Short-Lived Seleucid-Founded Site in the Near East. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30: 641–655.
28. Ebeling, P., Edrey, M., Harpak, T., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2021. Field Report on the 2020 German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabbā Excavation Project (Beth She’an), Israel. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 137/1: 60–74.
29. Shotten-Hallel, V., Yohanan, H. and Tal, O. 2021. The Castle Chapel of Arsur – New Evidence for Its Location and Architecture. In: Shotten-Hallel, V. and Weetch, R., eds. Crusading and Archaeology. Crusades – Subsidia 14. London: Routledge. Pp. 369–400.
30. Johananoff, M. and Tal, O. 2021. The Coinages of Phoenicia in the Persian Period in Light of Contemporaneous Neighboring Minting Practices. In: Garbati, G. and Pedrazzi, T., eds. Transformations and Crisis in the Mediterranean: “Identity” and Interculturality in the Levant and Phoenician West during the 5th–2nd Centuries BCE. Supplementi alla Rivista di Studi Fenici. Rome: CNR Edizioni. Pp. 105–121.
31. Atrash, W., Lichtenberger, A., Mazor, G. and Tal, O. 2020–2021. Roman Ionic Capitals and Columns from the >Podium Building< at Tell Iẓṭabba – Preliminary Notes on the Use of Spolia at Late Antiquity Beth She’an. BOREAS: Münstersche Beiträge zur Archäologie 43–44: 91–104.
32. Kool, R. and Tal, O. 2020. Another Token Mold and Lead Token from Crusader Arsur (Apollonia). Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau 98: 215–222.
33. Piasetzky-David, M., Fischer, M., Taxel, I. Jackson-Tal, R. E. and Tal, O. 2020. Roman and Byzantine Burials at Yavneh-Yam: New Insights into the Site’s Settlement History. Liber Annuus 70: 469–577.
34. Fischer, M., Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2020. The Coins of Khirbet el-‘Aqd: A Hellenistic-Roman Stronghold in Western Judea. Israel Numismatic Research 15: 13–43.
35. Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2020. A Hoard of Alexander II Zabinas Coins from Tell Iẓṭabba (Beth She’an), Israel. Israel Numismatic Research 15: 45–59.
36. Ebeling, P., Edrey, M., Harpak, T., Lichtenberger, A. and Tal, O. 2020. Field Report on the 2019 German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabbā Excavation Project (Beth She’an), Israel. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 136/2: 176–190.
37. Lichtenberger, A., Meyer, C. and Tal, O. 2020. Magnetic Prospecting at Nysa-Scythopolis (Tell Iẓṭabba): Deciphering Urban Planning at a Newly Founded Hellenistic Town of the Decapolis. Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 38: 45–70.
38. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2020. More on the Samaria Hoard (CH 9.413 Samaria, before 1990): Coins, Jewelry and the Samarian Sheqel Weight Standard. Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 166: 176–197.
39. Tal, O. 2020. A Samaritan Synagogue of the Byzantine Period at Apollonia-Arsuf/Sozousa? Religions 11(3),127.
40. Tal, O. and Piasetzky-David, M. 2020. Inscribed Spindle Whorls from a Byzantine Burial Cave at Yavne-Yam, Israel. Israel Exploration Journal 70: 106–113.
41. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2020. A View from the Near East: The Transition from Metal to Coin Economy in the Southern Levant. In: van Alfen, P. and Wartenberg, U., eds. White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage. New York: American Numismatic Society. Pp. 35–48.
42. Gitler, H., Goren, Y., Konuk, K., Tal, O. van Alfen, P. G. and Weisburd, D. 2020. XRF Analyses of Several Groups of Electrum Coins. In: van Alfen, P. G. and Wartenberg, U., eds. White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage. New York: American Numismatic Society. Pp. 379–422.
43. Pines, M., Dor, A., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Paz, S., Tal, O. and Greenberg, R. 2020. Heads or Snails? A Rustic Feast at Hellenistic Philoteria (Tel Bet Yeraḥ, Israel), c. 150 BCE. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 8/1: 79–93.
44. Tal, O. 2019. Arsinoë II Philadelphia at Philoteria/Bet Yeraḥ (Israel). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 209: 181–184.
45. Tal, O. 2019. Apollonia/Sozousa: Its Immediate Hinterland in Byzantine Times. In: Lichtenberger, A., Tal, O. and Weiss, Z., eds. Judaea/Palaestina and Arabia: Cities and Hinterlands in Roman and Byzantine Times. Volume 44, Panel 8.6; Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology Cologne/Bonn, 22 – 26 May 2018. Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World, edited by M. Bentz and M. Heinzelmann. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. Pp. 67–80.
46. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2019. Test Cuts on Philistian Rb‘ Sheqels / Quarters: A Case Study. Israel Numismatic Research 14: 3–24.
47. Ashkenazi, J., Aviam, M., Greenberg, R. and Tal, O. 2019. A Byzantine Tombstone from Tel Bet Yeraḥ/Khirbat al-Karak (Israel). Scripta Classica Israelica 38: 129–137.
48. Tal, O. 2019. People, Material Culture and Ethno-Religious Regions in Achaemenid Palestine. In: Yasur-Landau, A., Cline, C. H., and Rowan, Y. M., eds. Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 393–409.
49. Heidemann, S., Zeischka-Kenzler, A. and Tal, O. 2018. A Magical Rock Crystal Gem from Apollonia-Arsūf, Israel; Ashkenazi, D., Dvir, O. and Tal, O. Appendix: Mineralogical Characterization of the Magical Rock Crystal Gem from Apollonia-Arsūf. Journal of Islamic Archaeology 5/2: 225–239.
50. Tal, O. and Roll, I. 2018. The Roman Villa at Apollonia (Israel). In: Métraux, G. P. R. and Marzano, A., eds. The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 308–316.
51. Rudin, T., Tal, O., Taxel I. and Feldstein, A. 2018. Two Burial Caves at Kefar Shemaryahu: More on Samaritan and Christian Interactions in the Byzantine-Period Central Coastal Plain. Liber Annuus 68: 269–302.
52. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2018. Phoenician Coinages in the Nablus 1968 Hoard of the Fourth Century BC. Transeuphratène 50: 49–85.
53. Tal, O., Taxel, I. and Zeischka-Kenzler, A. 2018. A Basmala-Inscribed Jug from Arsur's Mamluk Destruction of AD 1265: The Religious Manifestation of a Christian-Used Table Vessel? Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77/1: 91–98.
54. Ashkenazi, D., Gitler, H., Stern, A. and Tal, O. 2018. Archaeometallurgical Characterization and Manufacturing Technologies of Fourth Century BCE Silver Jewelry: The Samaria and Nablus Hoards as Test Case. Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis 7/4: 387–413.
55. Vunsh, R., Tal, O. Yechieli, Y. Dean, S., Levanon, E. and Sivan, D. 2018. Evaluating Ancient Coastal Wells as Sea-Level Indicators from the Coast of Israel. Geoarchaeology 33/4: 403–416.
56. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2017. Circulation of Southern Palestinian Athenian-Styled Fractions after the Conquest of Alexander the Great. Israel Numismatic Research 12: 35–46.
57. Tal, O. and Bijovsky, G. 2017. A Hoard of Fourth-Fifth Century CE Copper Coins from Sozousa. Israel Numismatic Research 12: 147–158.
58. Pines, M., Sapir-Hen, L. and Tal, O. 2017. Consumption and Disposal Practices in the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity: Animal Bones from ’Aπολλωνία/Σώζουσα’s Hinterland as a Case Study. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 133/2: 186–204.
59. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2017. More Than Trash – Cultic Use of Pottery Lamps Found in Late Antique Dumps: Apollonia (Sozousa) as a Test Case. In: Tal, O. and Weiss, Z., eds. Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Manifestations in Text and Material Culture. Contextualizing the Sacred 6. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. 181–193.
60. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2017. A Preliminary Report on the Nablus 1968 Hoard of the Fourth Century BC. In: Caltabiano, M. C., et al., eds. Proceedings of the XV International Numismatic Congress - Taormina 2015. Messina: Arbor Sapientiae Editore - Rome. Pp. 604–608.
61. Pines, M., Sapir-Hen, L. and Tal, O. 2017. Crusader Diet in Times of War and Peace: Arsur (Israel) as a Case Study. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36/3: 307–328.
62. Ashkenazi, D., Gitler, H., Stern, A. and Tal, O. 2017. Metallurgical Investigation on Fourth Century BCE Silver Jewellery of Two Hoards from Samaria. Scientific Reports 7: Article No. 40659.
63. Mirkin, D., Cvikel, D. and Tal, O. 2016. Arsur Castle Maritime Installation (1241–1265 CE). Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148/4: 294–312.
64. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2016. Reclassifying Persian-Period Philistian Coins: Some New Identifications. Israel Numismatic Research 11: 11–22.
65. Tal, O. 2016. [Several Chapters]. In: Lipschits, O., Gadot, Y. and Freud, L., eds. Ramat Raḥel III: Final Publication of Aharoni's Excavations at Ramat Raḥel (1954, 1959–1962). Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 35. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
66. Tal, O. 2016. Idumea (Edom) in the Fourth Century BCE: Historical and Archaeological Introduction. In: Yardeni, A. The Jeselsohn Collection of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi. Pp. IX–XIX.
67. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2016. When the River Meets the Sea: A Neo-Assyrian Logistical Network in Operation. Skyllis 15/1: 21–27.
68. Amitai-Preiss, N. and Tal, O. 2015. A Lead Bulla from Apollonia-Arsūf with the Place Name Arsūf; Ashkenazi, D. and Tal, O. Appendix: Archaeometallurgical Characteristics of the Bulla. Israel Numismatic Research 10: 191–206.
69. Kool, R. and Tal, O. 2015. 'Underground' Money in an Outremer Estate: Token Molds and Lead Tokens from Crusader Arsur. Israel Numismatic Research 10: 215–228.
70. Freestone, I. C., Jackson-Tal, R. E., Taxel, I. and Tal, O. 2015. Glass Production at an Early Islamic Workshop in Tel Aviv. Journal of Archaeological Science 62: 45–54.
71. Tal, O. 2015. A Bilingual Greek-Samaritan Inscription from Apollonia-Arsuf/Sozousa: Yet More Evidence of the Use of εἷς θεὸς μόνος Formula Inscriptions among the Samaritans. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 194: 169–175.
72. Ashkenazi, D., Taxel, I. and Tal, O. 2015. Archeometallurgical Characterization of Late Roman- and Byzantine-Period Samaritan Magical Objects and Jewelry Made of Copper Alloys. Materials Characterization 102: 195–208.
73. Tal, O. 2015. [Several Chapters]. In: Beit-Arieh, I. and Freud, L. Tel Malḥata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev. Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 32. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University / Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
74. Tal, O. and Teixeira Bastos, M. 2015. More on the Intentionally Broken Discus Lamps from Roman Palestine: Mutilation and Its Symbolic Meaning. In: Blömer, M., Lichtenberger, A. and Raja, R., eds. Religious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed: Continuity and Change. Contextualizing the Sacred 4. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. 345–368.
75. Tal, O. 2015. A Late Fourth/Early Third Century BCE Farmstead at Ḥolot Rishon Le-Zion (South), Israel: Evidence for an Unrecorded Military Clash in the Southern Levant? Archäologischer Anzeiger 2014/2: 37–57.
76. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2014. More Than Meets the Eye: Athenian Owls and the Chronology of Southern Palestinian Coinages of the Persian Period. Israel Numismatic Research 9: 15–27.
77. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2014. Samaritan Burial Customs Outside Samaria: Evidence from Late Roman and Byzantine Cemeteries in the Southern Sharon Plain. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 130/2: 155–180.
78. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2014. A Hoard of Tyrian and Athenian Coins from Dalton, Israel. In: Lemaire, A., ed. Phéniciens d’Orient et d’Occident: Mélanges Josette Elayi. Cahiers de l’Institut du Proche-Orient ancien du Collège de France. Paris: Maisonneuve. Pp. 243–249.
79. Sapir-Hen, L., Pines, M. and Tal, O. 2014. Animal Economy and Social Diversity in Byzantine Apollonia/Sozousa. Levant 46/3: 371–381.
80. Tal, O., Taxel, I. and Jackson-Tal, R. E. 2013. Khirbet al-Ḥadra: More On Refuse Disposal Practices in Early Islamic Palestine and Their Socio-Economic Implications. Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 31: 117–148.
81. Tal, O., Kool, R. and Baidoun, I. 2013. A Hoard Twice Buried? Fatimid Gold from Thirteenth Century Crusader Arsur (Apollonia-Arsuf). Numismatic Chronicle 173: 261–292.
82. Ayalon, E., Tal, O. and Yehuda, L. 2013. A Twelfth-Century Oil Press Complex at the Crusader Town of Arsur (Apollonia-Arsuf) and the Olive Oil Industry in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 1/4: 259–291.
83. Jackson-Tal, R. E. and Tal, O. 2013. Crusader Glass in Context: The Destruction of Arsur (Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel), April 1265. Journal of Glass Studies 55: 85–100.
84. Ashkenazi, D., Fischer, M., Stern, A. and Tal, O. 2013. Technology of an Ancient Ship Brazier: A Unique Example from the Southern Levant. Skyllis 12/1: 85–93.
85. Ashkenazi, D., Golan, O. and Tal, O. 2013. An Archaeometallurgical Study of 13th-Century Arrowheads and Bolts from the Crusader Castle of Arsuf/Arsur. Archaeometry 55/2: 235–257.
86. Tal, O. 2012. Greek Coinages of Palestine. In: Metcalf, W. E., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 252–274.
87. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2012. Judah and Its Neighbors in the Fourth Century BCE: A Time of Major Transformations. In: Unsok Ro, J., ed. From Judah to Judaea: Socio-Economic Structures and Processes in the Persian Period. Hebrew Bible Monographs 43. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. Pp. 133–196.
88. Tal, O. 2012. A Portable Sundial from Apollonia-Arsuf Revisited. Semitica et Classica [formerly Semitica] 5: 245–248.
89. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2012. Some Notes on the Relative Chronology of the Fifth-and Fourth-Century BCE Coinage of Philistia. Israel Numismatic Research 7: 7–15.
90. Tal, O. and Teixeira Bastos, M. 2012. Intentionally Broken Discus Lamps from Roman Apollonia: A New Interpretation. Tel Aviv 39/1: 105–115.
91. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2012. The Canonization of the Pentateuch: When and Why? Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 124/1 (Part I): 1–18; 124/2 (Part II): 201–212.
92. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2012. Socio-Political and Economic Aspects of Refuse Disposal in Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Palestine. In: Matthews, R., Curtis, J., et al. eds. Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12–16, April 2010. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. Pp. 497–518.
93. Ashkenazi, D., Iddan, N. and Tal, O. 2012. Archaeometallurgical Characterization of Hellenistic Metal Objects: The Contribution of the Bronze Objects from Rishon Le-Zion (Israel). Archaeometry 54/3: 528–548.
94. Tal, O. 2011. 'Hellenistic Foundations' in Palestine. In: Grabbe, L.L. and Lipschits, O., eds. Judah between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400–200 BCE). Library of Second Temple Studies 75. New York and London: T&T Clark. Pp. 242–254.
95. Tal, O. 2011. Palestine in Transition from Orientalism to Hellenism. In: Bollettino Di Archeologia – On Line: Volume Speciale (Proceedings of the XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeology, ISSN 2039–0076 [Under Theme: G. Meetings of East and West; Session: 8. Hellenization and Romanization of the Land of Israel: New Archaeological Evidence)]. Rome.
96. Ponting, M., Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2011. Who Minted Those Owls? Metallurgical Analyses of Athenian-styled Tetradrachms Found in Israel. Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 157: 117–134.
97. Tal, O. 2011. Negotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Persian-Period Coinages of Palestine as an Allegory. In: Lipschits, O., Knoppers, G. N. and Oeming, M., eds. The Judeans in the Achaemenid Age: Negotiating Identity in an International Context. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. Pp. 445–459.
98. Tal, O. and Roll, I. 2011. Arsur: The Site, Settlement and Crusader Castle, and the Material Manifestation of Their Destruction. In: Tal, O., ed. The Last Supper at Apollonia: The Final Days of the Crusader Castle in Herzliya. Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum. Pp. 8–51 (Bi-lingual Hebrew/English).
99. Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2010. A Reappraisal of the Archaeological Findings at Tel Ḥashash: On the Archaeology of the Yarqon Estuary from Classical Times to Late Antiquity. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 142: 95–126.
100. Tal, O. and Baidoun, I. 2010. A Hoard of Mamluk, Ottoman and Venetian Coins (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) from Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Numismatic Chronicle 170: 484–493.
101. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2010. Reassessing the Date of the Beginning of the Grey Series Transport Amphorae from Lesbos. BABESCH: Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology 85: 1–12.
102. Tal, O. 2009. Hellenism in Transition from Empire to Kingdom: Changes in the Material Culture of Hellenistic Palestine. In: Levine, L. I. and Schwartz, D. R., eds. Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 130. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Pp. 55–73.
103. Tal, O. 2009. On the Identification of the Ships of kzd/ry of the Erased Customs Account from Elephantine. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68/1: 1–8.
104. Galor, K., Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2009. Apollonia-Arsuf between Past and Future. Near Eastern Archaeology 72/1: 4–27.
105. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2009. Rediscovering the Iron Age Fortress at Tell Qudadi in the Context of the Neo-Assyrian Imperialistic Policies. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 141: 188–206.
106. Gitler, H., Ponting, M. and Tal, O. 2009. Athenian Tetradrachms from Tel Mikhal (Israel): A Metallurgical Perspective. American Journal of Numismatics, Second Series 21: 29–49.
107. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2009. Navigating Between the Powers: Joppa and Its Vicinity in the 1st Millennium B.C.E. Ugarit-Forschungen 40: 225–276.
108. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2009. More Evidence on the Collective Mint of Philistia. Israel Numismatic Research 4: 21–37.
109. Tal, O. 2009. A Winepress at Apollonia-Arsuf: More Evidence on the Samaritan Presence in Roman-Byzantine Southern Sharon. Liber Annuus 59: 319–342.
110. Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. The Route Network of Persian Period Palestine. In: Kühne, H., Czichon, R. M. and Janoscha Kreppner, F., eds. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 29 March – 3 April 2004. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. Pp. 219–228.
111. Tal, O. 2008. Cult in Transition from Achaemenid to Greek Rule: The Contribution of Achaemenid-Ptolemaic Temples of Palestine. Transeuphratène 36: 165–183.
112. Gitler, H., Ponting, M. and Tal, O. 2008. Metallurgical Analysis of Southern Palestinian Coins of the Persian Period. Israel Numismatic Research 3: 13–27.
113. Fischer, M., Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. Persian and Hellenistic Remains at Tel Yaᶜoz. Tel Aviv 35/1: 123–163.
114. Freestone, I. C., Jackson-Tal, R. E. and Tal, O. 2008. Raw Glass and the Production of Glass Vessels at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Journal of Glass Studies 50: 67–80.
115. Tal, O., Jackson-Tal, R. E. and Freestone, I. C. 2008. Glass from a Late Byzantine Secondary Workshop at Ramla (South), Israel. Journal of Glass Studies 50: 81–95.
116. Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. A Villa of the Early Roman Period at Apollonia-Arsuf. Israel Exploration Journal 58: 132–149.
117. Tal, O. 2007. Some Observations on the Manufacturing Traditions in the Wooden and Stone Vessel Industry in Hellenistic Palestine. Topoi Supplément 8: 173–187.
118. Tal, O. 2007. Coin Denominations and Weight Standards in Fourth-Century BCE Palestine. Israel Numismatic Research 2: 17–28.
119. Gitler, H., Tal, O. and van Alfen, P. 2007. Silver Dome-shaped Coins from Persian-Period Southern Palestine. Israel Numismatic Research 2: 47–62.
120. Lipschits, O. and Tal, O. 2007. The Settlement Archaeology of the Province of Judah: A Case Study. In: Lipschits, O., Knoppers, G. N. and Albertz, R., eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. Pp. 33–52.
121. Tal, O. [Several Chapters]. 2007. In: Beit-Arieh, I., ed. Ḥorvat ᶜUza and Ḥorvat Radum: Two Fortresses in the Biblical Negev. Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 25. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
122. Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2006. Coins with the Aramaic Legend Šhrw and Other Unrecorded Samarian Issues. Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau 85: 47–68.
123. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2006. Redating Lachish Level I: Identifying Achaemenid Imperial Policy at the Southern Frontier of the Fifth Satrapy. In: Lipschits, O. and Oeming, M., eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. Pp. 167–197.
124. Tal, O. 2005. Persian Period Remains at Rishon Le-Zion. Salvage Excavation Reports 2: 30–37.
125. Tal, O. 2005. Some Remarks on the Coastal Plain of Palestine under Achaemenid Rule – An Archaeological Synopsis. Persika 6: 71–96.
126. Tal, O., Jackson-Tal, R. E. and Freestone, I. C. 2004. New Evidence of the Production of Raw Glass at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Journal of Glass Studies 46: 51–66.
127. Tal, O. 2003. On the Origin and Concept of the Loculi Tombs of Hellenistic Palestine. Ancient West & East 2: 288–307.
128. Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2003. The 'Yannai Line' (BJ I, 99–100; AJ XIII, 390–91): Reality or Fiction? Palestine Exploration Quarterly 135: 108–123.
129. Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2003. Architectural Decoration in Ancient Israel in Hellenistic Times: Some Aspects of Hellenization. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 119: 19–37.
130. Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2003. A Fourth-Century BCE Attic Marble Totenmahlrelief at Apollonia-Arsuf. Israel Exploration Journal 53: 49–60.
131. Barkay, G., Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2002. A Late Iron Age Fortress North of Jerusalem. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 328: 49–71.