Dr. Roi Sabar completed his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a specialist in classical archaeology of the southern Levant, with a particular focus on northern Israel. His research explores socio-political processes and interactions as they are recorded in material culture and reflected in historical narratives. His dissertation, “The Galilee during the Hellenistic Period (4–1 c. BCE): Geopolitical Changes in Light of the Fortified Sites and Settlement History”, examined the dynamics of a complex geopolitical system from a regional archaeological perspective. Sabar was a postdoctoral fellow at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University.
His current research project examines the formation of the Hasmonean Kingdom in the late second and early first century BCE. It focuses on the archaeological data as a primary data source for political and cultural constructions in the late Hellenistic Southern Levant.