Oded Borowski has been teaching at Emory University since 1977. Born in Palestine in 1939, he was a member of Kibbutz Lahav, where he got involved in agriculture. He studied at the Absalom Institute of Homeland Studies, which deals with all aspects of the land including botany, archaeology, history and culture, among other things.
Borowski continued his studies in Detroit where he received a BHL (Bachelors of Hebrew Letters) from the Midrasha, a BA in Anthropology and History from Wayne State University, and a MA/PHD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan. His dissertation, which became his first book, deals with Agriculture in the Iron Age in Israel. Borowski has been active in archeological digs since the early 1970s, and he worked twelve consecutive summers with the Tel Halif excavations.
Upon arrival at Emory, Dr. Borowski joined the Romance Language Department, where he started both the Hebrew and Arabic language programs. By 1988, Emory had created a new department named Near Eastern Studies, which today is Middle Eastern Studies. Currently, Professor Borowski teaches classes on the undergraduate and graduate level. His courses include: Archeology and the Bible, Daily Life in Ancient Israel, Archeology of Jerusalem, Exodus from Egypt and Settlement of Canaan, and Ancient Israel’s Neighbors
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