2023 – 2025 „Living on the edge of the Empire: rural settlements in the Negev Desert in late antiquity as a model for rural societies in the Near East during the Byzantine-Islamic Transition”

• 2007 bis 2013 Studium der Klassischen, Byzantinischen und Provinzialrömischen Archäologie sowie Museumstudien an der Universität Fribourg und der Universität Leiden.
• 08/2013 Master of Arts in Archäologie, Universität Leiden
• 2009 bis 2014 Teilnahme an verschiedenen Feldforschungsprojekten (Grabungen und Surveys) in der Schweiz und in Israel.
• 2013 – 2014 Praktikum am Klassischen Departments des Niederländischen Nationalmuseum für Archäologie in Leiden (RMO) und am Fricktaler Museum in Rheinfelden.
• Seit 01.2015 Archäologe bei der israelischen Antikenbehörde, Leitung von Ausgrabungen und Surveys, hauptsächlich in der Negev Wüste, Hellenistisch bis Spätislamische Stätten.
• 09/2018 bis 09/2021 Promotionsstipendium der israelischen Antikenbehörde
• 05/2022 Promotion an der Ben-Gurion-Universität in Be’er Sheva mit einer Arbeit zu „Settlement patterns in the Northern Negev from the Hellenistic through the Early Islamic period“
• 2022-2023 Assoziierter Fellow am W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem.
• Seit 07.2023 Post-Doc Stipendium der Minerva Stiftung am Archäologischen Institut an der Universität Köln

Monographien:

• Michael, N.D. (2022). Settlement Patterns in the Northern Negev from the Hellenistic through the Early Islamic Periods. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1121
• Taxel, I., and Michael, N.D. (forthcoming). Khirbat ‘Amra: A rural site from the Hellenistic to the Early Islamic periods in the Beersheba Valley. Jerusalem: IAA Reports. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)

Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften und Sammelbänden

• Michael, N.D. (forthcoming). Metal Finds: Weapons, Tools, Jewelry and other Artifacts. In S. Münger (ed.), Kinneret II, 2: The Early Iron Age. Wiesbaden. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)
• Michael, N.D. (forthcoming). Byzantine population of Be’er Sheva, land use, and the connection between settlements in the northern Negev. In S. Rosen, D. Varga, and Y. Tchekhanovets (eds.) Archaeological Excavations and Research Studies in Southern Israel, Collected Papers, Vol. 6. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)
• Shmueli, O., Kogan-Zehavi, E., and Michael, N.D. (forthcoming). From Christianity to Islam - Changes and Continuity from the Late Byzantine to the Early Islamic period. Preliminary results from the excavation in Rahat. In S. Rosen, D. Varga, and Y. Tchekhanovets (eds.) Archaeological Excavations and Research Studies in Southern Israel, Collected Papers, Vol. 6. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority (Hebrew). (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)
• Wieler, N., Michael, N.D., Shmueli, O., Kogan-Zehavi, E., Tepper, Y., and Asscher, Y. (forthcoming). Geological constraints of ancient runoff agriculture in the Negev. In S. Rosen, D. Varga, and Y. Tchekhanovets (eds.) Archaeological Excavations and Research Studies in Southern Israel, Collected Papers, Vol. 6. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)
• Michael, N.D. (forthcoming). Be’er Sheva’ and its Hinterland during the Byzantine Period. In O. Sion, Y. Tepper, N. Shemesh and A. Wiegman. The Negev settlements in the Byzantine period and the agricultural systems around them. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)
• Michael, N.D., and Ganor, S. (forthcoming). The Ancient Roman Necropolis South of Tel Ashqelon. Jerusalem: JERI/Atiqot. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)
• Michael, N.D. (forthcoming). An Engraved Mercury Gemstone from the Roman Necropolis of Tel Ashqelon. Jerusalem: JERI/Atiqot. (angenommen; in Druckvorbereitung)

Ausgrabungsberichte

• Michael, N.D. (2017). Beer Sheva Nahal Beqa. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 129. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D. (2017). Mezad Boqeq. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 129. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D. (2017). Nahal Beer Sheva. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 129. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D. (2017). Hiran. HA-ESI, Vol. 129. Jerusalem.
• Peretz, I., and Michael, N.D. (2017). Netivot, Horbat Bohu. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 129. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D. (2018). Ashqelon. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 130. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D. (2018). Beʼer Sheva, Ha-Gedudim Street. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 130. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D., and Lect Ben Ami, N. (2019). Ashqelon, Agamim Neighborhood. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 131. Jerusalem.
• Ganor, S., and Michael, N.D. (2019). Tel Ashqelon, Tomb. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 131. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D., and Erickson-Gini, T. (2020). Ashqelon, Kh. Khisas. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 132. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D., and Tepper, Y. (2021). Be’er Sheva, Mazliah Intersection. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 133. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D. (2021). Tel Qeshet. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 133. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D., and Erickson-Gini, T. (2022). Netivot, Horvat Bohu. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 134. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D., Shmueli, O., Kogan-Zehavi, E., Aladjem, D.A., Dobrinin, A., Kapranov, I., and Shatil, A. (2022). Rahat (South), Section 10. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 134. Jerusalem.
• Michael, N.D., Shmueli, O., Kogan-Zehavi, E., Aladjem, D.A., Kapranov, I., Montagu A., and Vasiutin J. (2023). Rahat (South), Section 13. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 135. Jerusalem.

Enzyklopädie Beiträge

• Erickson-Gini, T., and Michael, N.D. (2019). Mampsis. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Vol. 17. Pp. 637-639.
• Michael, N.D., and Shmueli, O. (2019). Mar Saba. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Vol. 17. Pp. 862-864.
• Atkinson, K., Michael, N.D., Shmueli, O., and Tearosh, E. (2021). Modein. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Vol. 19. Pp. 539-546.