# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-asher-silberman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:40:46.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-asher-silberman"
name: "Neil Asher Silberman"
slug: "neil-asher-silberman"
description: "Neil Asher Silberman is an American archaeologist and historian with a special interest in biblical archaeology. He is the author of several books, including The Hidden Scrolls, The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, and Digging for God and Country. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he studied Near Eastern archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Awarded a 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship, he is a contributing editor to Archaeology and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Property. He served as the president of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation (ICIP) and was a member of the ICOMOS International Advisory Committee and Scientific Council from 2005–2015. In 2015 he was named a Fellow of US/ICOMOS."
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birthDate: "1950-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump