Nadav Na'aman

His father was Professor Shlomo Naaman, who taught in the Department of General History of Tel Aviv University (TAU).

Na'aman received his doctorate in 1975 from Tel Aviv University with Yohanan Aharoni as supervisor, with a thesis on the importance of the Amarna letters for the history of Israel.

[1] Earlier, in one of these two pieces, researchers read the name of Azariah, King of Judah, and therefore assumed that he took part in the war that was going on in central Syria.

Na'aman teamed up with archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Yuval Goren to try to determine the origin of the Amarna tablets.

The three authored the book Inscribed in Clay, in which they presented the data from their research, including conclusions about the origin of the tablets and what this implies for the study of the Amarna documents.

[2] There are also cases where the names of places are mentioned, but researchers disagreed on their identification, thus a petrographic examination of the clay made it possible to decide the debate.