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Richard A. Freund
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Biography
Richard A. Freund was the Bertram and Gladys Chair of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He was a field archaeologist and historian of Judaism who together with geoscientists from around the world had developed a new method for working on sites with particular social, political, and religious sensitivities where traditional archaeological techniques cannot easily be used. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Time, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, and Archaeology and has been featured on the BBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and Fox News. Some of the projects he has worked on have been chronicled in 20 television documentaries from National Geographic, CNN, BBC, Discovery, History Channel and PBS.