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Michael Gerald Hasel is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist. He completed his PhD in 1996 at the University of Arizona under William G. Dever and Richard H. Wilkinson. His dissertation was later published as Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant, 1300-1185 BC (Leiden, Brill, 1998).

Hasel's primary research interests are in Late Bronze Age Canaan and Egyptian interaction with the Eastern Mediterranean world through textual studies and archaeological research. He has excavated extensively at Idalion in Cyprus; Ashkelon, Dor, Gezer, Masada, and Hazor in Israel; and at Jalul in Jordan.

He is currently Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Curator of the Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum, and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology at Southern Adventist University.

• (1994) "Israel in the Merneptah Stela." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 296:45–61.

• (1998) "A Textual and Iconographic Note on the Terms prt and mnt in Egyptian Military Accounts. Göttinger Miszellen 167:61-72.

• (1998) Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant, 1300–1185 BC. Probleme der Ägyptologie 11. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-10984-6

• (2003) "Merenptah's Inscription and Reliefs and the Origin of Israel" in Beth Alpert Nakhai ed. The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G. Dever, pp. 19–44. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 58. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. ISBN 0-89757-065-0

• (2004). "The Structure of the Final Hymnic-Poetic Unit on the Merenptah Stela." Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 116:75–81.

• (2005) Military Practics and Polemic: Israel's Laws of Warfare in Near Eastern Perspective. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press.

• Institute of Archaeology, Southern Adventist University