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Benjamin Mazar Reminisces

Excavating 50 years ago took courage but little money
By Bill Clark
062 “It was different then,” the archaeologist said. “Today there are institutes and technicians, engineers, directors and subdirectors!” “Back then, we had nothing,” he said. “But it was a wonderful period. A time of life. A time of courage; no...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1984

The Case of the Gilded Staircase

Did the Dead Sea Scroll sect worship the sun?
By Morton Smith
050 Yigael Yadin’s magnificent edition of the Temple Scroll1—the latest-to-be-published and the longest of all the Dead Sea Scrolls—has been available to scholars in Hebrew for over four years and last year became available in a three-volume...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1984

The Biblical Oryx—A New Name for an Ancient Animal

Soon it will again roam the wilderness of the Holy Land as it roams the pages of the Bible
By Bill Clark
066 In the King James Version of the Bible, it’s translated unicorn. But that’s not what re’em means. Re’em is the Hebrew name for Oryx leucoryx or oryx for short. This animal is also called the Arabian oryx, the White oryx...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1984

Sumptuous Roman Baths Uncovered Near Sea of Galilee

Hot springs drew the afflicted from around the world
By Giora SolarYizhar Hirschfeld
022 According to the Greek biographer Eunapius, the second most beautiful bath complex in the entire Roman Empire during the fourth century A.D. was located in, of all places, Palestine—at a site known as Hammat Gader.1 Hammat Gader lies just...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1984

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