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Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron

By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
032 The Talmud is, after the Bible itself, Judaism’s most significant and revered collection of sacred writings. Although the Talmud was in fact written and compiled between the Second and Fifth centuries A.D., rabbinic tradition holds that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1978

When Did God Finish Creation?

By Victor Hurowitz
012 The first chapter of Genesis describes how God created heaven and earth and all that is therein, ending with the glorious fashioning of humankind on day six. Then, in Genesis 2:1, we read that “The heaven and the earth were finished; and all...
Bible Review, Winter 1987

Inside Solomon’s Temple

By Victor Hurowitz
024 “Then Solomon said … ‘I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in forever.’” (1 Kings 8:12–13) A vision of Isaiah, “I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of his robe filled the Temple.” (...
Bible Review, April 1994

P—Understanding the Priestly Source

By Victor Hurowitz
030 Reading an introduction to biblical criticism, a beginning student might well think he or she is peering into a bowl of alphabet soup—or perhaps perusing a catalogue of foundations and corporations. Letters are all over the place, especially...
Bible Review, June 1996

From Storm God to Abstract Being

How the deity became more distant from Exodus to Deuteronomy
By Victor Hurowitz
040 A spectacular sound and light show greeted the Israelites when the new nation encountered God for the first time at Mt. Sinai.1 The awesome display of divine presence and power so terrified the Children of Israel that they begged God not to...
Bible Review, October 1998

Wish Upon a Stone

Discovering the idolatry of the even maskit
By Victor Hurowitz
Leviticus bans the Israelites from bowing upon a maskit stone. But what is a maskit? A recently deciphered Assyrian inscription may hold the key to identifying this mysterious prohibited object.
Bible Review, October 1999

Whose Earrings Did Jacob Bury?

By Victor Hurowitz
031 When the patriarch Jacob returns to Canaan with his family after a 20-year sojourn with his uncle Laban, God instructs him to go to Bethel and build an altar (Genesis 35:1). Jacob immediately tells his entourage to rid themselves of the alien...
Bible Review, August 2001

The Golden Calf

Made by Man...or God?
By Victor Hurowitz
028029 While Moses was up on Mt. Sinai receiving the first edition of the Ten Commandments, the people down below grew impatient and asked Aaron, Moses’ brother, to make them another god to...
Bible Review, April 2004

The Genesis of Genesis

Is the Creation Story Babylonian?
By Victor Hurowitz
037 On December 3, 1872, George Smith, a former bank-note engraver turned Assyriologist, stunned the Western world by announcing that he had discovered a Babylonian story of a great Flood resembling the well-known account of the Deluge in the...
Bible Review, Anniversary Issue

Finders of a Real Lost Ark

American archaeologists find remains of ancient synagogue ark in Galilee
By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
024 When we returned to Nabratein in upper Galilee for our second excavation season in June 1981, we were unaware of a movie called “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” This may be difficult to believe, but it is true. Day by day we excavated in the clear...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1981

Bronze Bull Found in Israelite “High Place” from the Time of the Judges

By Amihai Mazar
034 When he found it, Ofer Broshi was on army duty. Army life can be exhausting or boring—or sometimes both. At that moment, Broshi, a rugged young kibbutznik, was more bored than tired. He was resting on the summit of a hill in northern Samaria...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1983

Excavating in Samson Country—Philistines and Israelites at Tel Batash

By George L. KelmAmihai Mazar
036 The period from the time of the Judges to the end of the Israelite monarchy is known in archaeological terms as the Iron Age. It is subdivided into Iron I, the time of the Judges from about 1200 to 1000 B.C., and Iron II, the United and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1989

Masada: Arms and the Man

By Jodi Magness
058 Sometimes we make discoveries not by digging in the ground, but by digging in the records of past excavations. So it is with Masada, Herod’s nearly impregnable palace-fortress in the Judean wilderness, occupied and defended by Jewish Zealots...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1992

Not a Country Villa

By Jodi Magness
038 Everyone wants to know who lived at Qumran, the settlement adjacent to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. And sometimes it seems that everyone has a different opinion. With hopes of helping to solve the riddle, I’d like to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1996

Picturing Imageless Deities

Iconography in the Ancient Near East
By Victor Hurowitz
046 046 046 No Graven Image? Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context Tryggve N.D....
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1997

Illuminating Byzantine Jerusalem

Oil lamps shed light on early Christian worship
By Jodi Magness
040 040 This is the story of how the puzzling inscriptions on some ancient oil lamps illuminate an entire era. These modest artifacts offer us a vivid picture of the spiritual life of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

Will Tel Rehov Save the United Monarchy?

By Amihai MazarJohn Camp
038 039 In the shadow of Mt. Gilboa in the northern Jordan Valley stands one of Israel’s largest, most important archaeological sites—and, until recently, one of the least known. Yet there is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2000

How Jewish Was Sepphoris in Jesus’ Time?

By Mark ChanceyEric M. Meyers
018 019 Sepphoris is a bare 4 miles from Jesus’ hometown, Nazareth. So it is not surprising that the ancient city has become central to the study of the historical Jesus, especially because it...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2000

Yes, They Are

By Eric M. Meyers
046 Hanan Eshel attempts to discredit the identification of mikva’ot at Sepphoris,1 but he also suggests that first-century C.E. Sepphoris, in the time of Jesus, was both a pagan and a Jewish city. This has been the subject of much...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2000

Surprises at Yattir: Unexpected Evidence of Early Christianity

By Hanan EshelJodi MagnessEli Shenhav
032 032 Archaeology is full of surprises. Sometimes we don’t find what we had expected to find. Or we find something we never expected to find. Either way, the experience is always exciting—and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2001

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