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Babatha’s Story

Personal archive offers a glimpse of ancient Jewish life
By Anthony J. Saldarini
028 028 The column of Roman soldiers marched slowly south along the western shore of the Dead Sea toward En-Gedi, one of the region’s major governmental and commercial centers and a stronghold...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

Rescue in the Biblical Negev

By Moshe Kochavi
024 As work begins on the infrastructure required to relocate the Israeli army’s bases and training facilities from Sinai to the Negev—in accordance with the Middle East peace agreements—Israel’s archaeological institutions have been mobilized to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1980

An Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges

By Moshe KochaviAaron Demsky
019 One of the most critical battles in early Israelite history was fought about 1050 B.C. between the Israelites and the Philistines. At that time, the Bible tells us, the twelve tribes had settled the land and the Ark of the Covenant had been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1978

Tripartite Buildings: Divided Structures Divide Scholars

By Moshe Kochavi
044 BAR readers, as well as scholars, have long puzzled over the distinctive tripartite pillared buildings that have been discovered in so many excavations in Israel. Their architecture seems simple enough: long rectangular buildings divided into...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1999

Rediscovered! The Land of Geshur

By Moshe KochaviTimothy RennerIra SparEsther Yadin
030 031 Not without some justification did Absalom arrange the murder of his half-brother Amnon. Amnon had raped Absalom’s sister Tamar. Nonetheless, fratricide among King David’s sons was not...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1992

Understanding Matthew’s Vitriol

By Anthony J. Saldarini
032 Seven times in one chapter (23) of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus curses the “scribes and Pharisees” as hypocrites and blind guides. This occurs after numerous disputes with leaders of the Jewish community in Galilee and a series of...
Bible Review, April 1997

Scribe Links Qumran and Masada

By Sidnie White Crawford
039 Recently Ada Yardeni, the foremost paleographer working in Israel today, made a startling claim: More than 50 Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts were copied by the same scribe.1 The 54 manuscripts came from six different caves: Qumran Caves 1, 2, 3...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2012

An Alphabet from the Days of the Judges

By Aaron DemskyMoshe Kochavi
023 At a site called Izbet Sartah, now believed by some scholars, to be Biblical Ebenezer, a recent excavation by Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan Universities has uncovered a small clay potsherd—unrelated to the Biblical story—which, however,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1978

Creating Woman

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
How was the first woman created in Genesis 2? Was she made from the man’s rib or, as recently suggested in BAR, from his os baculum (penis bone)?
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2016

Esther Not Judith

Why one made it and the other didn’t
By Sidnie White Crawford
022023 Brave, wise and stunningly beautiful, Esther and Judith have much in common. Both Jewish heroines live under foreign domination. Both risk their lives to save their people from...
Bible Review, February 2002

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Frank Moore CrossEmanuel TovSidnie White CrawfordMartin Abegg, Jr.
038 In this issue four prominent scholars tell BAR readers how the scrolls changed their lives. Harvard’s Frank Cross is the doyen of Dead Sea Scroll scholars; his views come in an interview with BAR editor Hershel Shanks. In the pages that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2007

Has Every Book of the Bible Been Found Among the Dead Sea Scrolls?

By Sidnie White Crawford
028 029 It is a commonplace that every book of the Hebrew Bible except Esther has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Actually, this is true only if you count Ezra-Nehemiah as one book—as,...
Bible Review, October 1996

The Fluid Bible

The blurry line between biblical and nonbiblical texts
By Sidnie White Crawford
We like to think of Holy Writ as unchanging, but the ancients didn’t. A study of the Dead Sea Scrolls reveals that texts could exist in different forms—even be consciously modified—without losing their sanctity.
Bible Review, June 1999

Biblical Views: How a People Forms

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

Biblical Views: The Archaeology of Rahab

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

Biblical Views: Who Did Cain Marry?

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2013

Biblical Views: Of Philistines and Phalluses

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008

Biblical Views: The Bible Divide

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012

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Bible Review, April 1988

Divine Scents

God doesn’t just see and hear the Israelites, he can smell them too.
By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Bible Review, August 2003

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