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Rescue in the Biblical Negev
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
The Birth & Death of Biblical Minimalism
“Biblical minimalism,” as it is known, has gone through a number of permutations in the recent past. Its modern career began about 30 years ago, when BAR was still a youngster. Since then it has been part of the ongoing debate regarding the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2011
An Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges
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
The Scrolls Are Here!
Library of Congress is first of three American venues
Walk into the Madison Building of the Library of Congress (LC), turn left just inside the entrance, and you can gaze at what less than two years ago only a small handful of scholars were allowed to see: a dozen Dead Sea Scroll fragments from...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1993
Tripartite Buildings: Divided Structures Divide Scholars
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
The Puzzling Doorways of Solomon’s Temple
The Bible tells us that the doors of the inner shrine of Solomon’s Temple had five mezuzot (singular mezuzah) (1 Kings 6:31). Whatever they were, the Bible is not referring to the little parchment texts in a case posted on the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2015
Rejected! Qeiyafa’s Unlikely Second Gate
Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa have uncovered a second city gate from the 10th century B.C.E., the time of King David’s reign. No other site from this period has more than one gate. What do Qeiyafa’s two city gates tell us about the Kingdom of Judah in David’s time?
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2017
Rediscovered! The Land of Geshur
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
Return to Lachish
“It feels good to be back,” says David Ussishkin as we approach the impressive mound of Lachish, a major military outpost of the Judahite kingdom that fell to a massive Assyrian onslaught in 701 B.C. The Assyrian king Sennacherib celebrated...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2002
Return to Aroer
A trip through the ages with the ageless Avraham Biran
“Do you see those pottery sherds?” asks 92-year-old Avraham Biran as he points with his cane to the sun-baked earth of Aroer, an...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2002
Return to Aphek
“You can count the centuries as we go down the stairs. We’re going from the 16th century A.D. to the 13th century B.C.,” says excavator Moshe Kochavi as he leads me to some steps inside...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2002
25 Years of Kicking Up Some Dust
“We shun controversy,” BAR editor Hershel Shanks likes to tell visitors to our offices. Yeah, right. BAR was not founded as a muckraking publication, but in our day we’ve had our share of causes, controversies, battles—even an international...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2001
The Yarwhosians?
You may not have heard of them, but the civilized Neolithic Yarmukians created some of the world’s earliest clay sculptures.
Prepare to fall in love—with our friends the Yarmukians. Since they lived almost 8,000 years ago, about 3,000 years before people began communicating in writing, you can’t ask them who...
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2000
Turmoil at the Harvard Semitic Museum
Did Martin Peretz accuse director Stager of anti-Semitism? Is Peretz guilty of libel?
The entire staff of the Harvard Semitic Museum—home of one of this country’s most important archaeological collections—has been dismissed, leading to a rancorous contretemps concerning the institution’s leadership and its future direction...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1994
An Alphabet from the Days of the Judges
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
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
An Ending and a Beginning
Why we’re leaving Qeiyafa and going to Lachish
The current heated debate on the relationship between history, the Bible and archaeology focuses on the tenth century B.C.E., the time of David and Solomon. In the early years of research, the Biblical narratives of David, Solomon and his son...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2013
Ephraim Stern named Chairman of Archaeological Council
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2001
Biblical Views: How a People Forms
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006
Biblical Views: The Archaeology of Rahab
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007