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Is It or Isn’t It?

King Jehoash Inscription Captivates Archaeological World
By Hershel Shanks
022 Mystery, politics, Biblical implications, gold—a newly surfaced inscription purporting to be by King Jehoash has it all. And it may be a forgery! If authentic, it would be the first royal inscription ever found of an Israelite king. If...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2003

The History Behind the Bible

BAR Interviews Avraham Malamat
By Hershel Shanks
040 A deep fissure runs through Biblical studies today. On one side are those who maintain that the Bible contains much reliable history; on the other side are those who say the Biblical texts were written much later than the events they describe...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2003

What About the Jehoash Inscription?

By Hershel Shanks
038 The stone tablet that purports to have been commissioned by Jehoash, the ninth-century B.C.E. king of Judah, raised questions from the start. The first line of the inscription is missing, including the name Jehoash; the top of the plaque is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

Paleography—An Uncertain Tool in Forgery Detection

By Hershel Shanks
037 Until recently, paleography—the study of the form and slant of the letters of an ancient inscription—was the chief means of determining whether an inscription was authentic or a modern forgery. The shape of each ancient letter has developed...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

The Paleographer: Demonstrably a Forgery

By Hershel Shanks
027 Was it too good to be true? In recent months, the world learned of an inscribed tablet apparently written by Jehoash, the ninth-century B.C.E. king of Judah. But almost immediately, questions were raised about its authenticity. After...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2003

The “Three Shekels” and “Widow’s Plea” Ostraca: Real or Fake?

By Hershel Shanks
040 One of the most astounding inscriptions to surface in recent years records a donation of three shekels to the Temple of the Lord (Beyt Yhwh) in Jerusalem. It is written on a broken piece of pottery (called an ostracon) and dates...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2003

“Will Marty Abegg Ever Find a Job?”

Scroll Scholar Thrives Despite Unauthorized Publication
By Martin Abegg, Jr.Michael PhelpsHershel Shanks
036 The monopoly over access to the Dead Sea Scrolls was broken in 1991. One of the key events in that breakup was the publication of Dead Sea Scroll texts that had been reconstructed by computer from a concordance. We will here detail this...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2003

Cracks in James Bone Box Repaired

Crowds Flock to Toronto Exhibit
By Hershel Shanks
020 021 News of our exclusive cover story in the last issue about the bone box inscribed “James, the son of Joseph, brother of Jesus” has reverberated around the globe. The day after we...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2003

First Person: Israel Antiquities Authority Suspects BAR Editor of Colluding with Forgers

A report from Kafka-land.
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

First Person: Create a Fake and Win $10,000

Biblical Archaeology Society announces new competition
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2003

Israel Antiquities Authority Declines Dirty Money

By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2003

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

Hitchhiking and the Bible

Reading the Bible is like traveling in a foreign land.
By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Bible Review, April 2003

Seeing God

God appears in a colorful spectrum of images in the Bible.
By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Bible Review, December 2003

Festschrift for Moussaieff

With new insights, scholars honor a unique collector
Reviewed by Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2003

Appreciation: Elie Borowski, 1913–2003

By William W. HalloHershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2003

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