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Jeremiah’s Polemic Against Idols

What archaeology can teach us
By Philip J. King
022023 Biblical archaeology envisions a dialogue between artifacts and the scriptural text. In many ways archaeology can provide the context that brings the text to life. Recently I completed a...
Bible Review, December 1994

The Marzeah Amos Denounces—Using Archaeology to Interpret a Biblical Text

By Philip J. King
034 Archaeologists often accuse Biblical scholars of ignoring archaeological materials that could significantly illuminate the Biblical texts that scholars are studying. As one archaeologist recently put it: “Most [Biblical] commentators do not...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1988

Why Lachish Matters

A Major Site Gets the Publication It Deserves
By Philip J. King
Among cities in ancient Judah, Lachish was second only to Jerusalem in importance. A principal Canaanite and, later, Israelite site, Lachish occupied a major tell (mound) 25 miles southwest of Jerusalem, nestled in the foothills of Judah (the region known as the Shephelah).
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2005

BAR Jr.: Digging, Dug, Gone

By Oded Borowski
042 Many people do not realize that archaeology is destructive. Unlike experiments in physics or chemistry, which can be repeated in the lab, once a site has been excavated it cannot be re-excavated. The archaeological remains are gone forever...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1982

BAR Jr.: Sherds, Sherds, Sherds

By Oded Borowski
067 “The remains of the city were found buried under a heavy layer of ash and destruction debris … ” “ … ovens and grinding installations were found in many of the rooms … ” “ … a large cemetery was discovered on a hill facing the tell on the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1982

In the Path of Sennacherib

By Oded Borowski
024 “I laid waste the large district of Judah and made the overbearing and proud Hezekiah, its king, bow in submission,” boasts Sennacherib, monarch of Assyria, in a preserved cuneiform inscription.1 “I laid siege to 46 of his strong cities: .....
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2005

BAR Jr.: Not All That Glitters Is Gold—But Sometimes It Is

By Oded Borowski
058 Some people think of archaeology—incorrectly—as a treasure hunt. Not many archaeologists are as lucky as Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of King Tut with all its glorious treasures. More often than not, archaeologists find neither gold...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1981

Gilgamesh—Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before

A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell
By Jack Meinhardt
Gilgamesh is at once our newest and our oldest, most venerable epic poem. Unlike Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which have been broadly known since their composition around the late eighth century B.C. (except during the medieval Dark Age, when Greek learning was largely lost in the West), the first clay tablets inscribed with the Gilgamesh epic were found just 150 years ago, at the ancient Assyrian site of Nineveh in present-day northern Iraq.
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2005

Canceled!

A new traveling exhibition of 5,000 years of Georgian art is already ancient history
By Jack Meinhardt
042 043 Look at this crucifix,” said Gary Vikan, the director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. He pushed a book across the table and pointed to a photograph of a silver sculpture of...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2000

The Great Eighth Century

By Philip J. King
022023 022 A century is a wholly arbitrary block of time. History surely does not proceed by 100-year chunks. And to mark the beginning and...
Bible Review, August 1989

Archaeological Views: The Value of Experience

By Oded Borowski
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2009

Glossary: Tools of the Archaeological Trade

By Oded Borowski
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1995

Editors’ Page: Indiana Jane

Is a Woman’s Place in Archaeology?
By Jack Meinhardt
Archaeology Odyssey, March/April 2005

Editors’ Page: Who Owns Archaeology?

Certainly not the “Professional Elite”
By Jack Meinhardt
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2005

Editors’ Page: Archaeology Museums in Peril?

A Blow to the Universalist Ideal
By Jack Meinhardt
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2005

Editors’ Page: Mesopotamia in Us

Why We Must Protect Iraqi Archaeology
By Jack Meinhardt
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2004

ReViews: Unsurpassed Reference Updated

The New Enyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Supplementary Volume 5
Ephraim Stern, editor
Reviewed by Philip J. King
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2008

Books in Brief

Reviewed by Hershel ShanksOded Borowski
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986

Editors’ Page: The Two Faces of the AIA

Why the strongarm tactics?
By Jack Meinhardt
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2001

Editors’ Page: Making the Book

How an Issue Falls into Place
By Jack Meinhardt
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2005

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