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Capital Archaeology
7,200 Scholars and two precious artifacts come to Washington for the Annual Meeting
For nine years, I have written reviews of the Annual Meetinga as objectively as possible. This year, however, I admit to being prejudiced—prejudiced in favor of this year’s meeting...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1994
Biblical Archaeology: Whither and Whence
Looking back with Eric and Carol Meyers
Duke professors Eric and Carol Meyers gained national prominence when they discovered the Torah ark at Nabratein, Israel, in 1981. But that’s only part of their story. On December 22, 2014, I sat down and talked to them about their past 40 years in Biblical archaeology.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2015
Death Knell for Israel Archaeology?
For years, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel have used any means at their disposal, including violence, to stop archaeological excavations on the alleged ground that ancient Jewish graves are being desecrated. Recent elections have significantly...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1996
The Missing Millennium in Jerusalem’s Archaeology
What happened to tenth-century B.C. Jerusalem? This has been the focus of much recent scholarly attention and has engaged BAR readers as well.a The tenth century was the time of the United Monarchy of Israel, the glory days of King David and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2000
Archaeology’s Dirty Secret
What may turn out to be a historic meeting took place at Lehigh University last May. Eight senior scholars convened to face what one participant called the profession’s “dirty secret”: Archaeologists love to dig, but hate to write publication...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1994
Archaeological Encyclopedia for the 90s
Ephraim Stern, editor (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Carta; New York:...
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1993
Archaeological High Horse
By Arthur Segal, Michael Eisenberg, Jolanta Młynarczyk, Mariusz Burdajewicz and Mark Schuler...
Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis: The First Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2000–2011), Vol. 1 Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2014
Absorbing Archaeology at the Jerusalem Congress
A congress on Biblical archaeology can’t help but be successful in Jerusalem. The subject seeps from Jerusalem’s stones. And the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1990
Ein Gedi’s Archaeological Riches
I have visited Ein Gedi, the oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea, a number of times. But not until I looked at this volume did I appreciate its rich variety of archaeological treasures. Most tourists who stop here come for the natural...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2008
Peace, Politics and Archaeology
The Middle East “peace process”—may it be thy will, O Lord—has raised two thorny archaeological issues. Both have recently been in the news. The first concerns archaeological finds recovered in territories taken in war and later ceded—or to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1994
Archaeological Hot Spots
A roundup of digs in Israel
In an oft-repeated story that the Patent Office denies, a 19th-century Commissioner of Patents announced that he would retire because everything that could be invented would soon be invented. I was reminded of this story as I traveled from...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1996
Cypriot Land Mines
Military, political and archaeological
We couldn’t get to the fifth-century B.C. tomb at Pyla, said to be one of the finest of the period, because minefields were being cleared that day and the road was closed. Pyla, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, lies near the border...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2002
The Great MFA Exposé
But will it stop archaeological looting?
Last year, on the Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s, the lead story on the front page of The Boston Globe was not about President Clinton’s impending impeachment trial in the Senate, nor about Saddam Hussein’s effort to shoot...
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 1999
Should the Term “Biblical Archaeology” Be Abandoned?
“No such thing as ‘Biblical archaeology’,” says prominent scholar
One of the best-known and highly-respected archaeologists in the world is urging that the term “Biblical Archaeology” be dropped. He is Professor William G. Dever, chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Arizona in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1981
Is Withholding Pictures of Archaeological Finds Justifiable?
BAR lauds Avigad's scholarship but finds his refusal to release pictures indefensible
We are delighted to report that Professor Nachman Avigad has published in a recent issue of the Israel Exploration Journal a report and picture of the “Justinian” inscription which he found in the Old City of Jerusalem...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1978
The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 1
An interview with Moshe and Trude Dothan
They are the first family of Israeli archeology. Trude and Moshe Dothan each have more than four decades of experience in the field, having excavated such major sites as Hazor, Hammath Tiberius, Nahariya, Deir el-Balah, Akko, Ashdid and Ekron...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1993
The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 2
An interview with Moshe and Trude Dothan
In our previous issue (“The Philistines and the Dothans—An Archaeological Romance, Part 1,” BAR 19:04), archaeologists Moshe and Trude Dothan spoke with Hershel Shanks about their early years together, as were embarking on careers in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1993
Jeremiah’s Polemic Against Idols
What archaeology can teach us
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
Yes, Virginia, There IS an American Biblical Archaeology Museum
(Hint: It’s in Brooklyn)
I have often lamented that, although there are thousands of museums in the United States devoted to every conceivable topic, there is not a single museum here devoted to Biblical archaeology. I have recently been challenged on this assertion—...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2004
Is It or Isn’t It?
King Jehoash Inscription Captivates Archaeological World
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