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Capital Archaeology

7,200 Scholars and two precious artifacts come to Washington for the Annual Meeting
By Hershel Shanks
046 047 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
By Hershel Shanks
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?

By Hershel Shanks
048 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

By Hershel Shanks
034 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

By Hershel Shanks
063 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

By Hershel Shanks
058 The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Ephraim Stern, editor (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Carta; New York:...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1993

Archaeological High Horse

By Hershel Shanks
055 Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis: The First Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2000–2011), Vol. 1 By Arthur Segal, Michael Eisenberg, Jolanta Młynarczyk, Mariusz Burdajewicz and Mark Schuler...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2014

Absorbing Archaeology at the Jerusalem Congress

By Hershel Shanks
050 051 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

By Hershel Shanks
058 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

By Hershel Shanks
050 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
By Hershel Shanks
052 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
By Hershel Shanks
020 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?
By Hershel Shanks
018 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
By Hershel Shanks
054 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
By Hershel Shanks
030 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
By Hershel Shanks
022 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
By Hershel Shanks
040 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
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

Yes, Virginia, There IS an American Biblical Archaeology Museum

(Hint: It’s in Brooklyn)
By Hershel Shanks
047 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
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

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