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Erasing History

The minimalist assault on ancient Israel
By Baruch Halpern
026 The recent discovery at Tel Dan of a ninth-century B.C.E. inscription—the first extra-biblical reference to the House of David—is causing extraordinary contortions among scholars who have maintained that the Bible’s history of the early...
Bible Review, December 1995

The Great Mikveh Debate

By Ronny Reich
052 In a letter to the editor in Queries...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1993

Radical Exodus Redating Fatally Flawed

By Baruch Halpern
056 In the September/October BAR, John Bimson and David Livingston wrote an article entitled “Redating the Exodus,” BAR 13:05, in which they radically revise a number of generally accepted dates and conclude that the Exodus occurred in the latter...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1987

In the Beginning: Religion at the Dawn of Civilization

By Ben Witherington III
057 Some call it Turkey’s Stonehenge. In fact, the circles of massive stones standing high on a hill are more than 5,000 years older than Britain’s famous megaliths. From Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) in southeastern Turkey, you can see 50 or...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2013

“God Knows Their Names”

Mass Christian grave revealed in Jerusalem
By Ronny Reich
026 How many thousands of Christians were massacred when the Persians conquered Jerusalem in 614 C.E. is unknown, but if surviving historical records are at all reliable, the number was huge. We now have the first archaeological evidence that may...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1996

Eyewitness Testimony

Parts of Exodus Written Within Living Memory of the Event
By Baruch Halpern
050 How old are the Bible’s narratives of the Exodus from Egypt? Can we really date the texts that preserve those narratives? And if so, what is the oldest Biblical text that discusses the Exodus? To start with the answer, we can date...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

Jude

Another Brother of Jesus
By Ben Witherington III
15 When Jesus preaches in his hometown synagogue, the locals are astounded. “Where did this man get all this? ... Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?” (Mark 6:3). Readers of BR (and...
Bible Review, Fall 2005

Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes

By Ronny Reich
038 Very few of the hundreds of people who walk through the pages of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament have been attested in archaeological finds.a Now, to that small list, we may add, in all probability, the high priest who presided at...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1992

They Are Ritual Baths

Immerse yourself in the ongoing Sepphoris mikveh debate
By Ronny Reich
050 050 050 Scholars have been arguing for some time about the purpose of several plaster-clad stepped pools in the ancient Galilean...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002

The Assassination of Eglon

The first locked-room murder mystery
By Baruch Halpern
033 Ancient Israel’s authors wrote for Israelites, in Israelite language, with Israelite assumptions. That audiences on distant continents, millennia later, would be trying to piece together what they meant was a thought that never occurred to...
Bible Review, December 1988

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Warren’s Shaft theory of David’s conquest shattered
By Ronny ReichEli Shukron
022 022 We thought we understood the complicated waterworks beneath the area of Jerusalem known as the City of David, the oldest part of the city. But new excavations near the Gihon Spring will...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1999

Biblical Views: Text Archaeology: The Finding of Lightfoot’s Lost Manuscripts

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2014

First Person: Antiquities in Poems

By Ronny Reich
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2011

Biblical Views: Images of Crucifixion: Fresh Evidence

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2013

The Rise of Ancient Israel

This work is composed of three outstanding lectures about the emergence of the ancient Israelites and their religion presented at a symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution in the fall of 1991. Professors William Dever, Baruch Halpern, and P. Kyle McCarter Jr., specialists in the fields of...

ReViews: From Genesis to Revelation in Pictures and Maps

Discovery House Bible Atlas
By John A. Beck
Reviewed by Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2016

Destinations: Butrint, Albania

So famous was the Greek and Roman city of Butrint that the poet Virgil called it “Troy in miniature.”
By Judith Harris
Archaeology Odyssey, Spring 1998

Field Notes

By Judith Harris
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2002

Field Notes

By Judith HarrisMichael H. SedgeRaymond Stock
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2002

Megiddo

An update to Vol. 3, pp. 1003–1024.
By Israel FinkelsteinDavid UssishkinBaruch Halpern
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

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