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“The Nobles of the People Dug It”: Remembering Three Archaeological Giants

By Daniel M. MasterHillel GevaDaniel WarnerDonald D. BinderEric M. MeyersJames Riley Strange
Three significant scholars—who shaped and influenced the field of Biblical archaeology—recently passed away, but their legacies live on. The impact of Lawrence E. Stager, Ephraim Stern, and James F. Strange will be felt for generations to come.
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2018

Politics—Not Religious Law—Rules Ultra-Orthodox Demonstrators

By Gabriel Barkay
056 Political power, not religious law, motivates the ultra-Orthodox in Israel who violently protest archaeological excavations, claiming that ancient Jewish graves are being desecrated. Jewish religious law (halakhah) does not prohibit...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?

By Yigael Yadin
016 017 There are essentially two views of the Israelite occupation of Canaan. The first conforms in its main outlines to the Biblical view; that is, the Israelite occupation was initiated by...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1982

Hazor and the Battle of Joshua—Is Joshua 11 Wrong?

By Yigael Yadin
003 In his article “Hazor and The Battle of Deborah—Is Judges 4 Wrong?” BAR 01:04, Yohanan Aharoni writes (concerning the apparent endorsement by the BAR editor of my view that Judges 4 is “a late inaccurate gloss...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

Relics in Rubble: The Temple Mount Sifting Project

By Gabriel BarkayZachi Dvira
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is one of the world’s holiest sites; archaeological excavations are prohibited here. But, in November 1999, the Islamic trust that controls the Islamic structures on the site bulldozed a massive area in the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount and dumped the excavated debris into the Kidron Valley. Two archaeologists are running a pioneering project to wet-sift this debris to search for Temple Mount artifacts that have been concealed for centuries.
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2016

Yadin Answers Beer-Sheva Excavator—Reply to Rainey's "No Bama at Beer-Sheva"

By Yigael Yadin
003 Anson Rainey’s vicious and vulgar attack on my theory concerning the Beer-Sheva cult place (“Beer-Sheva Excavator Blasts Yadin—No Bama at Beer-Sheva,” BAR 03:03) deserves no reply. But since BAR is widely read by...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1977

Yigael Yadin on “Hazor, the Head of All Those Kingdoms”

By Yigael Yadin
003 The site of Hazor, located in upper Galilee, consists of a 30-acre upper tell, plus an adjacent plateau at a lower level of over 175 acres. The tell, unlike the plateau, was occupied almost continuously from the 27th century B.C. to the 2nd...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1975

Royal Palace, Royal Portrait?

The Tantalizing Possibilities of Ramat Raḥel
By Gabriel Barkay
034 The first Judahite royal palace ever exposed in an archaeological excavation is bei ng rediscovered. And with this renewed interest come echoes of what is probably one of the bitterest rivalries in the history of Israeli ar chaeology—between...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2006

28 Years Later Couple Recalls Finding “Lost Ark”

By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
044 It’s been 28 years since we finished our excavations at Nabratein and we’ve just published our final report, a hefty volume of 472 pages.1 Twenty-eight years may seem like a very long time; but for us, it seems like yesterday. We retain...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2010

The Garden Tomb: Was Jesus Buried Here?

By Gabriel Barkay
040 First-time visitors to Jerusalem are often surprised to learn that two very different sites vie for recognition as the burial place of Jesus. One is, as its name implies, the Holy Sepulchre Church; it is located in a crowded area of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986

The Mystery of the Unexplained Chain

A chain reaction at Lachish
By Yigael Yadin
065 In the March/April BAR, David Ussishkin reported on the Assyrian siege ramp and the Judean counter ramp that he excavated at Lachish (see “Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season,” BAR 10:02). His report, together with...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1984

Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron

By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
032 The Talmud is, after the Bible itself, Judaism’s most significant and revered collection of sacred writings. Although the Talmud was in fact written and compiled between the Second and Fifth centuries A.D., rabbinic tradition holds that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1978

What’s an Egyptian Temple Doing in Jerusalem?

By Gabriel Barkay
048 049 Recent attacks on the historicity of the United Monarchy of David and Solomon (in the tenth century B.C.) have focused on the scant archaeological remains that have been discovered in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2000

Mounds of Mystery

Where the Kings of Judah Were Lamented
By Gabriel Barkay
032 At the beginning of the 20th century, when Jerusalem, still centered around its ancient core, was surrounded by agricultural land and orchards, 20 mysterious earth-and-stone mounds rose above the city’s western horizon, clearly visible from...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2003

How Jewish Was Sepphoris in Jesus’ Time?

By Mark ChanceyEric M. Meyers
018 019 Sepphoris is a bare 4 miles from Jesus’ hometown, Nazareth. So it is not surprising that the ancient city has become central to the study of the historical Jesus, especially because it...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2000

Jerusalem Tombs from the Days of the First Temple

A few hundred yards from Damascus Gate and over the wall from the Garden Tomb, magnificent burial cave lies beneath a Dominican monastery.
By Gabriel BarkayAmos Kloner
023 024 Damascus Gate, the most important entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, fairly bustles with activity inside and out. Arab men in their robes and keffiyehs; Arab women in long embroidered...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986

Finders of a Real Lost Ark

American archaeologists find remains of ancient synagogue ark in Galilee
By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
024 When we returned to Nabratein in upper Galilee for our second excavation season in June 1981, we were unaware of a movie called “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” This may be difficult to believe, but it is true. Day by day we excavated in the clear...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1981

Burial Headrest as a Return to the Womb—A Reevaluation

By Gabriel Barkay
048 In “The Peculiar Headrests for the Dead in First Temple Times,” BAR 13:04, Professor Othmar Keel takes issue with an earlier BAR article in which Amos Kloner and I discussed these stone headrests carved on top of burial benches (“Jerusalem...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1988

Yes, They Are

By Eric M. Meyers
046 Hanan Eshel attempts to discredit the identification of mikva’ot at Sepphoris,1 but he also suggests that first-century C.E. Sepphoris, in the time of Jesus, was both a pagan and a Jewish city. This has been the subject of much...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2000

Is a Piece of Herod’s Temple in St. Paul’s Cathedral?

By Gabriel Barkay
063 If you’d like to see what may be a piece of the Second Temple (Herod’s Temple), pay a visit to St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. I’ll tell you later where in the church it can be found. To explain how it got there, we must explore the life of a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2007

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