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Mt. Sinai—in Arabia?

By Allen Kerkeslager
We set off…to climb each of the mountains,” wrote the fourth-century C.E. Christian pilgrim Egeria of her visit to Mt. Sinai. “They are hard to climb. You do not go round and round them...
Bible Review, April 2000

Save Us from Postmodern Malarkey

By William G. Dever
There are some who claim that the Bible contains little or no historical information about ancient Israel. I want to combat these “minimalist” or “revisionist” views of the history of ancient Israel by showing how archaeology can and does...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2000

Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? No

The Tophet was the final resting place for the still-born and for children who died in early infancy.
By M’hamed Hassine Fantar
Were it not for a few classical accounts, scholars would probably not attribute the burials in the Carthage Tophet to child sacrifice. Some of the more sensational stories, such as those related by the first-century B.C. historian Diodorus...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2000