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Has Joshua’s Altar Been Found on Mt. Ebal?

By Adam Zertal
026 To appreciate fully the significance of the unique altar and cult center we are excavating on Mt. Ebal, one must first understand the archaeological context in which these discoveries were made. We found the altar and cult center, not in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1985

A Short History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What They Tell Us

By Lawrence H. Schiffman
045 I want to say here and now how grateful I am to the original team of Dead Sea Scroll scholars who failed to publish the bulk of the scrolls for nearly 40 years and refused to let other scholars see them in the meantime. But for them, I...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2015

Back to Megiddo

A new expedition will explore the jewel in the crown of Canaan/Israel
By Israel FinkelsteinDavid Ussishkin
026 028 Tel Megiddo is widely regarded as the most important archaeological site in Israel from Biblical times, and as one of the most significant sites for the study of the ancient Near East...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1994

The Significance of the Scrolls

The second generation of scholars—or is it the third?—offers a new perspective on the texts from the Qumran caves
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
019 Dead Sea Scroll scholarship is undergoing a virtual revolution. New ideas and perspectives are percolating among the small group of scholars who dedicate themselves to primary research on the content of the scrolls. Recent publications focus...
Bible Review, October 1990

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Geza VermesLawrence H. Schiffman
054 The Quote Heard ’Round the World It was 1948—I was studying theology and the Bible in Louvain (Belgium) at a college run by French-speaking Jesuits—when I first read in the press about a sensational Hebrew manuscript discovery dating to the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail

By Adam Zertal
028 030 After 12 years of surveying and excavating in the land allotted in the Bible to the tribe of Manasseh, it is now possible to suggest new ideas on the emergence of Israel in Canaan,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1991

Philistine Kin Found in Early Israel

By Adam Zertal
018 018 Almost from the beginning, the site of el-Ahwat was different—or, shall we say, strange. We first discovered it in 1992 during our archaeological survey of the hill country of Manasseh...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2002

New Light on the Pharisees

Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
030 The texts from Qumran lead us to a new understanding of the history of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Initial research on the scrolls naturally concentrated on the Dead Sea Scroll sect. But the full corpus will teach us a tremendous...
Bible Review, June 1992

Answers at Lachish

Sennacherib’s destruction of Lachish identified; dispute over a century’s difference in Israelite pottery dating resolved by new excavations; stamp impressions of Judean kings finally dated.
By David Ussishkin
016 Lachish was one of the most important cities of the Biblical era in the Holy Land. The impressive mound, named Tel Lachish in Hebrew or Tell ed-Duweir in Arabic, is situated about 25 miles southwest of Jerusalem in the Judean hills. Once a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1979

Bible Books: One Bible from Many?

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English
Martin Abegg, Jr., Peter Flint and Eugene Ulrich
Reviewed by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Bible Review, August 2001

Another View: Was the Earliest Philistine City of Ekron Fortified?

The Excavators Say “Yes,” Our Author Says “No.”
By David Ussishkin
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2006

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