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Putting the Bible on the Map

By James Fleming
An understanding of geography is essential to an understanding of many sections of the Bible. For this reason, an up-to-date atlas—maybe more than one—is a tool no serious student of the Bible can be without. There are at least four reasons why geography is important. First and perhaps most...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1983

Living Plants as Archaeological Artifacts

By Avinoam Danin
024 The climate of the Near East has not changed since Biblical times, according to most scientists, a view shared by climatologists, as well as by geologists and dendrochronologists (experts in dating tree rings). Thus most plants in Bible lands...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1975

Plants as Biblical Metaphors

By Avinoam Danin
020 For our ancestors, wild plants and animals of the Holy Land served as symbols and metaphors. These people were closer to nature than we are today and they understood the life cycles of the plants and animals about them. In the Bible, they...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1979

The First Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt

3000 year old treaty sealed by marriage of Pharaoh’s daughter to King Solomon.
By Abraham Malamat
058 The recent peace treaty between Egypt and Israel may have a historical precedent from almost 3000 years ago. Then too, these two nations wisely decided that peaceful co-existence was better than military confrontation. The peace accord in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1979

“Eves” of Everyday Ancient Israel

By Carol Meyers
051 Women are vastly underrepresented in the Hebrew Bible. Named men outnumber women by about ten to one. And the women who do appear are mostly exceptional or elite women, not the majority who were farm women. Not only are women underrepresented...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2014

“Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”—What It Really Means

By Abraham Malamat
050 It is one of the fundamental commandments of the Torah (the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses). It is exemplary of Jewish morality, and it very early characterized the Christian faith as well. For 2,000 years, however, it has been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1990

The “House of David” and the House of the Deconstructionists

Davies is an amateur who “can safely be ignored”
By Anson F. Rainey
047 In response to Philip R. Davies’s brief article (“‘House of David’ Built on Sand,” BAR 20:04), a few observations are in order. Apart from the details of the Dan (and now the Mesha) inscriptions, there is a wider issue that concerns both...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1994

How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities

By Abraham Malamat
024 025 For over 50 years now, a school of thought associated with the names of the great German scholars Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth has espoused a particular view of what is described in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1982

Shasu or Habiru: Who Were the Early Israelites?

By Anson F. Rainey
051 It is time to clarify for BAR readers the widely discussed relationship between the habiru, who are well documented in Egyptian and Near Eastern inscriptions, and the Hebrews of the Bible. There is absolutely no relationship! The first...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008

Yohanan Aharoni—The Man and His Work

By Anson F. Rainey
039 Research in the land of the Bible has suffered a heavy loss in the untimely death of Yohanan Aharoni, chairman of the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. To his associates he has bequeathed the task of continuing and summarizing...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

Biblical Archaeology 101: Why We Dig: The Aims of Archaeology

By Carol Meyers
Archaeological remains, whether grand or mundane, fill us with a sense of wonder. Does this interest come from the artifacts themselves or from wanting to understand those who made and used them? As our author explains, archaeology is much more than towering monuments and buried treasure.
Biblical Archaeology Review, Winter 2021

Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple?

By Carol Meyers
047 Did Solomon’s temple contain a seven-branched lampstand known as a menorah? Most people answer this question with an automatic “of course.” 048 But the Biblical text is not so clear. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1979

“Do You Know When the Ibexes Give Birth?”

By Avinoam Danin
050 The Hebrew word ya-el appears three times in the Bible. In English translations it is usually translated as “wild goat,” and in some modern translations, as “mountain-goat.” In actuality, the Hebrew ya-el is the ibex (Capra...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1979

Inside, Outside: Where Did the Early Israelites Come From?

By Anson F. Rainey
045 Before they settled in the hill country of Canaan, where did the earliest Israelites come from and what was the nature of their society? The Bible is very clear. They were pastoral nomads who came from east of the Jordan. Much of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008

BAR Excavation in Jerusalem Highlights Summer Seminar

Digs uncover exciting Byzantine and Israelite relics.
By James Fleming
054 The following report was prepared by Jim (Yaakov) Fleming, BAR’s Jerusalem correspondent and Director of BAR’s Summer Seminar in Israel. The first BAR-sponsored excavations took place last summer—appropriately enough—in Jerusalem. Not only...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1979

Arad—An Ancient Israelite Fortress with a Temple to Yahweh

By Miriam AharoniZe’ev HerzogAnson F. Rainey
016 017 The Israelite fortress at Arad is unique in the Land of Israel. It’s the only site excavated with modern archaeological methods that contains a continuous archaeological record from the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1987

Rainey’s Challenge

By Anson F. Rainey
056 In a brilliant piece of detective work entitled “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt,” BAR 16:05, Frank J. Yurco analyzes the reliefs on a wall of the Cour de la Cachette in the Karnak temple in Upper Egypt. But he points to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1991

Let My People Go and Go and Go and Go

Egyptian records support a centuries-long exodus
By Abraham Malamat
062 Nothing in the archaeological record of Egypt directly substantiates the Biblical story of the Exodus. Yet a considerable body of Egyptian material provides such close analogies to the Biblical account that it may, in part, serve as indirect...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1998

How to Pick a Dig

By Dan P. Cole
008 009 This coming summer more people than ever will join archaeological digs in Israel and elsewhere as volunteer workers. Some will be taking an important early step toward a professional...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1979

The Saga of Eliashib

Office files found of commander of fort at Arad
By Anson F. Rainey
036 037 036 Over 20 years ago, I was excavating a room on the south side of the Israelite fortress at Arad—it was the 1964 season—when...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1987

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