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“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

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

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

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

Did Yahweh Have a Consort?

The new religious inscriptions from the Sinai
By Zeʼev Meshel
024 The book of Kings describes a time during the 9th–7th centuries B.C. when the land was divided into two kingdoms—Judah in the south and Israel in the north. Phoenicia and Israel were linked by commerce and royal marriages and Hebrew...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 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

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

Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron

By Eric M. MeyersCarol 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

The Prophets as Revolutionaries: A Sociopolitical Analysis

By Martin A. Cohen
012 Five Biblical prophets—Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah and Jeremiah—scathingly attacked the sacrificial cult practiced in the shrines of ancient Israel and Judah. These prophets all lived in that turbulent 150-year period that began with the death...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1979

Beer-Sheva Excavator Blasts Yadin—No Bama at Beer-Sheva

By Anson F. Rainey
018 This is in response to your article in the March 1977 issue about alleged bama at Beer-Sheva (“Yigael Yadin Finds a Bama at Beer-Sheva,” BAR 03:01). There is not one scrap of evidence, Biblical or archeological, in favor of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1977

Finders of a Real Lost Ark

American archaeologists find remains of ancient synagogue ark in Galilee
By Eric M. MeyersCarol 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

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