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Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers

By Hershel Shanks
026 One of the most controversial issues in modern Biblical studies is the increasingly assertive contention that the Bible is essentially useless as a historical source, even for the period of the Israelite united monarchy (tenth century B.C.E...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1997

Ancient Ivory—The Story of Wealth, Decadence and Beauty

By Hershel Shanks
041 The interplay between archaeology and the Bible is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in the subject of ivory. The Bible helps us to understand the archaeological artifacts, and the archaeological artifacts help us to understand the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1985

Where Is the Tenth Century?

By Hershel Shanks
056 056 Every archaeologist thinks his or her site holds the key to any issue that arises. Perhaps that is one reason why the focus was on Megiddo at the sessions titled “Where Is the Tenth...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

Jeremiah’s Scribe and Confidant Speaks from a Hoard of Clay Bullae

By Hershel Shanks
058 Seldom does archaeology come face to face with people actually mentioned in the Bible. When that happens, the discovery takes on a unique immediacy, touched with awe. When a hoard of inscribed Hebrew bullae surfaced on the antiques market and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1987

Yigael Yadin Finds a Bama at Beer-Sheva

By Hershel Shanks
003 On my last visit to Jerusalem, I stopped in to see Yigael Yadin—as I always do. It was a fascinating hour—as it always is. This time, he told me how he found what he believes to be a bamaa destroyed by King Josiah—and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1977

Celebrating at the Annual Meeting

By Hershel Shanks
026 Two silver anniversaries were celebrated at the Annual Meetinga in Anaheim last November. The first was the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of the Anchor Bible series, celebrated with a dinner honoring editor David...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1990

A Tale of Two Meetings

Issue of Antiquities Splits Scholars in Atlanta
By Hershel Shanks
040 041 The decision was unanimous: Antiquities collectors are criminals, responsible for the worldwide scourge of looting. That was the theme of the annual meeting of the American Schools of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2004

Emmaus: Where Christ Appeared

Many sites vie for the honor, but Emmaus-Nicopolis is the leading contender
By Hershel Shanks
040 041 AT DAWN THE TOMB OF JESUS WAS FOUND EMPTY. Later that very day two of the disciples, Cleopas and another unnamed, were walking on the road to Emmaus when Jesus appeared to them, but...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2008

A Tiny Piece of the Puzzle

Six-Letter Inscription Suggests Monumental Building of Hezekiah
By Hershel Shanks
053 Ancient Jerusalem sometimes reveals itself in little bits. In this case, it is a tiny inscription with only six letters preserved. So little remains of ancient Israel in the City of David (the 12-acre...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2009

The Sad Case of Tell Gezer

By Hershel Shanks
030 031 For Gezer there is still time. But not much. The stones are still there, but gradually the walls are deteriorating. Soon they may tumble under the assault of winter rains and summer...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1983

Golden Anniversary of the Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
063 There, on a moonlit night beside the ruins of Qumran, was the voice of Yigael Yadin, Israel’s most illustrious archaeologist, dead these 13 years, reading in the original language from a letter by Shimon bar Kosiba, better known as Bar-Kokhba...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

A “Centrist” at the Center of Controversy

BAR interviews Israel Finkelstein
By Hershel Shanks
038 039 A debate rages among Biblical archaeologists: Was there a United Monarchy under David and Solomon? Should impressive ancient structures throughout Israel be attributed to Solomon or...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2002

Radiocarbon Dating

How To Find Your True Love
By Hershel Shanks
050 050 Are you single and looking for your true love? Someone thought the conference I recently attended at Oxford was the answer: Radiocarbon dating was the way to find the perfect match...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2005

The City of David After Five Years of Digging

Yigal Shiloh releases preliminary report on excavations in oldest inhabited area of Jerusalem
By Hershel Shanks
022 Thirty-one pages is a slim product for five years of excavation—even if it is only a preliminary report. So it has been said of the text of Yigal Shiloh’s reporta on his excavations in the City of David, the oldest inhabited area of Jerusalem...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1985

The Dangers of Dividing Disciplines

By Hershel Shanks
064 I have had a long-standing public disagreement with my friend Bill Dever, one of the United States’ leading archaeologists, concerning the term “Biblical archaeology.” Some years ago Bill argued that Biblical archaeology was not an academic...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1992

The Shrine of the Book—Where Nothing Has Changed

By Hershel Shanks
078 Major developments in nearly every field related to the Dead Sea Scrolls have followed in the wake of their release. Research on the scrolls is burgeoning. Depositories of scroll photographs are doing their best to accommodate the needs of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1993

What About the Jehoash Inscription?

By Hershel Shanks
038 The stone tablet that purports to have been commissioned by Jehoash, the ninth-century B.C.E. king of Judah, raised questions from the start. The first line of the inscription is missing, including the name Jehoash; the top of the plaque is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

Where Is Mount Sinai?

The Case for Har Karkom and the Case for Saudi Arabia
By Hershel Shanks
031 “It may well be that I have done no more than weave, in the words of George Eliot, ‘an ingenious web of probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.’1 Perhaps final truth in archaeology is unattainable,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2014

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

1987 Annual Meeting in Boston: A Wild, Wonderful Academic Circus

By Hershel Shanks
052 There is nothing quite like it—the joint once-a-year sessions of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), known to all as the Annual Meeting. For...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1988

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