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Fake! The Many Facets of the Forger’s Art

By Gusta Lehrer-Jacobson
036 037 In a recent issue of BAR,a London antiquities collector Shlomo Moussaieff bemoans the fact that collectors, among their other difficulties, are the constant prey of fakers. Moussaieff...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1997

Death at Kourion

In the fourth century A.D., a huge earthquake destroyed one of Cyprus’s glittering Greco-Roman cities.
045 046 One of the most devastating earthquakes ever to hit the Mediterranean struck a little after daybreak on July 21, 365 A.D. The fourth-century A.D. Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus...
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2003

How Jewish Was Jesus’ Galilee?

By Mark Chancey
042 043 The pendulum is beginning to swing back again. Before 20th-century archaeologists began uncovering it, Jesus’ Galilee was generally considered rural Jewish terrain. Then archaeologists...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

The Evolution of Two Hebrew Scripts

Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician script was used before Aramaic script was introduced by Jews returning from Babylonia.
By Jonathan P. Siegel
028 In BAR’s version of Superman’s original costume, pictured in “The Hebrew Origins of Superman,” in this issue, Superman the scribe wears the Hebrew letter samekh on his chest. But even people who know how to read modern Hebrew—as it is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1979

Ancient Seafarers Bequeath Unintended Legacy

Rockefeller Museum displays underwater finds
By Osnat Misch-Brandl
040 Underwater archaeology, no longer in its infancy, is rapidly becoming a youth. A current exhibition by the Israel Museum at Jerusalem’s Rockefeller Museum of recent finds recovered from Israel’s coast illustrates this growth. As Israel was an...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1985

Jesus’ Tomb Depicted on a Byzantine Gold Ring from Jerusalem

By Shulamit Eisenstadt
046 In the May/June 1986 BAR, Yaakov Meshorer published for the first time an exquisite gold ring excavated just south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (“Ancient Gold Ring Depicts the Holy Sepulchre,” BAR 12:03). According to Meshorer, the bezel...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1987

The Importance of Dating

By Paul W. Lapp
013 Contacts with history in high school or college have left most of us with something of a distaste for chronology. At least those in the over-thirty generation can hardly have escaped history courses where the instructor concentrated almost...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1977

Gamla: the Masada of the North

012 Gamla has been found. Israelis are calling it the Masada of the north. Masada, south of Jerusalem in the Judean wilderness, was the last Jewish outpost to fall to the Romans thus ending, in 73 A.D., the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. Jews...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1979

Archaeology for the Young of All Ages

An archaeology series for kids teaches adults as well
By Kathe Schwartzberg
002 The Lerner Archaeological Series is written for readers twelve and above, but like many well written books for youngsters, this series can be enjoyable and informative to adults as well. Individual volumes are about 85 pages long and cover a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1978

Dig & Delve

053 Why spend your summer vacation on your hands and knees or crawling up ladders and down into trenches when you could be lounging by the pool, sipping piña coladas? Well, many archaeology enthusiasts imagine unearthing a tarnished coin last...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2002

The Short List: The New Testament Figures Known to History

By Steven FeldmanNancy E. Roth
034 The relatively plain ossuary (bone box) described in the preceding article by André Lemaire is doubly important to the study of early Christianity. It is the earliest archaeological artifact ever found that refers to Jesus; in fact, it is the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2002

Antipas—The Herod Jesus Knew

By Morten Hørning Jensen
042 Herod the Great gets all the press. His son Herod Antipas is known mostly, as the preceding article explains, as the Herod for whom Salome danced and who ordered John the Baptist to be beheaded. Many people mistakenly think it was Herod the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2012

Strata: Who Did It?

Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2017

Ancient Burial Customs Preserved in Jericho Hills

Illegal bedouin digging leads to discovery of enormous cemetery in Judean wilderness.
By Rachel Hachlili
028 It seldom rains in the Judean wilderness; this climatic condition accounts for the preservation of some rare Jewish coffins recently discovered in the hills overlooking Jericho. These coffins are made of wood, are painted, and date to the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1979

Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found at Capernaum

By James F. StrangeHershel Shanks
The first-century Capernaum synagogue in which Jesus preached has probably been found. Because more than one synagogue may have existed in Capernaum at this time, we cannot be sure that this new find was Jesus’ synagogue. But this recently discovered first-century building is certainly a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1983

Biblical Archaeology 101: Dating in the Archaeological World

By David A. Warburton
Dating is one of the most important aspects of the archaeological world. In the first article of a new series called Biblical Archaeology 101, discover the difference between relative and absolute dating, and learn about the many techniques archaeologists use to date sites, people, objects, and historical events.
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2018

Ancient Chorazin Comes Back to Life

A Galilee town is reconstructed from fragments
By Zeev Yeivin
022 “Woe unto you, Chorazin!” So says Jesus of this town in the Galilee (Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13). Chorazin is one of several Galilean towns condemned because they did not repent: “Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you Beth-saida! For if the mighty...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1987

Behold the Temple

Is it depicted on a priestly ossuary?
By Asher Grossberg
046 047 Of the thousands of limestone ossuaries, or bone boxes, found in and around Jerusalem, at least one depicts the facade of the Temple—this from a time when that magnificent structure...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1996

When Palestine Meant Israel

By David Jacobson
043 Most people assume that the name Palestine derives from “Land of the Philistines” (Peleshetin the Hebrew Bible; see Psalms 60:10; Isaiah 14:29, 31), via the Greek Palaistinêand the Latin Palaestina. But there is evidence...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2001

How the Wealthy Lived in Herodian Jerusalem

By Nahman Avigad
001 Since it opened last spring at the Israel Museum, the exhibition of finds from the Jewish Quarter excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem has been drawing large and enthusiastic crowds. And well it should. On display are the exciting results...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

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