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"Put Your Hand Under My Thigh"—The Patriarchal Oath

By R. David Freedman
003 In Genesis 24:2–9 Abraham has his servant Eliezer put his hand under the Patriarch’s thigh to swear “by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth” that the servant will not arrange a marriage for Abraham’s son Isaac...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976

Clothes Maketh the Man—An Insight from Ancient Ugarit

By Stan Rummel
006 King Saul had his problems with young David, but this did not prevent an unusually close relationship from developing between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. Indeed, the Bible reports that Jonathan “made a covenant with David,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976

Oldest Hebrew Letters Found Near Tel Aviv

006 A clay tablet containing 80 Hebrew letters arranged in five lines has been found in an excavation outside Tel Aviv at Izbet Sarte. The letters appear to date from about the end of the 11th century B.C.—the time of Saul and David. If...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

Opportunities for Volunteers

038 Opportunities for volunteers on archaeological excavations next summer are numerous and varied. A new American excavation will sink its spades into a virgin Tell Halif—and is seeking 30 to 40 volunteers. Under the guidance of former...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

Hezekiah's Tunnel Re-Opens

009 A tunnel 1750 feet long constructed by King Hezekiah to protect the water supply of Jerusalem from the Assyrians during Sennacherib’s siege of 701 B.C. has recently re-opened. The remarkable tunnel which winds its way under the City of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976

Found in Jerusalem: Remains of the Babylonian Siege

By Suzanne F. Singer
007 On the last day of his 1975 season Professor Nachman Avigad of Hebrew University, digging in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, discovered four arrowheads buried in ashes at the base of a massive stone defense tower. The tower...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

Danaans and Danites—Were the Hebrews Greek?

037 Cyrus Gordon—the brilliant, maverick scholar—has spent a significant part of his professional life searching for connections between the early Greeks and Hebrews. His most popular effort in this area is a book entitled The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976

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

The Differences Between Israelite Culture and the Other Major Cultures of the Ancient Near East

By Morton Smith
031 The easiest and most common approach to the question of the relation between the culture of the Israelites as compared with other peoples of the Near East is to point out particular similarities between details of the Old Testament and of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1976

A Temple at Dor

023 Again the telephone rang. An antiquities dealer was calling the professor. From previous calls, Professor Nachman Avigad of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem knew the antiquities dealer. The two men had come to like and trust each other...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1976

The Promise of Ebla

041 “I agree with practically every point you make,” Ebla excavator Paolo Matthiae told BAR editor Hershel Shanks, referring to the September BAR article (Queries & Comments, BAR 02:03) cautioning against sensationalizing the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

Kathleen Kenyon Replies to the "BAR"

By Kathleen Kenyon
012 As reported in the December issue of the BAR (Queries & Comments, BAR 01:04), at the time we went to press with that issue, we had received no reply from Kathleen Kenyon to the articles in our September issue (“Kathleen Kenyon...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

Israelite Conquest or Settlement? New Light from Tell Masos

By Aharon Kempinski
One of the most vexed problems of Biblical history and archaeology concerns the nature of the Israelite occupation of Canaan. With the occupation, Israel became a nation and at that time its national history begins. However, the Bible itself reflects at least two views of this beginning.
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1976

Hezekiah's Tunnel Re-Opens

Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976
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