Jump to navigation

  • The BAS Library Explore the Library

  • Demo
  • Magazines
  • Collections
  • Videos
  • Notables
  • FAQs
  • Institutions
  • January/February 2020

⇽Go to BAS Home

Home
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Log In
  • My Account
  • Support
  • Explore the Library

  • Demo
  • Magazines
  • Collections
  • Videos
  • Notables
  • FAQs
  • Institutions
  • January/February 2020

Your Filters

  • (-) Remove Dead filter Dead
  • (-) Remove Sea filter Sea
  • (-) Remove Scrolls filter Scrolls
  • (-) Remove Authors: John J. Collins filter Authors: John J. Collins
  • (-) Remove Authors: Harvey Minkoff filter Authors: Harvey Minkoff
  • (-) Remove Authors: Kenneth Atkinson filter Authors: Kenneth Atkinson
  • (-) Remove Authors: Yitzhak Magen filter Authors: Yitzhak Magen
  • (-) Remove Authors: Boaz Zissu filter Authors: Boaz Zissu
Displaying 1 - 19 of 19 results

A Pre-Christian “Son of God” Among the Dead Sea Scrolls

By John J. Collins
034 035 The Dead Sea Scroll Son of God text from Qumran Cave 4 has attracted attention both in scholarly publications and in the press because it contains remarkable parallels to the...
Bible Review, June 1993

The Salome No One Knows

Long-time Ruler of a Prosperous and Peaceful Judea Mentioned in Dead Sea Scrolls
By Kenneth Atkinson
061 When people hear the name Salome, they immediately think of the infamous dancing girl of the Gospels. Herod Antipas—the man Jesus denounced as a “fox”—had married his brother’s wife, Herodias. When John the Baptist denounced this illicit...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2008

Searching for the Better Text

How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them
By Harvey Minkoff
Ancient versions of the Bible are far from error-free. Happily, a better understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of how manuscripts evolved has helped resolve some of the vexing textual problems.
Bible Review, August 1999

Another View: Do Josephus’s Writings Support the “Essene Hypothesis”?

By Kenneth AtkinsonHanan EshelJodi Magness
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2009

The Suffering Servant at Qumran

By John J. Collins
025 Much of the current interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls is stimulated by parallels, real or imagined, between passages in the scrolls and New Testament statements about Jesus. A new text has recently been published that, its editor claims,...
Bible Review, December 1993

Two Dogs, a Goat and a Partridge: An Archaeologist’s Best Friends

By Kenneth Atkinson
042 Modern archaeology has a long history of colorful characters and serendipitous discoveries. Occasionally, the two go hand in hand. Or should I say, paw in paw, for some of the greatest and luckiest finds have resulted from chance discoveries...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1996

Ancient Israel’s Stone Age

Purity in Second Temple times
By Yitzhak Magen
046 In the decades before the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 C.E., Jews gave a new and heightened emphasis to ritual purity. In fact, purity laws may have been interpreted more strictly at this time than at any point before—...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1998

Odd Tomb Out

Has Jerusalem’s Essene cemetery been found?
By Boaz Zissu
050 The mystery deepens. As if the perplexing graves at Qumran were not enough, the same unusual type of tomb has now been discovered in southern Jerusalem. None of these tombs looks remotely like the typical Jerusalem tomb from the same period,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1999

How to Buy a Bible

By Harvey Minkoff
040 To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What...
Bible Review, April 1992

How Bible Translations Differ

By Harvey Minkoff
066 To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BAR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1992

Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones

A Samaritan temple to the Lord on Mt. Gerizim
By Yitzhak Magen
According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, the Samaritan leader Sanballat promised to build a temple on Gerizim, the Samaritan’s holy mountain, in imitation of the Jerusalem temple. This, Josephus tells us, occurred at the time of Alexander the Great’s conquest of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2010

As Simple as ABC

What acrostics in the Bible can demonstrate
By Harvey Minkoff
027 Acrostics are alphabetical texts. Bible scholars disagree on their purpose. Consequently, translations differ. Despite differences in emphasis, Every translator acknowledges that Form and meaning are connected. Given the strictures of...
Bible Review, April 1997

Roman Cult, Jewish Rebels Share Jerusalem Cave Site

By Boaz ZissuEitan KleinRoi PoratBoaz LangfordAmos Frumkin
The Te’omim Cave—on the outskirts of Jerusalem—served as a refuge for Jewish rebels during the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132–136 C.E.) and later as a pagan cultic site in the second–fourth centuries C.E. See why this extraordinary cave was chosen for both of these purposes—and much more.
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2017

Strata: Milestones

By David AmitBoaz Zissu
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2010

Retrieving the World of Ancient Judaism

For the historian of religion, the closing of the canon was an unmitigated disaster, leading to the loss of a rich literature.
By John J. Collins
Bible Review, August 1996

Jewish Monotheism and Christian Theology

By John J. Collins
Aspects of Monotheism
1996

Bible Books

Reviewed by John J. CollinsGeorge HowardStuart S. Miller
Bible Review, February 1988

Books in Brief

Reviewed by James F. StrangeNeil Asher SilbermanRobert A. WildKeith N. SchovilleJohn J. Collins
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986

Jerusalem

An update to Vol. 2, pp. 698–804.
By Eilat MazarRonny ReichEli ShukronYa‘akov BilligDan BahatHillel GevaYuval BaruchGiora ParnosAmos KlonerBoaz ZissuJon SeligmanIrina ZilberbodBenny ArubasHaim GoldfusRina AvnerElena Kogan-ZehaviDavid AmitGideon Avni
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Search the Library

E.g. 1 Kings 9:28 or 1 Kgs 9:28

Authors

  • (-) Remove John J. Collins filter John J. Collins
  • (-) Remove Boaz Zissu filter Boaz Zissu
  • (-) Remove Harvey Minkoff filter Harvey Minkoff
  • (-) Remove Kenneth Atkinson filter Kenneth Atkinson
  • (-) Remove Yitzhak Magen filter Yitzhak Magen
  • Hershel Shanks Apply Hershel Shanks filter
  • James C. VanderKam Apply James C. VanderKam filter
  • Sidnie White Crawford Apply Sidnie White Crawford filter
  • Ronald S. Hendel Apply Ronald S. Hendel filter
  • Anthony J. Saldarini Apply Anthony J. Saldarini filter
  • Hanan Eshel Apply Hanan Eshel filter
  • Frank Moore Cross Apply Frank Moore Cross filter
  • Martin Abegg, Jr. Apply Martin Abegg, Jr. filter
  • Steven Feldman Apply Steven Feldman filter
  • Emanuel Tov Apply Emanuel Tov filter
  • James A. Sanders Apply James A. Sanders filter
  • Jodi Magness Apply Jodi Magness filter
  • Lawrence H. Schiffman Apply Lawrence H. Schiffman filter
  • Ada Yardeni Apply Ada Yardeni filter
  • Elizabeth Johnson Apply Elizabeth Johnson filter
  • James H. Charlesworth Apply James H. Charlesworth filter
  • Joseph A. Fitzmyer Apply Joseph A. Fitzmyer filter
  • Magen Broshi Apply Magen Broshi filter
  • Alan R. Millard Apply Alan R. Millard filter
  • Charlotte Hempel Apply Charlotte Hempel filter
  • George Howard Apply George Howard filter
  • Susan Ackerman Apply Susan Ackerman filter
  • Amy-Jill Levine Apply Amy-Jill Levine filter
  • Ben Witherington III Apply Ben Witherington III filter
  • Birger A. Pearson Apply Birger A. Pearson filter
  • Bruce M. Metzger Apply Bruce M. Metzger filter
  • Dale C. Allison Jr. Apply Dale C. Allison Jr. filter
  • Ehud Netzer Apply Ehud Netzer filter
  • Esther Eshel Apply Esther Eshel filter
  • Eugene Ulrich Apply Eugene Ulrich filter
  • George J. Brooke Apply George J. Brooke filter
  • Hartmut Stegemann Apply Hartmut Stegemann filter
  • Marc Zvi Brettler Apply Marc Zvi Brettler filter
  • Paul W. Lapp Apply Paul W. Lapp filter
  • Peter W. Flint Apply Peter W. Flint filter
  • Rami Arav Apply Rami Arav filter
  • Richard Elliott Friedman Apply Richard Elliott Friedman filter
  • Robert R. Cargill Apply Robert R. Cargill filter
  • Stephen J. Patterson Apply Stephen J. Patterson filter
  • Steve Mason Apply Steve Mason filter
  • Steven Fine Apply Steven Fine filter
  • Weston W. Fields Apply Weston W. Fields filter
  • William G. Dever Apply William G. Dever filter
  • Bruce E. Zuckerman Apply Bruce E. Zuckerman filter
  • Kathe Schwartzberg Apply Kathe Schwartzberg filter

Publication

  • Biblical Archaeology Review Apply Biblical Archaeology Review filter
  • Bible Review Apply Bible Review filter
  • Aspects of Monotheism Apply Aspects of Monotheism filter
  • The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Apply The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land filter

Content type

  • Feature Article Apply Feature Article filter
  • Book Chapter Apply Book Chapter filter
  • Department Apply Department filter
  • Review Apply Review filter
  • Strata Apply Strata filter

Date

  • 2017 Apply 2017 filter
  • 2010 Apply 2010 filter
  • 2009 Apply 2009 filter
  • 2008 Apply 2008 filter
  • 1999 Apply 1999 filter
  • 1998 Apply 1998 filter
  • 1997 Apply 1997 filter
  • 1996 Apply 1996 filter
  • 1993 Apply 1993 filter
  • 1992 Apply 1992 filter
  • 1988 Apply 1988 filter
  • 1986 Apply 1986 filter

Information

  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Customer Service
  • Donate
  • Press Room
  • Masthead
  • Contact Us
  • Employment
  • Site Map
  • Terms of Use
  • Links
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright

Publications

  • Biblical Archaeology Review
  • Bible History Daily
  • Archaeology Odyssey
  • Subscribe to BAR
  • Bible Review
  • Free E-Books
  • Give a gift subscription
  • Manage your subscription
  • Order back issues
  • Subscriber alert

Biblical Archaeology Society Network Links

  • Network Home
  • Events
  • Bible History Daily
  • Donate
  • Biblical Archaeology Review
  • Current Archaeological Digs
  • BAS Library
  • BAS Store