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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

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

The Many Masters of Dor, Part 2: How Bad Was Ahab?

By Ephraim Stern
018 019 018 Tel Dor, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, is the site of one of the most conquered cities in the Levant. Although practically...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1993

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

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

Buried Treasure: The Silver Hoard from Dor

By Ephraim Stern
046 046 At first, our discovery—an unadorned clay jar—seemed deceptively modest. For months we had been excavating an area overlooking the southern harbor of ancient Dor, south of Haifa on...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1998

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

What Happened to the Cult Figurines? Israelite Religion Purified After the Exile

By Ephraim Stern
022 Accidental discoveries of two pits containing cult figurines have led me to discern an extraordinary development in Israelite religious observance. This development occurred when the Jews returned from the Babylonian Exile in the sixth to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1989

Excavations at Tell Mevorakh Are Prelude to Tell Dor Dig

What a daughter site can tell us about its mother
By Ephraim Stern
034 In 1980, the first spade will sink into Tell Dor. As previously announced in BAR (“Yigael Yadin to Head New Excavation,” BAR 04:04), I will direct the field work at the new excavation. In a sense, however, this excavation began several years...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1979

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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