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Beasts or Bugs?

Solving the Problem of the Fourth Plague
By Gary A. Rendsburg
019 Blood, frogs, lice, cattle disease, boils … Every spring at the Jewish holiday of Passover, the ten nasties that plagued Egypt are described in the Haggadah, the midrashic retelling of the Exodus from Egypt that is read aloud during the...
Bible Review, April 2003

A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

By Gary A. Rendsburg
The oldest Torah manuscripts survive incomplete and barely legible. But not the scroll sheet acquired recently by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Penned more than a millennium ago, this uniquely preserved parchment represents the oldest complete Torah scroll sheet totally legible by the naked eye. Explore the manuscript’s history and what makes it such a remarkable artifact.
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2019

“You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk”

An archaeological myth destroyed
By Jacob Milgrom
048 One of the oldest prohibitions in the entire Bible is the injunction against boiling a kid in the milk of its mother. It is repeated three times in identical words: “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”a From these words, the...
Bible Review, Fall 1985

Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes

The thousands of individual burials, the several mass burials and the animal burials all demonstrate that these were sacrificial offerings to the gods.
By Lawrence E. StagerJoseph A. Greene
029 The evidence that Phoenicians ritually sacrificed their children comes from four sources. Classical authors and biblical prophets charge the Phoenicians with the practice. Stelae associated with burial urns found at Carthage bear decorations...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2000

“An Enormous Horde Arrayed for Battle”

Locusts in the Book of Joel
By Harold Brodsky
032 033 We call them “acts of God”—the natural disasters over which we have no control. They fill us with fright and awe: fright at the possible human toll, and awe at the enormous force of...
Bible Review, August 1990

Reading David in Genesis

How we know the Torah was written in the tenth century B.C.E.
By Gary A. Rendsburg
020 For the last two hundred years, a central question in biblical studies has been the authorship of the Torah (or Pentateuch). The Age of Enlightenment led scholars to realize that the traditional Jewish and Christian belief in Moses’...
Bible Review, February 2001

Of Hems and Tassels

Rank, authority and holiness were expressed in antiquity by fringes on garments
By Jacob Milgrom
061 In the book of Numbers, the Lord speaks to the Israelites through his servant Moses and commands them to wear tassels (or tsitsit) on the corners of their garments. The tassels must include a blue thread. The Biblical passage reads as...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1983

Unlikely Heroes

Women as Israel
By Gary A. Rendsburg
016 Open your Bible at random and you will notice something striking: Female characters abound. And it’s not simply a lot of women, it’s a lot of strong women. These women are the antithesis of what we might expect from a patriarchal society...
Bible Review, February 2003

Of Fathers, Kings and the Deity

The nested households of ancient Israel
By Philip J. KingLawrence E. Stager
042 042 043 Ancient Israelite society was structured in a way that few of us in modern times experience. Its focus was on family and kin...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002

Buy Low, Sell High: The Marketplace at Ashkelon

By Daniel M. MasterLawrence E. Stager
036 Ashkelon—an ancient city whose name comes from the same root as shekel—was indeed a city of buying and selling. If archaeologists were to design a place to examine the economy of the ancient world, they could hardly pick a better site...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2014

The Song of Deborah—Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not

By Lawrence E. Stager
051 The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) is one of the most powerful pieces of poetry in the entire Bible. A prose version repeats the same story, with many variations, in Judges 4. The account tells of the deliverer (Judge) Deborah and her reluctant...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1989

When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon

By Lawrence E. Stager
024 025 Ashkelon. The summer of 1990. The sixth season of the Leon Levy Expedition, sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum. In the waning days of the season, on the outskirts of the Canaanite...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1991

The Shechem Temple

Where Abimelech Massacred a Thousand
By Lawrence E. Stager
026 026 In the time of Abimelech, a powerful warrior in early Israel, great events occurred in a fortified temple in Shechem. I believe that temple was found in an excavation at Shechem more...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2003

Jerusalem as Eden

By Lawrence E. Stager
036 For ancient Israel, the Temple of Solomon—indeed, the Temple Mount and all Jerusalem—was a symbol as well as a reality, a mythopoeic realization of heaven on earth, Paradise, the Garden of Eden. After King David’s conquest of Jerusalem, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2000

Strata: In Their Own Words

By Gary A. Rendsburg
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2011

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Reviewed by Judith K. ApplegateHarold BrodskyRonald S. HendelGeorge Howard
Bible Review, February 1995

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Reviewed by Baruch HalpernJoseph GutmannHershel ShanksJoseph A. FitzmyerJack T. SandersHarold BrodskySteven FeldmanHugh G. M. Williamson
Bible Review, February 1991

Bible Lands

The Jordan—Symbol of Spiritual Transition
By Harold Brodsky
Bible Review, June 1992

Bible Lands

The Shephelah—guardian of Judea
By Harold Brodsky
Bible Review, Winter 1987

Bible Books

Reviewed by Jacob MilgromElizabeth JohnsonPhilip J. KingAlbert C. Winn
Bible Review, October 1994

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