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Book Excerpt: The Shapira Affair

By John M. Allegro
013 The late 1880’s in Jerusalem was an age of discovery. On the one hand, textual critics, anthropologists, geologists, and philosophers combined to pour scorn and derision on Scriptural traditions; on the other, archaeology was never so popular...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1979

Digging in the City of David

Jerusalem’s new archaeological project yields first season’s results
By Yigal ShilohMendel Kaplan
036 037 Our first season of excavations in the City of David—the site of Biblical Jerusalem—ended with rich rewards and high expectations. The City of David, in geographical terms, is only a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1979

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

Answers at Lachish

Sennacherib’s destruction of Lachish identified; dispute over a century’s difference in Israelite pottery dating resolved by new excavations; stamp impressions of Judean kings finally dated.
By David Ussishkin
016 Lachish was one of the most important cities of the Biblical era in the Holy Land. The impressive mound, named Tel Lachish in Hebrew or Tell ed-Duweir in Arabic, is situated about 25 miles southwest of Jerusalem in the Judean hills. Once a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1979

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