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Cache of Hebrew and Phoenician Inscriptions Found in the Desert

By Suzanne F. Singer
033 Over 100 years ago Edward Palmer explored the Sinai desert and recorded his findings in a still fascinating book entitled The Desert of the Exodus. At a site called by the Arabs Kuntillat, Palmer found some architectural remains which...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

Albright the Beautician Reveals Secrets of Queen Esther's Cosmetic Aids

001 After Esther, ward of Mordecai, entered the harem of the Persian king Ahasuerus, she, along with the other virgins from whom the King would choose his queen, underwent a year’s preparation before being taken to the King. The Bible tells...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

A Life of Albright

By Hershel Shanks
021 Leona Running has written an adoring biography of the dean of Biblical archaeologists, William Foxwell Albright.a Now Professor of Biblical Languages at Andrews University, Dr. Running served as secretary and assistant to the great American...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976

American "Lawrence of Arabia" Dies

016 Wendell Phillips, dead at the age of 54, was surely the world’s richest archaeologist. The “riches” part of his rags-to-riches story resulted from hundred of oil leases which gave him the right to extract and sell the black...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 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

Yohanan Aharoni—The Man and His Work

By Anson F. Rainey
039 Research in the land of the Bible has suffered a heavy loss in the untimely death of Yohanan Aharoni, chairman of the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. To his associates he has bequeathed the task of continuing and summarizing...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

"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

How to Save Money on the New Archaeological Encyclopedia

009 They’re all here. Kenyon, Mazar and Avigad on Jerusalem, Yadin on Hazor, Aharoni on Beer-Sheva, Dever on Gezer, Callaway on Ai, Wright on Shechem, Pritchard on Gibeon, and on and on. With an appropriately ponderous and descriptive title...
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

Rare Bronze Statue of Hadrian Found by Tourist

By Suzanne F. Singer
036 Shortly after major pieces of an extraordinary bronze statue had been dug up illegally by an American tourist, Gideon Foerster of the Israel Department of Antiquities received an urgent call from a former student describing the find. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 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 Death and Burial of St. Peter

By Jack Finegan
Literary tradition is clear that St. Peter was crucified in Rome and was buried at a place called Vatican. Archaeology has confirmed that the Church of St. Peter was built above, and to commemorate, the place of his burial. In the first 11 chapters of Acts, Peter is depicted as the leader of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

Archaeology as a Love Affair

By Paul W. Lapp
023 Archaeology is a love affair between an archaeologist and an ancient ruin. The ruin heap may be a shipwrecked galleon, an isolated stone circle in a vast desert, or the fallen walls of a fortress still uncovered by the sands of time. There...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976

Cache of Hebrew and Phoenician Inscriptions Found in the Desert

Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976
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American Tourist Returns "Hazor" Tablet to Israel After 13 Years

Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1976
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Albright the Beautician Reveals Secrets of Queen Esther's Cosmetic Aids

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