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Back to Megiddo

A new expedition will explore the jewel in the crown of Canaan/Israel
By Israel FinkelsteinDavid Ussishkin
026 028 Tel Megiddo is widely regarded as the most important archaeological site in Israel from Biblical times, and as one of the most significant sites for the study of the ancient Near East...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1994

Raider of the Lost Mountain—An Israeli Archaeologist Looks at the Most Recent Attempt to Locate Mt. Sinai

By Israel Finkelstein
046 In an article entitled “Has Mt. Sinai Been Found?” BAR 11:04, Italian archaeologist and author of the popular, though now out-dated Palestine Before the Hebrews (New York: Knopf, 1963), Emmanuel Anati argues that he has found Mt. Sinai...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1988

Searching for Israelite Origins

By Israel Finkelstein
034 The emergence of Israel in the hill country of Canaan poses some of the most intriguing questions now occupying archaeologists as well as Biblical scholars. The archaeological reflection of the “Israelite settlement”1 is dozens of hill-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1988

Shiloh Yields Some, But Not All, of Its Secrets

Location of Tabernacle still uncertain
By Israel Finkelstein
022 In the first half of the 11th century B.C., Shiloh was one of the most important sites in the central mountain ridge that runs through the Land of Israel. Here was the sacred religious center of the Israelite population of the hill country...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1986

The Iron Age Sites in the Negev Highlands: Military Fortresses or Nomads Settling Down?

By Israel Finkelstein
046 Rudolph Cohen’s redating of some of his “Solomonic fortresses” to the Persian period will not be enough to satisfy many scholars. Some will continue to question the date of the remaining fortresses Cohen dates to the tenth century B.C. But...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986

The Southern Sinai Exodus Route in Ecological Perspective

By Aviram PerevolotskyIsrael Finkelstein
027 Tradition locates quite precisely in southern Sinai a number of places associated with the Israelites’ history: the burning bush where Moses heard God’s call (Exodus 3:2–4), identified with a raspberry plant growing in the yard of St...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1985

Rescue in the Biblical Negev

By Moshe Kochavi
024 As work begins on the infrastructure required to relocate the Israeli army’s bases and training facilities from Sinai to the Negev—in accordance with the Middle East peace agreements—Israel’s archaeological institutions have been mobilized to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1980

An Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges

By Moshe KochaviAaron Demsky
019 One of the most critical battles in early Israelite history was fought about 1050 B.C. between the Israelites and the Philistines. At that time, the Bible tells us, the twelve tribes had settled the land and the Ark of the Covenant had been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1978

Rediscovered! The Land of Geshur

By Moshe KochaviTimothy RennerIra SparEsther Yadin
030 031 Not without some justification did Absalom arrange the murder of his half-brother Amnon. Amnon had raped Absalom’s sister Tamar. Nonetheless, fratricide among King David’s sons was not...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1992

Tripartite Buildings: Divided Structures Divide Scholars

By Moshe Kochavi
044 BAR readers, as well as scholars, have long puzzled over the distinctive tripartite pillared buildings that have been discovered in so many excavations in Israel. Their architecture seems simple enough: long rectangular buildings divided into...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1999

An Alphabet from the Days of the Judges

By Aaron DemskyMoshe Kochavi
023 At a site called Izbet Sartah, now believed by some scholars, to be Biblical Ebenezer, a recent excavation by Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan Universities has uncovered a small clay potsherd—unrelated to the Biblical story—which, however,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1978

Creating Woman

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
How was the first woman created in Genesis 2? Was she made from the man’s rib or, as recently suggested in BAR, from his os baculum (penis bone)?
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2016

Biblical Views: How a People Forms

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

Biblical Views: Yahweh as Achilles

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008

Biblical Views: Of Philistines and Phalluses

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008

Biblical Views: The Archaeology of Rahab

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

Biblical Views: Who Did Cain Marry?

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2013

Biblical Views: The Bible Divide

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012

ReViews

Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations
Timothy P. Harrison
Reviewed by Israel Finkelstein
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2005

Megiddo

An update to Vol. 3, pp. 1003–1024.
By Israel FinkelsteinDavid UssishkinBaruch Halpern
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

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