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Back to Megiddo
A new expedition will explore the jewel in the crown of Canaan/Israel
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006
Biblical Views: Yahweh as Achilles
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008
Biblical Views: Of Philistines and Phalluses
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008
Biblical Views: The Archaeology of Rahab
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007
Biblical Views: Who Did Cain Marry?
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2013
Biblical Views: The Bible Divide
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012
ReViews
Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations
Timothy P. Harrison
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2005
An update to Vol. 3, pp. 1003–1024.
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008