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Sifting the Temple Mount Dump

Finds from First Temple Period to Modern Times
By Hershel Shanks
When archaeology student Zachi Zweig started to sift through the mountains of dirt that had been dumped into the Kidron Valley by Muslim authorities in charge of the unsupervised...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2005

The Siloam Pool

Where Jesus Cured the Blind Man
By Hershel Shanks
Few places better illustrate the layered history that archaeology uncovers than the little ridge known as the City of David, the oldest inhabited part of Jerusalem. For example, to tell the story of the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus cured the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2005

Roundup of Annual Meetings

There’s Nothing Flat in San Antonio
By Hershel Shanks
The Annual Meetings were held in San Antonio, Texas, this year. They say that you can go outside the city where there are no buildings and the land is so flat that if you take a good pair of binoculars, you can see the back of your head. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2005

The Untouchables: Scholars Fear to Publish Ancient House Shrine

By Hershel Shanks
To encounter ancient Near Eastern religion, one can hardly do better than to begin with the clay model house shrines that appear as early as the third millennium B.C. and continue through the Biblical period. An especially instructive one is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2005

First Person: Duke Professor Calls for Public Pressure Against BAR

But Eric Meyers won’t take on his colleagues.
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2005

First Person: Cites Unseen

Why do some scholars avoid references to BAR?
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2005

First Person: Access Denied

The Israel Antiquities Authority is stonewalling
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2005