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“God Knows Their Names”
Mass Christian grave revealed in Jerusalem
How many thousands of Christians were massacred when the Persians conquered Jerusalem in 614 C.E. is unknown, but if surviving historical records are at all reliable, the number was huge. We now have the first archaeological evidence that may...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1996
Triple Play
The many lives of Jerusalem’s building blocks
This is an article for people who like puzzles. Not crossword puzzles, but stone puzzles: The challenge is to figure out what the stones were used for—not once, but at three different...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2002
Nebi Samwil
Where Samuel Crowned Israel’s First King
On Tuesday morning, June 7, 1099, the knights of the First Crusade caught their first glimpse of Jerusalem—from a height near the campsite where they had spent the night. The Crusaders called the hill Mons Gaudii—Mount Joy, or Montjoie in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2008
Ancient Israel’s Stone Age
Purity in Second Temple times
In the decades before the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 C.E., Jews gave a new and heightened emphasis to ritual purity. In fact, purity laws may have been interpreted more strictly at this time than at any point before—...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1998
Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones
A Samaritan temple to the Lord on Mt. Gerizim
According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, the Samaritan leader Sanballat promised to build a temple on Gerizim, the Samaritan’s holy mountain, in imitation of the Jerusalem temple. This, Josephus tells us, occurred at the time of Alexander the Great’s conquest of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2010
The Great Mikveh Debate
In a letter to the editor in Queries...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1993
They Are Ritual Baths
Immerse yourself in the ongoing Sepphoris mikveh debate
Scholars have been arguing for some time about the purpose of several plaster-clad stepped pools in the ancient Galilean...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002
Inn of the Good Samaritan Becomes a Museum
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?” the man of the law asks Jesus. “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” And he answered: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2012
Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes
Very few of the hundreds of people who walk through the pages of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament have been attested in archaeological finds.a Now, to that small list, we may add, in all probability, the high priest who presided at...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1992
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Warren’s Shaft theory of David’s conquest shattered
We thought we understood the complicated waterworks beneath the area of Jerusalem known as the City of David, the oldest part of the city. But new excavations near the Gihon Spring will...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1999
Martyrius: Lavish Living for Monks
Four miles east of Jerusalem on a hilltop in the Judean desert on the road to Jericho sits Ma‘ale Adummim, a modern city of over 20 thousand people. In its midst is one of the largest, most important and most elaborate ancient monasteries in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1995
Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found at Capernaum
The first-century Capernaum synagogue in which Jesus preached has probably been found. Because more than one synagogue may have existed in Capernaum at this time, we cannot be sure that this new find was Jesus’ synagogue. But this recently discovered first-century building is certainly a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1983
Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?
Italian archaeologists believe they have uncovered St. Peter’s home
Italian archaeologists claim to have discovered the house were Jesus stayed in Capernaum. Proof positive is still lacking and may never be found, but all signs point to the likelihood that the house of St. Peter where Jesus stayed, near...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982
Many scholars agree on the odd symbols found over the years: they represent the human imprint left by Jewish Christians. But some others like Biblical minimalists question whether the unusual strokes of a seemingly Latin cross aren’t merely remnants from a painter cleaning his brush. Professor Strange will enlighten you with stories and images from many sites in and around Jerusalem, stressing the importance of archaeological methodology to come to a reasonable conclusion of what has been found.
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An update to Vol. 2, pp. 698–804.
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008
Books in Brief
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986
ReViews: Temple Mount, the “Sacred Esplanade”
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2010
ReViews
The Cave of John the Baptist: The Stunning Archaeological Discovery That Has Redefined Christian History
Shimon Gibson
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2005