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“God Knows Their Names”

Mass Christian grave revealed in Jerusalem
By Ronny Reich
026 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
By Ronny ReichYa‘akov Billig
040 041 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
By Yitzhak Magen
036 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
By Yitzhak Magen
046 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
By Yitzhak Magen
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

By Ronny Reich
052 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
By Ronny Reich
050 050 050 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

By Yitzhak Magen
049 “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

By Ronny Reich
038 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
By Ronny ReichEli Shukron
022 022 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

By Yitzhak Magen
038 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

By James F. StrangeHershel Shanks
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
By James F. StrangeHershel Shanks
026 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

The Archaeology of "Jewish Christianity"

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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Jerusalem

An update to Vol. 2, pp. 698–804.
By Eilat MazarRonny ReichEli ShukronYa‘akov BilligDan BahatHillel GevaYuval BaruchGiora ParnosAmos KlonerBoaz ZissuJon SeligmanIrina ZilberbodBenny ArubasHaim GoldfusRina AvnerElena Kogan-ZehaviDavid AmitGideon Avni
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Books in Brief

Reviewed by James F. StrangeNeil Asher SilbermanRobert A. WildKeith N. SchovilleJohn J. Collins
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986

Nebi Samwil

By Yitzhak Magen
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

ReViews: Temple Mount, the “Sacred Esplanade”

Reviewed by James F. Strange
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2010

ReViews

The Cave of John the Baptist: The Stunning Archaeological Discovery That Has Redefined Christian History
Shimon Gibson
Reviewed by James F. Strange
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2005

Deir Qal‘a

By Yitzhak MagenNaftali Aizik
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

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