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Everything You Ever Knew About Jerusalem Is Wrong (Well, Almost)
To say that you should throw out all your books on the archaeology of Jerusalem would be going too far, especially since I wrote two of them.1 But it is true that books on the archaeology of Jerusalem, including my own, now contain a lot of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
Who Lies Here?
Jordan tombs match those at Qumran
Not whodunit but whoisit? The mystery deepens. I mean the mystery of the cemetery at Qumran with its 1,200 graves. Who was buried there? The conventional wisdom is that it was the Essenes. The reasoning goes like this: Sectarian manuscripts...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999
I Climbed Warren’s Shaft (But Joab Never Did)
Dangling on a rope ladder in a subterranean shaft, 30 feet below the City of David, the oldest part of Jerusalem, and 45 feet above the bottom of the shaft, I wondered whether I was being foolhardy. At 69, should I really be trying to re-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
A Mickey Mouse Operation
Annual Meeting convenes in Disney World
Query: Why is Disney World like Kansas City? Answer: Both proved hopelessly inept and inadequate in hosting the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).a It will be a long time...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1999
Come to the Annual (Additional) Meeting
For several years, we at the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) have been organizing sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Our sessions have been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999
Biran at Ninety
The excavator of Dan recalls growing up in pre-state Israel, great archaeologists he’s known and why he’s a Biblical archaeologist
On October 23, 1999, Avraham Biran, director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, will celebrate his 90th birthday. He will also...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999
Bringing Collectors (and Their Collections) Out of Hiding
At the end of the late Nahman Avigad’s magisterial Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Sealsa appear a number of indices and lists that are not only helpful to scholars but also interesting to thumb through at odd moments. Leafing through the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1999
God as Divine Kinsman
What covenant meant in ancient Israel
The covenant between God and the people of Israel “must be understood on the basis of political and judicial categories,” declares the highly regarded HarperCollins Bible Dictionary.1 Well, yes and no. In a groundbreaking...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1999
“Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah”
But who gets the last word?
A brief aside in the prophet’s book opens up a world of multiple authors, editors and textual strands within the Bible and provides a portrait of both Jeremiah and his faithful scribe.
Bible Review, October 1999
Geza The Jew
Cats can have nine lives, not people. But the case of Dead Sea Scroll specialist Geza Vermes will make you wonder. His remarkable life is now encapsulated in an autobiography, reviewed herein.
Bible Review, June 1999
David’s general may have infiltrated Jerusalem via the water tunnels, after all
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1990
(In other words, don’t collect)
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1999
Bible Books
Bible Review, April 1999
Editors’ Page: Why Buy Looted Antiquities?
To ransom them for posterity
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 1999