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San Francisco Tremors

Not earthquakes, just academic rumbles
By Hershel Shanks
054 The Bible is the fault line that divides a significant segment of the scholarly world. It is the attitude toward the Bible that underlies the disparate battles, both institutional and substantive, that are being fought as I write. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

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

The Enigma of Qumran

Four archaeologists assess the site
By Hershel Shanks
024 If you want to understand how archaeologists think, how they reason, how they work, how they interpret finds—and why they sometimes disagree—you will enjoy this discussion among four prominent archaeologists who know as much about Qumran and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1998

Banias Dig Reveals King’s Palace

[But which king?]
By John F. WilsonVassilios Tzaferis
054 “Trim the balk!” we cried to the volunteers, encouraging them to clean the sides of their excavation square. As volunteers dig down, they leave the balks standing to preserve the layers of debris deposits. The balks are critical for dating...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1998

Where Is the Tenth Century?

By Hershel Shanks
056 056 Every archaeologist thinks his or her site holds the key to any issue that arises. Perhaps that is one reason why the focus was on Megiddo at the sessions titled “Where Is the Tenth...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

First Person: Even-Handed to a Fault

Not every scholarly position is as good as another
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1998

First Person: A Name in Search of a Story

An Egyptian papyrus reveals an Asiatic slave with a Biblical name—a midwife mentioned in Exodus
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1998

First Person: Rx for ASOR

The archaeologists’ organization can be nursed back to health
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

First Person: General Drori in Command

Does Israeli archaeology need military discipline?
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1998

Bible Books

Reviewed by Susan AckermanJohn A. DarrRonald S. HendelHershel Shanks
Bible Review, August 1998

Editors’ Page: A Bimonthly It Is!

Pushing the envelope
By Hershel Shanks
Archaeology Odyssey, Fall 1998

Editors’ Page: Come Learn with Us

I promise you it will be fun.
By Hershel Shanks
Archaeology Odyssey, Winter 1998

Insight

Why Did Jesus Write on the Ground?
By Hershel Shanks
Bible Review, December 1998

Insight

Does the Bible refer to God as feminine?
By Hershel Shanks
Bible Review, April 1998

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