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A bone flute discovered in the City of David leads to another and elucidates a Talmudic passage
036 A cow’s foreleg with six holes was illustrated in color in “Digging in the City of David,” BAR 05:04. Archaeologists identified the perforated bone as a flute; by blowing into the hollow bone and covering different holes, different notes...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1982

A Bible Scholar Looks at BAR’s Coverage of the Exodus

By Yehuda T. Radday
068 Recent issues of BAR have covered a wide range of views regarding the Israelites’ servitude in Egypt, the parting of the “Red Sea” (the “Reed Sea” in Hebrew), and the route of the Exodus.a The authors were, in the main, archaeologists,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

Mitchell Dahood—In Memoriam

Leading Ebla scholar dies suddenly in Rome
By Hershel Shanks
058 Mitchell Dahood is dead at 60. He died in Rome on March 8 of a sudden, unexpected and massive heart attack. I should write Father Mitchell Dahood, for he was a Roman Catholic priest, a Jesuit, who spent nearly 20 years teaching at Rome’s...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1982

Two Prominent Israeli Scholars Assess One of the Most Controversial Aspects of Biblical History

014 After its sojourn in Egypt, Israel came to Canaan, all agree that by the time the Israelite monarchy was established in its eternal capital Jerusalem, the land was Israel’s. But how did this come about? By what process? The Biblical accounts...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1982

Ebla Scholarship à la Syrienne

BAR reports on Damascus symposium
054 How the ancient history of Syria was “faked” was the subject of a recent symposium held in Damascus. The following article is based on an account of the symposium in the English-language Syria Times. The Damascus symposium focused...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1982

BAR Jr.: "Lachish and Azekah Were the Only Fortified Cities of Judah That Remained" (Jeremiah 34:7)

By Rodney Wright
072 Professor Larry Geraty of Andrews University gave his class in Biblical Archaeology the instructive assignment of writing a BAR Jr. column. In this issue, we print one of the papers submitted in response. Talk about bringing the Bible to life...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

The New King James Version

First revision of classic bible in more than 200 years
062 Not since 1769 has the venerable King James Version of the Bible been revised. This year Nelson Publishers brought the King James Version into the twentieth century with care and reverence for its beloved cadences and familiar archaic...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

In Defense of Hans Goedicke

Washington Journalism Review guilty of irresponsible attack on prominent Johns Hopkins professor
By Hershel Shanks
048 The Washington Journalism Review, supposedly a monitor of media fairness and accuracy, has falsely and irresponsibly accused Professor Hans Goedicke of The Johns Hopkins University of attempting to pull off an academic fraud.a In the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1982

First “Dead Sea Scroll” Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries

Solomon Schechter presages later Essene scholarship
By Raphael Levy
038 Some call it the first Dead Sea Scroll—but it was found in Cairo and not in a cave. It was recovered in 1897 in a Genizah, a synagogue repository for worn-out copies of sacred writings. The gifted scholar who had found it, Solomon Schechter,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1982

In America, Biblical Archaeology Was—And Still Is—Largely a Protestant Affair

Why haven’t American Jews and Catholics participated more in the archaeological enterprise in the Holy Land?
054 “American archaeological efforts in the Holy Land have been dominated by Protestants,” according to a prominent American Protestant archaeologist, Gus Van Beek. Van Beek is curator of Old World archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1982

What Does the Bible Say?

Translations speak in many tongues
By Dewey M. Beegle
056 Bible translations are nothing new. As early as the sixth century B.C. Babylonian Jews may have listened to translations (targums) of the Hebrew Toraha into Aramaic. While Ezra read the Torah to the returned exiles in Jerusalem, the Levites “...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

Essene Origins: Palestine or Babylonia?

Some Essenes may have survived almost 1000 years after Qumran
054 The preceding article described the discovery, 50 years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, of what has been dubbed the “First Dead Sea Scroll.” It was found in Cairo in 1897 and became known to scholars as the Damascus Document...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1982

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 Torah, The Prophets and The Writings—A New Jewish Translation

By Marc Zvi Brettler
063 The publication of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, The Writings (Kethubim), marks the completion of the new Jewish Publication Society Bible translation, abbreviated NJPS.a This is the first Bible translation executed by a panel...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

Caesarea Beneath the Sea

By Robert L. Hohlfelder
042 Of all the great seaports of antiquity, Caesarea Maritima is the only one readily accessible to underwater archaeologists.1 Many ancient ports, like Piraeus, the port of Athens, cannot be carefully examined because they are still in use...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1982

The Dayan Saga—The Man and His Archaeological Collection

By Leroy Aarons
026 Beginning October 14, 1982, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem will exhibit a few selected highlights from the Moshe Dayan collection of antiquities, which the museum recently acquired for $1 million following Dayan’s death a year ago. In this...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1982

John Bright’s New Revision of A History of Israel

By Norman K. Gottwald
056 The following review of the new third edition of John Bright’s A History of Israel was written by Professor Norman K. Gottwald of New York Theological Seminary. Bright’s History has been a dominant influence in Biblical scholarship for...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1982

“Sounding Brass” and Hellenistic Technology

Ancient acoustical device clarifies Paul’s well-known metaphor
By William Harris
038 No New Testament passage is better known than Chapter 13 of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Its singular lyrical felicity and its insistence upon love differentiates it from the often practical and pragmatic side of Paul’s mind. This...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1982

How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities

By Abraham Malamat
024 025 For over 50 years now, a school of thought associated with the names of the great German scholars Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth has espoused a particular view of what is described in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1982

Archaeological Stumpers

Mysterious tomb offerings challenge the imagination
036 BAR readers suggested some imaginative, useful and even humorous functions for the puzzling clay tootsie-rolls that were found at Biblical Lachish (“Mystery Find at Lachish,” BAR 05:05). There is a difference, however, between the Lachish...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1982

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