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Yigael Yadin on “Hazor, the Head of All Those Kingdoms”

By Yigael Yadin
003 The site of Hazor, located in upper Galilee, consists of a 30-acre upper tell, plus an adjacent plateau at a lower level of over 175 acres. The tell, unlike the plateau, was occupied almost continuously from the 27th century B.C. to the 2nd...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1975

II. In Defense of the Stables at Megiddo

By Yigael Yadin
018 After several seasons of excavations at Megiddo, I believe I have proven that the two groups of buildings commonly referred to as “Solomon’s Stables” are not Solomonic but must date to approximately the reign of Ahab.1...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1976

The Temple Menorah—Where Is It?

By Steven Fine
018 What is history and what is myth? What is true and what is legendary? Reporting on his 1996 meeting with Pope John Paul II (1978–2005), Israel’s Minister of Religious Affairs Shimon Shetreet reported, according to the Jerusalem Post,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2005

Biblical Detective Work Identifies the Eunuch

By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
046 In the preceding article Phil King and Larry Stager explain that the Hebrew term ‘ebed, literally “servant,” can designate anything from a slave or household servant to a high royal official, a servant of the king. The same is true in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002

Did the Synagogue Replace the Temple?

By Steven Fine
018 In 70 C.E. Roman legions destroyed the Jerusalem Temple, Judaism’s holiest structure and the “dwelling place of God’s name.” Despite this loss, Judaism was to survive and prosper. In the following centuries, the synagogue itself came to be...
Bible Review, April 1996

A Temple’s Golden Anniversary

By Peter J. SchertzSteven Fine
Fifty years ago, leading Israeli scholar Michael Avi-Yonah constructed a now-iconic model of the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans. But how accurate is it?
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2016

A Major New Introduction to the Bible

Norman Gottwald’s sociological-literary perspective
By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
042 Norman Gottwald is one of North America’s leading biblical scholars, and he has just published a comprehensive introduction to the Hebrew Bible that will soon make his name known to a very wide audience. It is titled The Hebrew Bible—...
Bible Review, Summer 1986

Iconoclasm

Who defeated this Jewish art?
By Steven Fine
032 033 The delicate carving on the side of the sarcophagus depicts Zeus, in the guise of a swan, graphically forcing himself on the Spartan queen Leda. The scene is one of the best known in...
Bible Review, October 2000

The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll

How it affects our understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity
By Yigael Yadin
033 On August 1, 1960, I received a letter from a man who identified himself as a Virginia clergyman. The letter stated that the writer was in a position to negotiate the sale of “important, authentic discoveries of Dead Sea Scrolls.” Obviously,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1984

Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?

By Yigael Yadin
016 017 There are essentially two views of the Israelite occupation of Canaan. The first conforms in its main outlines to the Biblical view; that is, the Israelite occupation was initiated by...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1982

The Religious Reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah

By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
Aspects of Monotheism
1996

Books in Brief

Reviewed by Michael D. CooganP. Kyle McCarter Jr.Morton Smith
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1982

The Origins of Israelite Religion

By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
The Rise of Ancient Israel
1991

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