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The Ark of the Covenant: Where It Stood in Solomon’s Temple

By Leen Ritmeyer
046 047 Four years ago, I wrote an article for BAR in which I identified the original 500-cubit-square Temple Mount.1 By now, this location is well established in the archaeological world,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1996

Excavate King David’s Palace!

By Eilat Mazar
050 052 A careful examination of the Biblical text combined with sometimes unnoticed results of modern archaeological excavations in Jerusalem enable us, I believe, to locate the site of King...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

Royal Gateway to Ancient Jerusalem Uncovered

By Eilat Mazar
038 Dedicated to the memory of Professor Yigal Shiloh. The love and devotion he brought to the discovery of ancient Jerusalem will continue to inspire us for many years to come. For ten years—from 1968 to 1977—the area adjacent to the southern...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1989

Ritmeyer Responds to Jacobson

By Leen Ritmeyer
053 David Jacobson’s theory regarding the shape of Herod’s Temple Mount and the placement of the Temple within it draws heavily on Roman architectural practice. The Romans were particularly fond of symmetrical structures, as Jacobson rightly...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2000

Is This the Prophet Isaiah’s Signature?

By Eilat Mazar
The Ophel excavations at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount have yielded numerous exciting discoveries, including a new Biblical signature. Archaeologist Eilat Mazar reveals what may be a seal impression of the prophet Isaiah—unveiled here for the first time ever—in honor of Hershel Shanks’s retirement as Editor of BAR.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April May/June 2018

Four-Horned Altar Discovered in Judean Hills

By Yoel ElitzurDoron Nir-Zevi
035 We are what the outside world calls “settlers.” We live in the West Bank, but refer to it by its Biblical names, Judea and Samaria. I (Yoel) live in Ophrah, about 10 miles from the ancient site of Shiloh. Ophrah was established in 1975, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2004

Reconstructing Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem

By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
023 Herod the Great—master builder! Despite his crimes and excesses, no one can doubt his prowess as a builder. One of his most imposing achievements was in Jerusalem. To feed his passion for grandeur, to immortalize his name and to attempt to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1989

Locating the Original Temple Mount

By Leen Ritmeyer
024 026 Somewhere on Jerusalem’s majestic Temple Mount—the largest man-made platform in the ancient world, the size of 24 football fields, nearly 145 acres—Herod the Great (37–4 B.C.) built a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1992

Reconstructing the Triple Gate

By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
049 Reconstructing the Triple Gate required that we answer three principal questions. What was the gate’s original width? Was it originally a double gate or a triple gate? For whom was it built? The discovery of a vault in front of the Triple...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1989

Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives

By Ronald S. Hendel
052 053 The search for the historical patriarchs of Genesis has taken some dizzying turns in the last half-century. From the 1940s through the 1960s, scholars proclaimed that the patriarchal...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1995

The Kitchen Debate

Three Scholars Discuss a Major New Book on History and the Bible
By Ronald S. HendelWilliam W. HalloKenneth A. Kitchen
When we received a copy of Kenneth A. Kitchen’s new book, On the Reliability of the Old Testament, we knew that we should review it. Kitchen is one of the world’s leading scholars (he specializes in Egyptology), and the subject matter of the book—how historically accurate is the Bible?—is of central interest to many of our readers. We asked Ronald Hendel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a columnist for our sister magazine, Bible Review, to review it for us.
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2005

Did I Find King David’s Palace?

By Eilat Mazar
016 016 There can be little doubt that King David had a palace. The Bible tells us that Hiram of Tyre (who would later help King Solomon build the Temple) constructed the palace for David: “...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2006

Temple Mount Excavations Unearth the Monastery of the Virgins

By Eilat Mazar
020 020 For ten years, between 1968 and 1978, the area south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem was intensively excavated by archaeologist Benjamin Mazar.1 His many spectacular discoveries...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2004

Achziv Cemeteries: Buried Treasure from Israel’s Phoenician Neighbor

By Eilat Mazar
034 Like so many archaeological projects, the excavation of the Phoenician tombs at Achziv was prompted by looters. In 1941, when Great Britain governed the land of Israel, the Mandatory Department of Antiquities assigned Dr. Immanuel Ben-Dor to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2010

The Wall That Nehemiah Built

By Eilat Mazar
024 Even before Nehemiah came from Babylonia to Jerusalem in the middle of the fifth century B.C.E., he knew that he wanted to rebuild the broken-down walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 1:3). When he arrived, he promptly made his famous night journey...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2009

Biblical Views: Farewell to SBL

Faith and Reason in Biblical Studies

By Ronald S. Hendel
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2010

Expeditions

By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2002

Epistles: How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?

By Ronald S. HendelJan Joosten
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2020

Backward Glance: Divergent Visions of the Holy Land

By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2002

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