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Solomon & Sheba, Inc.

New inscription confirms trade relations between “towns of Judah” and South Arabia
By André Lemaire
055 Southern Arabia is 1,200 miles south of Israel. Naturally, skepticism about the reality of trade between South Arabia and Israel in ancient times seems justified. Yet the Bible documents this trade quite extensively—most famously in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2010

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

Probable Head of Priestly Scepter from Solomon’s Temple Surfaces in Jerusalem

Inscription containing name of God incised on ivory pomegranate
By André Lemaire
024 BAR recently published a fascinating article by Gabriel Barkay reporting on his excavation of a small rolled silver amulet, dating from the seventh or sixth century B.C. When the amulet was unrolled, it was found to contain the tetragrammaton...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1984

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

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

Where Was James Buried?

Making sense of contradictory accounts
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
034 Controversy over the burial of James, the brother of Jesus, is nothing new. As early as the fourth century A.D., the location of James’s tomb was disputed. In the words of the church father Jerome, writing in 392 A.D.: “Some monks think James...
Bible Review, June 2003

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

Weeds & Seeds

What Archaeobotany Can Teach Us
By Ehud WeissMordechai E. Kislev
032 033 Think small. No, think minute! Think something seemingly unimportant, but invaluable. Think seeds and weeds and grains—grown over 2,500 years ago. Our story takes place in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2004

Bethlehem…Of Course

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
041 040 Steve Mason has probably made the best case possible that we should adopt an “agnostic” position regarding the birthplace of Jesus. But although Mason has examined the literary data...
Bible Review, February 2000

Why Doesn’t God Answer Prayers?

How the First Christians Dealt with Divine Silence
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
014 We are told that God hears our prayers. Then why doesn’t he listen? The most consoling words in the New Testament are, “Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7 = Luke 11:9). The...
Bible Review, April 2004

Another Temple to the Israelite God

Aramaic Hoard Documents Life in Fourth Century B.C.
By André Lemaire
038 The scholarly world is abuzz. During at least the past 20 years, and more likely during the last 33 years, more than a thousand potsherds inscribed in Aramaic have come onto the antiquities market. About 800 of these have now been published.1...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2004

What Really Happened at the Transfiguration?

A Literary Critic Deepens Our Understanding
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
0008009 In the Gospel miracle stories, Jesus does wonderful things. But the divine power that he dispenses flows through his person while leaving him untouched. In the Transfiguration episode,...
Bible Review, Fall 1987

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