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The Interrupted Search for King David’s Palace

By Hershel Shanks
Eilat Mazar was forced to put her excavation of what may be King David’s palace on hold to excavate the collapsing Northern Tower. Her amazing discoveries were worth it.
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2016

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

Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine?

By Bezalel Porten
054 Was the Ark of the Covenant taken from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem during the reign of King Manasseh in the seventh century B.C.E. to an island called Elephantine in the Nile River? Was it housed there in a Jewish temple much like the one...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1995

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

Yigael Yadin 1917–1984

By Hershel Shanks
024 Israel’s most celebrated Biblical archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, died of a heart attack on June 28 at the age of 67. The world of Biblical archaeology has been impoverished. Yadin was struck down at his weekend home in Michmoret on the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1984

Is It or Isn’t It?

King Jehoash Inscription Captivates Archaeological World
By Hershel Shanks
022 Mystery, politics, Biblical implications, gold—a newly surfaced inscription purporting to be by King Jehoash has it all. And it may be a forgery! If authentic, it would be the first royal inscription ever found of an Israelite king. If...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2003

Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

By Hershel Shanks
The famous inscribed ivory pomegranate, which, if authentic, may have been the head of a scepter from Solomon’s Temple, has endured decades of debate. Is the inscription real, or is it a forgery? A meeting between world-class paleographers in the summer of 2015 may have settled the debate.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2016

Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?

By Hershel Shanks
054 In a recent issue of BAR, archaeologists Gabriel Barkay and Amos Kloner described two magnificent burial caves from the First Temple period located just a few hundred yards north of Jerusalem’s old city (“Jerusalem Tombs From the Days of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1987

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

A Short History of BAR

By Hershel Shanks
034 Talk about vision. I certainly had none when I started BAR. It began almost by accident, as an avocation. If I had any fixed notion, it was that it would be a magazine of ideas, not pictures. Excavations in Israel were full of stones, not...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1995

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 Untouchables: Scholars Fear to Publish Ancient House Shrine

By Hershel Shanks
020 To encounter ancient Near Eastern religion, one can hardly do better than to begin with the clay model house shrines that appear as early as the third millennium B.C. and continue through the Biblical period. An especially instructive one is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2005

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

Biran at Ninety

The excavator of Dan recalls growing up in pre-state Israel, great archaeologists he’s known and why he’s a Biblical archaeologist
By Hershel Shanks
030 030 On October 23, 1999, Avraham Biran, director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, will celebrate his 90th birthday. He will also...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999

Report from Jerusalem

By Hershel Shanks
001 What the stock market is to Wall Street and government to Washington, archaeology is to Jerusalem. It is full of archaeological talk and archaeological gossip, of new finds and ideas and speculations. In 1843 the first U.S. Patent...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1977

Celebrating at the Annual Meeting

By Hershel Shanks
026 Two silver anniversaries were celebrated at the Annual Meetinga in Anaheim last November. The first was the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of the Anchor Bible series, celebrated with a dinner honoring editor David...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1990

Dancing in Denver

From one scholarly meeting to another
By Hershel Shanks
036 037 I didn’t realize how big Denver is. I learned when trying to cover three (or four) meetings at the same time last November in two locations in downtown Denver and nearby Boulder...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002

Politics at the City of David

A BAR editorial
By Hershel Shanks
040 The dispute which sporadically disrupted the archaeological excavations in the City of David last summer had nothing to do with archaeology and everything to do with politics. The incident demonstrated that Judaism, like other religions, has...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1981

BAR Interview: Yigal Shiloh—Last Thoughts

By Hershel Shanks
015 For eight seasons Yigal Shiloh directed excavations in Jerusalem—the heart of the Biblical world. And not simply any place in Jerusalem. He dug in the oldest inhabited part of the ancient site, the section known as the City of David, the area...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1988

Dead Sea Scroll Variation on “Show and Tell”—It’s Called “Tell, But No Show”

By Hershel Shanks
018 You’re not going to believe this! Next summer, at the Biblical Archaeology Congress in Jerusalem, Joseph Baumgarten, newly assigned to edit and publish the coveted Damascus Documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls, will, after more than 35 years,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1990

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