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Solomon’s Blessings

Would museums purchase these good-luck tokens today?
By Hershel Shanks
046 I read an interesting article in a recent issue of the Israel Exploration Journal that intrigued but also saddened me.1 It is about 16 eulogiai (singular, eulogia) inscribed in Greek simply with the name “Solomon.” A ...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2001

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

Three Shekels for the Lord

Ancient inscription records gift to Solomon’s Temple
By Hershel Shanks
028 029 Two extremely important Hebrew inscriptions have recently surfaced on the antiquities market. One appears to be a receipt for a donation of three silver shekels to the Temple of Yahweh...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

Jerusalem Roundup

By Hershel Shanks
From Jerusalem’s earliest inscription to the discovery of Solomon’s fortifications, the city has been abuzz with archaeological activity. Our up-tothe-minute report puts the spotlight on these exciting new finds, as well as the projects and scholars who have brought them to light.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2011

Memorandum Re: Restoring Gezer

This is one of the most impressive archaeological sites in Israel, yet it is rarely visited even by aficionados because it is so difficult to get to—unmarked and neglected.
By Hershel Shanks
066 To: Israel Gilad, Director General, Israel National Parks Authority From: Hershel Shanks, Editor, BAR You are really missing a good bet! You are supporting and financing the excavation and restoration of two important Roman-period sites in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1994

Where Is the Tenth Century?

By Hershel Shanks
056 056 Every archaeologist thinks his or her site holds the key to any issue that arises. Perhaps that is one reason why the focus was on Megiddo at the sessions titled “Where Is the Tenth...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

Was BAR an Accessory to Highway Robbery?

By Hershel Shanks
066 Five years ago, BAR published an extraordinary artifact—an ivory pomegranate less than 2 inches high (1.68 inches, to be exact) that was probably used in the Temple of Solomon, the only artifact from Solomon’s Temple ever discovered (“...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1988

Jerusalem as Eden

By Lawrence E. Stager
036 For ancient Israel, the Temple of Solomon—indeed, the Temple Mount and all Jerusalem—was a symbol as well as a reality, a mythopoeic realization of heaven on earth, Paradise, the Garden of Eden. After King David’s conquest of Jerusalem, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2000

Radiocarbon Dating

How To Find Your True Love
By Hershel Shanks
050 050 Are you single and looking for your true love? Someone thought the conference I recently attended at Oxford was the answer: Radiocarbon dating was the way to find the perfect match...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2005

Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers

By Hershel Shanks
026 One of the most controversial issues in modern Biblical studies is the increasingly assertive contention that the Bible is essentially useless as a historical source, even for the period of the Israelite united monarchy (tenth century B.C.E...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1997

San Francisco Tremors

Not earthquakes, just academic rumbles
By Hershel Shanks
054 The Bible is the fault line that divides a significant segment of the scholarly world. It is the attitude toward the Bible that underlies the disparate battles, both institutional and substantive, that are being fought as I write. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

Sifting the Temple Mount Dump

Finds from First Temple Period to Modern Times
By Hershel Shanks
014 014 When archaeology student Zachi Zweig started to sift through the mountains of dirt that had been dumped into the Kidron Valley by Muslim authorities in charge of the unsupervised...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2005

The Sad Case of Tell Gezer

By Hershel Shanks
030 031 For Gezer there is still time. But not much. The stones are still there, but gradually the walls are deteriorating. Soon they may tumble under the assault of winter rains and summer...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1983

BAR Interviews Amihai Mazar—A New Generation of Israeli Archaeologists Comes of Age

By Hershel Shanks
046 Jerusalem, April 22, 1983 Hershel Shanks: Ami, in the United States no one, or almost no one, has heard of you. You’re one of the younger generation of Israeli archaeologists. And the reason I want to talk to you about yourself and your work...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1984

The Missing Millennium in Jerusalem’s Archaeology

By Hershel Shanks
034 What happened to tenth-century B.C. Jerusalem? This has been the focus of much recent scholarly attention and has engaged BAR readers as well.a The tenth century was the time of the United Monarchy of Israel, the glory days of King David and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2000

Kathleen Kenyon's Anti-Zionist Politics—Does It Affect Her Work?

By Hershel Shanks
003 What is not in doubt is that Kathleen Kenyon is virulently anti-Zionist. The more subtle question is whether this affects her work as an archaeologist. It is not hard to find Israelis who think it does. Others suggest it is only a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1975

New York Times Misrepresents Major Jerusalem Discovery

Unique monumental structure inside Israelite Jerusalem defies explanation
By Hershel Shanks
040 There it was in the headline on page one of what is supposedly the most reliable and accurate newspaper in the country, the prestigious New York Times: “Palace of David or Solomon Believed Found.” The headline writer cannot be faulted...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1981

2,700-Year-Old Tower Found?

By Hershel Shanks
039 Life goes on in Jerusalem. And so does excavation. BAR readers will recall the eighth-century B.C. wall built by King Hezekiah of Judah to protect the city from an attack by Sennacherib of Assyria, which was recently discovered by Ronny Reich...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2000

Prize Find: Oldest Hebrew Inscription Discovered in Israelite Fort on Philistine Border

By Hershel Shanks
051 A little more than a year ago, we reported on a new excavation (directed by the Hebrew University’s Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor) of an imposing Israelite fort on the border with Philistia dating to the late 11th–early tenth century B.C.E...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2010

Wet-Sift the Megiddo Dumps!

Wet-Sifting Is Invaluable for Recovering Small Finds
By Hershel Shanks
053 I’m looking for a clever aphorism saying that good things sometimes come from something bad. I have in mind the Muslim Waqf’s illegal excavation on the Temple Mount to accommodate a new, larger entrance to the underground Marwani mosque...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2013

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