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Is It or Isn’t It—A Synagogue?

Archaeologists disagree over buildings at Jericho and Migdal
By Hershel Shanks
051 Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer claims he has found the oldest synagogue building in the Biblical Land of Israel, near Jericho. Not everyone agrees that it’s a synagogue, however. Meanwhile, Italian excavators Virgilio Corbo and Stanislao...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2001

Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found at Capernaum

By James F. StrangeHershel Shanks
The first-century Capernaum synagogue in which Jesus preached has probably been found. Because more than one synagogue may have existed in Capernaum at this time, we cannot be sure that this new find was Jesus’ synagogue. But this recently discovered first-century building is certainly a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1983

Synagogue Excavation Reveals Stunning Mosaic of Zodiac and Torah Ark

By Hershel Shanks
032 For two seasons in 1961 and 1962 (the second season lasted eight days into 1963) Moshe Dothan, then Deputy Director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities and Museums, directed the excavation of an ancient synagogue at a site known as...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1984

Sacrilegious Neglect

By Hershel Shanks
041 Jerusalem boasts a new multimillion-dollar archaeological park. We recently reviewed a beautiful new guidebook devoted to this popular park.a Yet steps away from the path prescribed in this guidebook, in the heart of the City of David, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2000

Holy Targets: Joseph’s Tomb Is Just the Latest

By Hershel Shanks
019 Shortly after a raging mob demolished the traditional site of Joseph’s tomb near ancient Shechem, first dismantling it stone by stone and then setting it aflame, a newspaper reporter called me for comment. Like most people, I was sickened by...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2001

Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?

Italian archaeologists believe they have uncovered St. Peter’s home
By James F. StrangeHershel Shanks
026 Italian archaeologists claim to have discovered the house were Jesus stayed in Capernaum. Proof positive is still lacking and may never be found, but all signs point to the likelihood that the house of St. Peter where Jesus stayed, near...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

BAR Exclusive! Major New Excavation Planned for Mary Magdalene’s Hometown

By Hershel Shanks
052 A major new excavation is being planned for the hometown of one of the most significant figures in the life of Jesus. Often referred to simply as the Magdalene, Mary Magdalene came from Magdala, an important fishing community on the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2007

Is Withholding Pictures of Archaeological Finds Justifiable?

BAR lauds Avigad's scholarship but finds his refusal to release pictures indefensible
By Hershel Shanks
030 We are delighted to report that Professor Nachman Avigad has published in a recent issue of the Israel Exploration Journal a report and picture of the “Justinian” inscription which he found in the Old City of Jerusalem...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1978

Ferment in Byzantine Studies

By Hershel Shanks
066 For more than 50 years, Dumbarton Oaks, the prestigious Byzantine study center in Washington, D.C. run by Harvard University, has held an annual conference of Byzantine scholars from all over the world. This year’s conference,a for the first...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1995

Peace, Politics and Archaeology

By Hershel Shanks
050 The Middle East “peace process”—may it be thy will, O Lord—has raised two thorny archaeological issues. Both have recently been in the news. The first concerns archaeological finds recovered in territories taken in war and later ceded—or to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1994

“Annual Miracle” Visits Philadelphia

Historical Jesus and Jewish roots of Christianity draw overflow audiences
By Hershel Shanks
052 If it were up to me, I would change the name of the Annual Meeting (the joint annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Academy of Religion and the American Schools of Oriental Research [ASOR]) to the Annual Miracle...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1996

What Happened to the Cult Figurines? Israelite Religion Purified After the Exile

By Ephraim Stern
022 Accidental discoveries of two pits containing cult figurines have led me to discern an extraordinary development in Israelite religious observance. This development occurred when the Jews returned from the Babylonian Exile in the sixth to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1989

Golden Anniversary of the Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
063 There, on a moonlit night beside the ruins of Qumran, was the voice of Yigael Yadin, Israel’s most illustrious archaeologist, dead these 13 years, reading in the original language from a letter by Shimon bar Kosiba, better known as Bar-Kokhba...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

Archaeological Encyclopedia for the 90s

By Hershel Shanks
058 The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Ephraim Stern, editor (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Carta; New York:...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1993

Masada—The Final Reports

By Hershel Shanks
058 059 Masada: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963–1965, Final Reports (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989–1995,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

After Hadrian’s Banishment: Jews in Christian Jerusalem

By Hershel Shanks
027 This article has been adapted by BAR editor Hershel Shanks from a lengthy scholarly study by Professors Yoram Tsafrir and Leah di Segni of Hebrew University in Liber Annuus, published by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.1 This...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2014

Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (and Wrongs)

By Hershel Shanks
035 On Sunday, January 16, I interviewed Zahi Hawass in his office in Zamalek, the elegant Cairene island in the Nile and home of the Gezira Sports Club, from which Hawass commanded an army of 32,000 employees as secretary general of the Supreme...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2011

Yes, Virginia, There IS an American Biblical Archaeology Museum

(Hint: It’s in Brooklyn)
By Hershel Shanks
047 I have often lamented that, although there are thousands of museums in the United States devoted to every conceivable topic, there is not a single museum here devoted to Biblical archaeology. I have recently been challenged on this assertion—...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2004

Is It Possible to Protect Our Cultural Heritage?

By Hershel Shanks
064 We all condemn looting. But there is little talk about what can effectively be done about it. Telling people not to buy what may be looted antiquities makes the authorities feel good but has virtually no effect on looting. In the September...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2015

Ein Gedi’s Archaeological Riches

By Hershel Shanks
058 I have visited Ein Gedi, the oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea, a number of times. But not until I looked at this volume did I appreciate its rich variety of archaeological treasures. Most tourists who stop here come for the natural...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2008

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