Jump to navigation

  • The BAS Library Explore the Library

  • Demo
  • Magazines
  • Collections
  • Videos
  • Notables
  • FAQs
  • Institutions
  • November/December 2019

⇽Go to BAS Home

Home
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Log In
  • My Account
  • Support
  • Explore the Library

  • Demo
  • Magazines
  • Collections
  • Videos
  • Notables
  • FAQs
  • Institutions
  • November/December 2019

Your Filters

  • (-) Remove Synagogues filter Synagogues
  • (-) Remove Authors: Eli Shenhav filter Authors: Eli Shenhav
  • (-) Remove Authors: Eric M. Meyers filter Authors: Eric M. Meyers
  • (-) Remove Authors: Joseph Patrich filter Authors: Joseph Patrich
  • (-) Remove Authors: Steven Fine filter Authors: Steven Fine
Displaying 1 - 20 of 22 results

Did the Synagogue Replace the Temple?

By Steven Fine
018 In 70 C.E. Roman legions destroyed the Jerusalem Temple, Judaism’s holiest structure and the “dwelling place of God’s name.” Despite this loss, Judaism was to survive and prosper. In the following centuries, the synagogue itself came to be...
Bible Review, April 1996

Finders of a Real Lost Ark

American archaeologists find remains of ancient synagogue ark in Galilee
By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
024 When we returned to Nabratein in upper Galilee for our second excavation season in June 1981, we were unaware of a movie called “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” This may be difficult to believe, but it is true. Day by day we excavated in the clear...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1981

Iconoclasm

Who defeated this Jewish art?
By Steven Fine
032 033 The delicate carving on the side of the sarcophagus depicts Zeus, in the guise of a swan, graphically forcing himself on the Spartan queen Leda. The scene is one of the best known in...
Bible Review, October 2000

Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron

By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
032 The Talmud is, after the Bible itself, Judaism’s most significant and revered collection of sacred writings. Although the Talmud was in fact written and compiled between the Second and Fifth centuries A.D., rabbinic tradition holds that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1978

Tales from Tombstones

By Steven FineKalliope I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou
056 Amid the desolate, rocky wasteland of Biblical Zoar, Konstantinos Politis and others have discovered hundreds of remarkable tombstones that preserve detailed portraits of life—and death—among the Christians and Jews who once dwelled there...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012

28 Years Later Couple Recalls Finding “Lost Ark”

By Eric M. MeyersCarol L. Meyers
044 It’s been 28 years since we finished our excavations at Nabratein and we’ve just published our final report, a hefty volume of 472 pages.1 Twenty-eight years may seem like a very long time; but for us, it seems like yesterday. We retain...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2010

Qatzrin—Reconstructing Village Life in Talmudic Times

By Ann KillebrewSteven Fine
044 045 Before 1967, the Golan Heights was, archaeologically speaking, terra incognita. Since then, surveys and excavations have revealed a rich Jewish life there during the third...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1991

“The Nobles of the People Dug It”: Remembering Three Archaeological Giants

By Daniel M. MasterHillel GevaDaniel WarnerDonald D. BinderEric M. MeyersJames Riley Strange
Three significant scholars—who shaped and influenced the field of Biblical archaeology—recently passed away, but their legacies live on. The impact of Lawrence E. Stager, Ephraim Stern, and James F. Strange will be felt for generations to come.
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2018

Yes, They Are

By Eric M. Meyers
046 Hanan Eshel attempts to discredit the identification of mikva’ot at Sepphoris,1 but he also suggests that first-century C.E. Sepphoris, in the time of Jesus, was both a pagan and a Jewish city. This has been the subject of much...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2000

Surprises at Yattir: Unexpected Evidence of Early Christianity

By Hanan EshelJodi MagnessEli Shenhav
032 032 Archaeology is full of surprises. Sometimes we don’t find what we had expected to find. Or we find something we never expected to find. Either way, the experience is always exciting—and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2001

Why Bone Boxes?

Splendor of Herodian Jerusalem reflected in burial practices
By Steven Fine
039 People who hear of it for the first time are always surprised: Ancient Jews practiced secondary burial, gathering into bone boxes called ossuaries the bones of their dead a year or so after death, when the flesh had desiccated and fallen off...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2001

A Temple’s Golden Anniversary

By Peter J. SchertzSteven Fine
Fifty years ago, leading Israeli scholar Michael Avi-Yonah constructed a now-iconic model of the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans. But how accurate is it?
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2016

Hideouts in the Judean Wilderness

Jewish revolutionaries and Christian ascetics sought shelter and protection in cliffside caves
By Joseph Patrich
032 More than three decades have passed since archaeologists and Bedouin prowled the caves of the Judean wilderness in search of ancient manuscripts and other remains. What occasioned this frenzied search was the stunning but accidental finding...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1989

Reconstructing the Magnificent Temple Herod Built

By Joseph Patrich
016 017 “In the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon began to build the House of the Lord” (1 Kings 6:1). Bible scholars call this the First Temple. King Solomon built this Temple on...
Bible Review, October 1988

Strata: Milestones: Thomas (Tom) Kraabel (1934–2016)

By Eric M. Meyers
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2017

ReViews: A Museological Moment

Chronicles of the Land: Archaeology in the Israel Museum Jerusalem
Edited by Michal Dayagi-Mendels and Silvia Rozenberg
Reviewed by Steven Fine
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2011

ReViews: Preserving Tunisian Treasures

Reviewed by Steven Fine
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2010

Reviews

Reviewed by Steven Fine
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2000

ReViews

Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E to 640 C.E.
By Seth Schwartz
Reviewed by Steven Fine
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2004

Yattir, Khirbet

By Avraham EitanJodi MagnessEli Shenhav
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Pages

  • 1
  • 2
  • next ›
  • last »

Search the Library

E.g. 1 Kings 9:28 or 1 Kgs 9:28

Authors

  • (-) Remove Steven Fine filter Steven Fine
  • (-) Remove Eric M. Meyers filter Eric M. Meyers
  • (-) Remove Joseph Patrich filter Joseph Patrich
  • (-) Remove Eli Shenhav filter Eli Shenhav
  • Hershel Shanks Apply Hershel Shanks filter
  • Ronald S. Hendel Apply Ronald S. Hendel filter
  • Jodi Magness Apply Jodi Magness filter
  • Yitzhak Magen Apply Yitzhak Magen filter
  • Anthony J. Saldarini Apply Anthony J. Saldarini filter
  • Ben Witherington III Apply Ben Witherington III filter
  • Carol L. Meyers Apply Carol L. Meyers filter
  • Bernhard W. Anderson Apply Bernhard W. Anderson filter
  • Boaz Zissu Apply Boaz Zissu filter
  • George Howard Apply George Howard filter
  • James A. Sanders Apply James A. Sanders filter
  • Rami Arav Apply Rami Arav filter
  • Robin M. Jensen Apply Robin M. Jensen filter
  • Stephen J. Patterson Apply Stephen J. Patterson filter
  • Yizhar Hirschfeld Apply Yizhar Hirschfeld filter
  • Amos Kloner Apply Amos Kloner filter
  • Benny Arubas Apply Benny Arubas filter
  • Ehud Netzer Apply Ehud Netzer filter
  • Helmut Koester Apply Helmut Koester filter
  • Jacob Milgrom Apply Jacob Milgrom filter
  • James F. Strange Apply James F. Strange filter
  • Jerome Murphy-O’Connor Apply Jerome Murphy-O’Connor filter
  • John J. Collins Apply John J. Collins filter
  • Lawrence H. Schiffman Apply Lawrence H. Schiffman filter
  • Louis H. Feldman Apply Louis H. Feldman filter
  • Mark R. Fairchild Apply Mark R. Fairchild filter
  • Richard A. Freund Apply Richard A. Freund filter
  • Shimon Dar Apply Shimon Dar filter
  • Sidnie White Crawford Apply Sidnie White Crawford filter
  • Vassilios Tzaferis Apply Vassilios Tzaferis filter
  • Victor Hurowitz Apply Victor Hurowitz filter
  • Zeev Yeivin Apply Zeev Yeivin filter
  • Aaron Demsky Apply Aaron Demsky filter
  • Alan R. Millard Apply Alan R. Millard filter
  • Ann Killebrew Apply Ann Killebrew filter
  • Bargil Pixner Apply Bargil Pixner filter
  • Baruch Halpern Apply Baruch Halpern filter
  • Charles A. Kennedy Apply Charles A. Kennedy filter
  • Dan Bahat Apply Dan Bahat filter
  • Danny Syon Apply Danny Syon filter
  • Emanuel Tov Apply Emanuel Tov filter
  • Ephraim Stern Apply Ephraim Stern filter
  • Frank Moore Cross Apply Frank Moore Cross filter
  • Hartmut Stegemann Apply Hartmut Stegemann filter
  • Harvey Minkoff Apply Harvey Minkoff filter
  • Neil Asher Silberman Apply Neil Asher Silberman filter

Publication

  • Biblical Archaeology Review Apply Biblical Archaeology Review filter
  • Bible Review Apply Bible Review filter
  • The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Apply The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land filter
  • Archaeology Odyssey Apply Archaeology Odyssey filter

Content type

  • Feature Article Apply Feature Article filter
  • Review Apply Review filter
  • Book Chapter Apply Book Chapter filter
  • Department Apply Department filter
  • Strata Apply Strata filter

Date

  • 2018 Apply 2018 filter
  • 2017 Apply 2017 filter
  • 2016 Apply 2016 filter
  • 2012 Apply 2012 filter
  • 2011 Apply 2011 filter
  • 2010 Apply 2010 filter
  • 2008 Apply 2008 filter
  • 2004 Apply 2004 filter
  • 2001 Apply 2001 filter
  • 2000 Apply 2000 filter
  • 1998 Apply 1998 filter
  • 1996 Apply 1996 filter
  • 1991 Apply 1991 filter
  • 1989 Apply 1989 filter
  • 1988 Apply 1988 filter
  • 1981 Apply 1981 filter
  • 1978 Apply 1978 filter

Information

  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Customer Service
  • Donate
  • Press Room
  • Masthead
  • Contact Us
  • Employment
  • Site Map
  • Terms of Use
  • Links
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright

Publications

  • Biblical Archaeology Review
  • Bible History Daily
  • Archaeology Odyssey
  • Subscribe to BAR
  • Bible Review
  • Free E-Books
  • Give a gift subscription
  • Manage your subscription
  • Order back issues
  • Subscriber alert

Biblical Archaeology Society Network Links

  • Network Home
  • Events
  • Bible History Daily
  • Donate
  • Biblical Archaeology Review
  • Current Archaeological Digs
  • BAS Library
  • BAS Store