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Bad Timing

What time is it when the Qumran sundial reads 15 o’clock? Time to get a new theory.
By Abraham Levy
A recent issue of BAR contained a picture of a supposed sundial found more than 40 years ago in the excavations of Père Roland de Vaux at Qumran, the famous site near where the Dead Sea...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1998

From Storm God to Abstract Being

How the deity became more distant from Exodus to Deuteronomy
By Victor Hurowitz
A spectacular sound and light show greeted the Israelites when the new nation encountered God for the first time at Mt. Sinai.1 The awesome display of divine presence and power so terrified the Children of Israel that they begged God not to...
Bible Review, October 1998

Backward Glance: Painting the Past: The Lithographs of David Roberts

By Katharine Eugenia Jones
David Roberts was no archaeologist. But, thanks to his scores of lithographs of the Holy Land, he may have done more to popularize ancient sites in the Near East than anyone else in the 19th century. Roberts was an artist who lived before...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1998

It Is There: Ancient Texts Prove It

By Nadav Naʼaman
With unqualified certainty, Margreet Steiner asserts that in the Late Bronze Age (1550–1150 B.C.E.), the period just before the Israelite settlement, there was “no … town, let alone a city” of Jerusalem. As far as the archaeological record is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1998