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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

It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative

By Margreet Steiner
The history of Jerusalem is going to have to be rewritten. As we gradually assimilate the archaeological record, we are finding more and more evidence that calls into question long-held assumptions about the city’s past. This is especially...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1998

Governments-in-Exile

The Judean wilderness as the last bastion of Jewish revolts
By Zeʼev Meshel
That the Judean wilderness was long a place of refuge for Jewish rebels has been well established. I believe it was more than that, however. As history and archaeology will show, these...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 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