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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

Cultural Crossroads

Deir el-Balah and the cosmopolitan culture of the Late Bronze Age
By Trude Dothan
After the Six-Day War in 1967, the Old City of Jerusalem became accessible to Israelis for the first time in nearly 20 years. For many who, like me, had grown up in Jerusalem during the British Mandate, when one could travel freely between...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1998