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Reconstructing Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem

By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
023 Herod the Great—master builder! Despite his crimes and excesses, no one can doubt his prowess as a builder. One of his most imposing achievements was in Jerusalem. To feed his passion for grandeur, to immortalize his name and to attempt to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1989

Herod’s Temple in East Anglia

By Kathleen Ritmeyer
063 There it is in the heart of the British countryside I of East Anglia: the largest, the most detailed and the most accurate model of Jerusalem’s Second Temple ever built. Breathtakingly beautiful, the model is difficult to equate with its...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1993

Reconstructing the Triple Gate

By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
049 Reconstructing the Triple Gate required that we answer three principal questions. What was the gate’s original width? Was it originally a double gate or a triple gate? For whom was it built? The discovery of a vault in front of the Triple...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1989

A Pilgrim’s Journey

By Kathleen Ritmeyer
043 Jerusalem is bathed in the clear light of early morning. A pilgrim has come for one of the great festivals, and his journey is almost over. He begins the ascent from the Siloam Pool at the bottom part of the Lower City. The sun is not yet...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1989

Potter’s Field or High Priest’s Tomb?

By Leen RitmeyerKathleen Ritmeyer
022 024 About a half mile south of the Old City of Jerusalem—at the southeast end of the Hinnom Valley, near where it joins the Kidron Valley east of the city—is one of the most impressive,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1994

Searching for Roman Jerusalem

By Hillel Geva
034 The Romans destroyed Jerusalem at the end of the summer of 70 C.E. Under the command of the Roman general Titus, they burned the city and dismantled the Temple, thus ending the First Jewish Revolt (66—70 C.E.)—the so-called Great Jewish...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

A View from the Caves

Who put the scrolls in there?
By Sidnie White Crawford
030 The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 11 caves in the Judean Desert near a site known as Khirbet Qumran, or the ruins of Qumran. Père Roland de Vaux of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française, who excavated the site in the 1950s,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2011

Esther Not Judith

Why one made it and the other didn’t
By Sidnie White Crawford
022023 Brave, wise and stunningly beautiful, Esther and Judith have much in common. Both Jewish heroines live under foreign domination. Both risk their lives to save their people from...
Bible Review, February 2002

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Frank Moore CrossEmanuel TovSidnie White CrawfordMartin Abegg, Jr.
038 In this issue four prominent scholars tell BAR readers how the scrolls changed their lives. Harvard’s Frank Cross is the doyen of Dead Sea Scroll scholars; his views come in an interview with BAR editor Hershel Shanks. In the pages that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2007

Searching for Herod’s Tomb

Somewhere in the desert palace-fortress at Herodium, Palestine’s master builder was buried
By Ehud Netzer
031 Dedicated to the memory of David Rosenfeld.a I had no idea of searching for Herod’s tomb when I began my archaeological work at Herodium. But I confess it has now become something of a minor obsession with me. Whether I will eventually...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1983

In Search of Herod’s Tomb

By Ehud Netzer
Josephus tells us that the site of Herodium was the final resting place of the skilled builder and hated king Herod the Great, but Josephus failed to identify the exact location of the tomb. For 35 years, Herod’s tomb eluded archaeologist Ehud Netzer. Finally in 2007 a ruined mausoleum and a smashed sarcophagus were uncovered, providing the long-sought answer. But excavations at Herod’s magnificent eponymous desert retreat have now revealed much more, including a royal theater box with colorful paintings.
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2011

ReViews: Temple Mount, the “Sacred Esplanade”

Reviewed by James F. Strange
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2010

Debate: Where Was Herod’s Temple to Augustus?

Three sites vie for contention
By Andrea M. BerlinJ. Andrew OvermanJack OliveMichael NelsonEhud Netzer
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

Another View: Small City, Few People

By Hillel Geva
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

ReViews: The Buildings of Herod

The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder
Ehud Netzer
The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder
Reviewed by Hillel Geva
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008

Jerusalem

An update to Vol. 2, pp. 698–804.
By Eilat MazarRonny ReichEli ShukronYa‘akov BilligDan BahatHillel GevaYuval BaruchGiora ParnosAmos KlonerBoaz ZissuJon SeligmanIrina ZilberbodBenny ArubasHaim GoldfusRina AvnerElena Kogan-ZehaviDavid AmitGideon Avni
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Bible Books

Reviewed by Sidnie White CrawfordRonald S. HendelAnthony J. Saldarini
Bible Review, December 1998

Expeditions

Jerusalem’s Russian Compound
By Kathleen RitmeyerLeen Ritmeyer
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2002

Books in Brief

Reviewed by James F. StrangeNeil Asher SilbermanRobert A. WildKeith N. SchovilleJohn J. Collins
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986

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