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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

Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood

Extant “foundation stone” for the Ark of the Covenant is identified
By Asher S. Kaufman
040 041 042 It is almost axiomatic among scholars that no trace of the Jewish Temple is to be found on Jerusalem’s imposing Temple Mount.1 “...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1983

Kaufman Responds to Jacobson

By Asher S. Kaufman
060 My friend David Jacobson is to be congratulated on his two-part article on Herod’s Temple Mount. His overall view of the Mount and his incisive use of comparative architecture are commendable. I am grateful to him for reminding readers about...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2000

Where Was the Capitol in Roman Jerusalem?

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
When Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, the site of what would one day be the Holy Sepulchre Church was an abandoned stone quarry. A catacomb cut into the western side of the quarry attests that the quarry had fallen into disuse. The innermost chamber of the catacomb contains kokhim tombs. These deep recesses into the rock, typical of the first centuries B.C. and A.D., can still be seen behind the Syrian Chapel in the Holy Sepulchre Church today.
Bible Review, December 1997

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

Where Was James Buried?

Making sense of contradictory accounts
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
034 Controversy over the burial of James, the brother of Jesus, is nothing new. As early as the fourth century A.D., the location of James’s tomb was disputed. In the words of the church father Jerome, writing in 392 A.D.: “Some monks think James...
Bible Review, June 2003

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

This Place Is for the Birds

New Testament tower?
By Boaz Zissu
030 Surely one of the most exciting moments in the life of a Biblical archaeologist is finding something that seems to illuminate the Biblical text. The recent discovery of the Siloam Pool where, according to John 9:1–7, Jesus cured a man who had...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2009

Fixing the Site of the Tabernacle at Shiloh

By Asher S. Kaufman
046 In a recent BAR article (January/February 1986), Israel Finkelstein, the director of the important new excavations at Shiloh, reported to BAR readers the exciting results of his efforts. The title of the article, “Shiloh Yields Some, But Not...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1988

The Geography of Faith

Tracing the Via Dolorosa
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
032033 The Latin words Via Dolorosa mean the “Sorrowful Way.” They were first used by the Franciscan Boniface of Ragusa in the second half of the 16th century as the name of the...
Bible Review, December 1996

What Really Happened at Gethsemane?

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
028 029 The scene has stimulated the imagination of great painters. The light of a full moon accentuates the shadows in a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives. A lonely figure prays in...
Bible Review, April 1998

Village Razed, Rebel Beheaded

How Hadrian Suppressed the Second Jewish Revolt at Horvat ‘Ethri
By Boaz Zissu
032 033 The second–third-century Roman historian Cassius Dio claimed that the Romans destroyed 985 Jewish villages while suppressing the so-called Bar-Kokhba Revolt, the Second Jewish Revolt. I...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2007

Why Jesus Went Back to Galilee

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
020 021 Why did Jesus go back to preach in Galilee? The question may seem a silly one. After all, he was a native of Nazareth in Galilee, and it was natural that he should preach to his own...
Bible Review, February 1996

ReViews: Temple Mount, the “Sacred Esplanade”

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

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

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

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

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