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The Case of the Gilded Staircase

Did the Dead Sea Scroll sect worship the sun?
By Morton Smith
050 Yigael Yadin’s magnificent edition of the Temple Scroll1—the latest-to-be-published and the longest of all the Dead Sea Scrolls—has been available to scholars in Hebrew for over four years and last year became available in a three-volume...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1984

Benjamin Mazar Reminisces

Excavating 50 years ago took courage but little money
By Bill Clark
062 “It was different then,” the archaeologist said. “Today there are institutes and technicians, engineers, directors and subdirectors!” “Back then, we had nothing,” he said. “But it was a wonderful period. A time of life. A time of courage; no...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1984

Why the Moabite Stone Was Blown to Pieces

Ninth-century B.C. inscription adds new dimension to Biblical account of Mesha’s rebellion
By Siegfried H. Horn
050 F. A. Klein was an Anglican minister, born in Alsace, who came to the Holy Land as a medical missionary in the mid-1800s. Although he lived in Jerusalem, he traveled widely on both sides of the Jordan, seeking to relieve pain and win converts...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1986

The Differences Between Israelite Culture and the Other Major Cultures of the Ancient Near East

By Morton Smith
031 The easiest and most common approach to the question of the relation between the culture of the Israelites as compared with other peoples of the Near East is to point out particular similarities between details of the Old Testament and of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September 1976

Edomites Advance into Judah

Israelite defensive fortresses inadequate
By Itzhaq Beit-Arieh
028 Like many peoples mentioned in the Bible but otherwise almost unknown, the Edomites are coming to life through the wonders of archaeology. Ironically, however, some of the most dramatic finds are being excavated in Israel rather than in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1996

New Light on the Edomites

By Itzhaq Beit-Arieh
028 029 Winter is sometimes the best time to dig in Israel’s Negev desert—and sometimes the worst. In summer the heat can be stifling; while in winter, cold windy days at times prevent any...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1988

Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon

By Lawrence E. Stager
034 035 This is part III of a three-part article. Part II appeared in the last issue (“Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?” BAR 17:03). Throughout most of its 5,000-year history,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1991

What We Don't Know About Moses and the Exodus

By Siegfried H. Horn
022 Three recent books deal with the life of Moses and that epoch-making journey we call the Exodus. Although each is different from the other two, a reading of all three impresses one with how little, not how much, we really know. Two of these...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1977

Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control?

Archaeological evidence provides basis for a new analysis
By Lawrence E. StagerSamuel Wolff
030 031 “Tophet” is a Biblical word. It is the name of a place that was on the south side of ancient Jerusalem in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, where the Israelites sacrificed their children by...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1984

Fifteen Years in Sinai

Israeli archeologists discover a new world
By Itzhaq Beit-Arieh
027 028 We were driving south, along the Gulf of Suez, heading for our excavation site when our jeep broke down. Fortunately, it happened on a paved road, before we turned onto the desert track...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1984

The Book Albright Never Finished

All efforts at publication now ended
By Siegfried H. Horn
064 One of the greatest Biblical archaeologists of the 20th century, William Foxwell Albright, left an unfinished book manuscript when he died in 1971. But this is no secret to his friends, students and admirers. BAR readers were told of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1984

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