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The Shechem Temple

Where Abimelech Massacred a Thousand
By Lawrence E. Stager
026 026 In the time of Abimelech, a powerful warrior in early Israel, great events occurred in a fortified temple in Shechem. I believe that temple was found in an excavation at Shechem more...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2003

Jerusalem as Eden

By Lawrence E. Stager
036 For ancient Israel, the Temple of Solomon—indeed, the Temple Mount and all Jerusalem—was a symbol as well as a reality, a mythopoeic realization of heaven on earth, Paradise, the Garden of Eden. After King David’s conquest of Jerusalem, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2000

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

Will the Real Josephus Please Stand Up?

By Steve Mason
058 What went through the mind of Flavius Josephus as he stepped through his doorway into the brilliant sunshine of the Roman summer in 75 C.E.? Now 38 years old, he was beginning to write The Jewish War—a history of the First Jewish...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1997

Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?

By Lawrence E. Stager
026 027 This is part II of a three-part article. Part I appeared in the last issue (“When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02). Part III will appear in the next issue (“...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1991

The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction

By Lawrence E. Stager
056 In 586 B.C.E. Nebuchadrezzar (also known as Nebuchadnezzar II), king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and burned the city. This of course is the focal point of the Biblical story. For Nebuchadrezzar, however, Jerusalem was...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1996

O Little Town of…Nazareth?

By Steve Mason
033 032 Where was Jesus born? In Bethlehem, of course, in a manger, because there was no room for Joseph and Mary at the local inn. That’s what all the Christmas carols say. And that’s what the...
Bible Review, February 2000

When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon

By Lawrence E. Stager
024 025 Ashkelon. The summer of 1990. The sixth season of the Leon Levy Expedition, sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum. In the waning days of the season, on the outskirts of the Canaanite...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1991

Did the Essenes Write the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Don’t Rely on Josephus
By Steve Mason
061 The vast majority of Dead Sea Scroll scholars are committed to the so-called Essene hypothesis—the belief that the scrolls (or at least those scrolls regarded as “sectarian”) were written by the Essenes, an exotic Jewish movement described at...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008

The Song of Deborah—Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not

By Lawrence E. Stager
051 The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) is one of the most powerful pieces of poetry in the entire Bible. A prose version repeats the same story, with many variations, in Judges 4. The account tells of the deliverer (Judge) Deborah and her reluctant...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1989

Biblical Views: Judaism—Back to Basics

By Steve Mason
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2009

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

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

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Bible Review, August 1992

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