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Ancient Israel’s Stone Age

Purity in Second Temple times
By Yitzhak Magen
046 In the decades before the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 C.E., Jews gave a new and heightened emphasis to ritual purity. In fact, purity laws may have been interpreted more strictly at this time than at any point before—...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1998

Hadrian’s Legion

Encamped on the Temple Mount
By Eilat Mazar
053 After the Romans destroyed the Temple and burned Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Xth Legion (Fretensis) of the Roman army camped on the southwestern hill of the city, in the area known today as the Citadel, by Jaffa Gate.1 This was not,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2006

The Mysterious Copper Scroll

Clues to hidden temple treasure?
By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
034 035 The Copper Scroll (3Q15 or 3QTreasure) is an anomaly in the inventory of scrolls from Qumran. It does not fit readily into any of the categories customarily included when the scrolls...
Bible Review, August 1992

Colossal Enigmas

The ancient stone temples of Baalbek
By Arthur Segal
050 051 It is unlikely that any archaeological work will be undertaken at Baalbek in the near future. This imposing site lies about 50 miles east-northeast of Beirut (ancient Berytus), between...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2000

The Pomegranate Scepter Head—From the Temple of the Lord or from a Temple of Asherah?

042 In 1988 the Israel Museum paid $550,000 for a small ivory pomegranate in the belief that it was once the head of a scepter that had been used by the priests in Solomon’s Temple.a In so doing, the museum relied heavily on the authentication...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1992

Temple Architecture: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About Solomon’s Temple?

By Volkmar Fritz
038 Solomon’s Temple presents a double puzzle, one old and the other more recent. The first relates to the fact that the Biblical description of the building is not entirely clear and can be interpreted in several ways. The second puzzle relates...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1987

The Mystery of the Horses of the Sun at the Temple Entrance

Kathleen Kenyon's discovery in cult center illuminates puzzling Biblical passage
008 The last great Yahwistic religious reform before the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. was carried out in Judah by King Josiah in about 621 B.C. The Bible tells us that Josiah “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, following in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, June 1978

Reconstructing the Magnificent Temple Herod Built

By Joseph Patrich
016 017 “In the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon began to build the House of the Lord” (1 Kings 6:1). Bible scholars call this the First Temple. King Solomon built this Temple on...
Bible Review, October 1988

ReViews: Historical Tour of the Temple Mount

Jerusalem: The Temple Mount
By Leen Ritmeyer and Kathleen Ritmeyer
Reviewed by R. Steven Notley
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2016

“Revolt” Coins Minted on Temple Mount

By Hershel Shanks
The Royal Stoa at the southern end of Herod’s Temple Mount was “a structure more noteworthy than any under the sun,” according to Josephus. And when the First Jewish Revolt broke out in 66 C.E., this magnificent building became a hub for rebel coin minting
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2011

More Temple Mount Antiquities Destroyed

A personal view
By Suzanne F. Singer
028 Large-scale illegal construction on the Temple Mount and wholesale dumping of earth in the nearby Kidron Valley resumed this spring. The construction, which is being undertaken by the Waqf, the Muslim religious trust responsible for the Mount...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2000

Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple?

By Carol L. Meyers
047 Did Solomon’s temple contain a seven-branched lampstand known as a menorah? Most people answer this question with an automatic “of course.” 048 But the Biblical text is not so clear. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1979

When Crusader Kings Ruled Jerusalem

By Jack Meinhardt
020 It was one of the most romantic, chaotic, cruel, passionate, bizarre and dramatic episodes in history. In the 12th and 13th centuries A.D., a continual stream of European armies, mustered mostly in present-day France and Germany, marched out...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2000

Royal Gateway to Ancient Jerusalem Uncovered

By Eilat Mazar
038 Dedicated to the memory of Professor Yigal Shiloh. The love and devotion he brought to the discovery of ancient Jerusalem will continue to inspire us for many years to come. For ten years—from 1968 to 1977—the area adjacent to the southern...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1989

How the Wealthy Lived in Herodian Jerusalem

By Nahman Avigad
001 Since it opened last spring at the Israel Museum, the exhibition of finds from the Jewish Quarter excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem has been drawing large and enthusiastic crowds. And well it should. On display are the exciting results...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1976

Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City

By Hershel Shanks
Archaeologist Hillel Geva says that population estimates for ancient Jerusalem are too high. His new estimates begin with people living on no more than a dozen acres.
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2016

Ancient Jerusalem’s Rural Food Basket

The “new” archaeology looks for an urban center’s agricultural base
By Gershon EdelsteinShimon Gibson
046 Until recently, archaeology—or at least Near Eastern archaeology—has been regarded primarily as a historical science. Its focus was history and particularly political history—kings and kingdoms, battles and destructions, the rise and fall of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1982

Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem: Once or Twice?

By Mordechai Cogan
040 040 The Assyrian monarch Sennacherib’s military campaign against King Hezekiah of Judah is one of the best-documented and most discussed events in the history of ancient Israel. The late-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2001

Jerusalem of Gold—A Song and an Ancient Crown

By Shalom M. Paul
038 Shortly before the Six Day War, Israeli composer and singer Naomi Shemer introduced a new song which she called “Yerushalaiyim Shel Zahav,” “Jerusalem of Gold”: “Let me not forget thee O Jerusalem that is...
Biblical Archaeology Review, December 1977

Found in Jerusalem: Remains of the Babylonian Siege

By Suzanne F. Singer
007 On the last day of his 1975 season Professor Nachman Avigad of Hebrew University, digging in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, discovered four arrowheads buried in ashes at the base of a massive stone defense tower. The tower...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1976

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