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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

Site-Seeing: Petra’s Temple of the Winged Lions

By Glenn J. Corbett
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2017

Old, New Banquet Hall by the Temple Mount

By Joseph PatrichShlomit Weksler-Bdolah
A banqueting complex was recently identified just beside the Temple Mount. Dating to the time of King Herod, it projects the splendor and comfort enjoyed by royal guests. With its two dining halls and a fountain room in between, this composite triclinium is probably the most splendid Herodian building that has survived the 70 C.E. Roman destruction of Jerusalem.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2017

Prize Find: An Incense Shovel from Bethsaida

By Rami AravRichard A. Freund
032 Slowly it emerged from the ground: a beautiful, 8-inch-long bronze incense shovel, the prize find of the 1996 excavations at Bethsaida, near the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The shovel lay in a first-century C.E. refuse pit. Just...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

Searching for Bethsaida: The Case for Et-Tell

By Rami Arav
For 30 years, archaeologists have been excavating et-Tell in the Lower Golan, east of the Jordan Rift Valley. See why they believe their site is biblical Bethsaida.
Biblical Archaeology Review, Spring 2020

New Synagogue Excavations In Israel and Beyond

By Glenn J. Corbett
052 It seems like almost everywhere archaeologists dig in the eastern Galilee these days, they are coming up with ancient synagogues. In 2007, a third–fourth-century C.E. synagogue with beautifully decorated mosaic floors depicting Biblical...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2011

Return to the Cave of Letters: What Still Lies Buried?

By Richard A. FreundRami Arav
025 A small shovel started it all. In the summer of 1996, at the excavation of the Galilee site of Bethsaida (which we codirect), we uncovered a small bronze incense shovel. Others like it were used in the imperial cult throughout the Roman...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2001

Bethsaida Rediscovered

Long-lost city found north of Galilee shore
By Rami AravRichard A. FreundJohn F. Shroder Jr.
044 Bethsaida is the town that disappeared. Soon after playing a prominent role in the Gospels—Bethsaida is mentioned more often in the New Testament than any city except Jerusalem and Capernaum—this fishing village on the Sea of Galilee simply...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2000

Hideouts in the Judean Wilderness

Jewish revolutionaries and Christian ascetics sought shelter and protection in cliffside caves
By Joseph Patrich
032 More than three decades have passed since archaeologists and Bedouin prowled the caves of the Judean wilderness in search of ancient manuscripts and other remains. What occasioned this frenzied search was the stunning but accidental finding...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1989

Excarnation: Food For Vultures

Unlocking the mysteries of Chalcolithic ossuaries
By Rami Arav
040 For nearly a century before the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 C.E., Jews, especially in the Jerusalem area, would inter the bones of their deceased in stone boxes, or ossuaries, about 2 feet long and a foot high. The ossuary had to be...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2011

Digging In: Your Guided Journey into the Biblical Past

By Glenn J. Corbett
Biblical Archaeology Review, Fall 2021

Caesarea

An update to Vol. 1, pp. 270–291.
By Yosef PorathKenneth G. HolumAvner RabanJoseph Patrich
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Bethsaida (et-Tell)

By Rami Arav
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

ReViews: Three Interwoven Tales

Excavating the City of David: Where Jerusalem’s History Began
By Ronny Reich (trans. Miriam Feinberg Varnosh)
Reviewed by Jane Cahill West
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2011

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