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Visualizing First Temple Jerusalem

By Rivka Gonen
052 Visitors to Jerusalem understandably are often confused by the jumbled and disconnected layers of the past that exist side by side with the teeming modern city. Jerusalem at the time of the First Temple—the Jerusalem of the Bible, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1989

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

Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?

By Rivka Gonen
044 Stylistic and architectural similarities between the cave of Machpelah enclosure at Hebron and the Temple Mount enclosure in Jerusalem have been clearly demonstrated by Nancy Miller in “Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1985

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

Keeping Jerusalem’s Past Alive

By Rivka Gonen
016 Jerusalem is not only one of the oldest cities in the world, it is one of the few cities which has been continuously inhabited for more than 40 centuries. From before 1850 B.C., when the first wall surrounded and defended Jerusalem, people...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1981

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

The Origin of Israelite Sacrifice

By William W. Hallo
059 Sacrificing animals to God—a major activity in the Temple—must certainly seem odd to us in the 21st century. Where did the practice come from? The Israelites didn’t invent it. Scholars have hypothesized its origin in prehistoric times, not...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 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

The Oldest Cookbooks in the World

By William W. Hallo
026 027 When the three messengers visited Abraham to announce the forthcoming birth of his beloved son Isaac, Abraham demonstrated his hospitality by inviting the messengers to a meal before...
Bible Review, August 1993

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

Sumerian Literature

Background to the Bible
By William W. Hallo
028 029 028 The world’s oldest literature—poetry as well as prose—belongs to the Sumerians, that fascinating, enigmatic people who settled...
Bible Review, June 1988

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

“As The Seal Upon Thy Heart”

Glyptic roles in the biblical world
By William W. Hallo
020 Over 50 years ago, Robert Hatch Kennett described Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom as Indicated in Law, Narrative, and Metaphor1 in one of the celebrated Schweich Lectures, a series dedicated to illuminating biblical issues in...
Bible Review, Spring 1985

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

Origins: Let the Games Begin!

By William W. Hallo
Archaeology Odyssey, Winter 1999

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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