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New Synagogue Excavations In Israel and Beyond
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
The Origin of Israelite Sacrifice
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
Excarnation: Food For Vultures
Unlocking the mysteries of Chalcolithic ossuaries
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
ReViews: Down and Dirty in Jesus’ Time
Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
By Jodi Magness
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2011
ReViews: Three Interwoven Tales
Excavating the City of David: Where Jerusalem’s History Began
By Ronny Reich (trans. Miriam Feinberg Varnosh)
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2011