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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

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

Of Fathers, Kings and the Deity

The nested households of ancient Israel
By Philip J. KingLawrence E. Stager
042 042 043 Ancient Israelite society was structured in a way that few of us in modern times experience. Its focus was on family and kin...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002

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

Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes

The thousands of individual burials, the several mass burials and the animal burials all demonstrate that these were sacrificial offerings to the gods.
By Lawrence E. StagerJoseph A. Greene
029 The evidence that Phoenicians ritually sacrificed their children comes from four sources. Classical authors and biblical prophets charge the Phoenicians with the practice. Stelae associated with burial urns found at Carthage bear decorations...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 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

Buy Low, Sell High: The Marketplace at Ashkelon

By Daniel M. MasterLawrence E. Stager
036 Ashkelon—an ancient city whose name comes from the same root as shekel—was indeed a city of buying and selling. If archaeologists were to design a place to examine the economy of the ancient world, they could hardly pick a better site...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2014

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

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

Strata: In Their Own Words

By Daniel M. MasterLawrence E. Stager
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012

Ashkelon

An update to Vol. 1, pp. 103–112.
By Yosef GarfinkelDoron DagLawrence E. Stager
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

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