Biblical Archaeology Review: The Archive (1975–2005)

Contents:

• What's a Bamah? How Sacred Space Functioned in Ancient Israel
• "House of David" Restored in Moabite Inscription
• The Tombs of Silwan
• Was Yahweh Worshiped as the Sun?
• Power to the Powerless—Long-Lost Song of Miriam
• Memorandum: Re Restoring Gezer

Contents:

• Jerusalem's Underground Water Systems
  • How They Met
  • Up the Waterspout
  • Siloam Inscription Memorializes Engineering Achievement
• Israeli Court Finds Muslim Council Destroyed Ancient Remains on Temple Mount
• Ousted Chief Scroll Editor Makes His Case
• Yigael Yadin: Hoarder and Monopolist
• "House of David" Built on Sand

Contents:

• Was It an Essene Settlement?
• A Hub of Scribal Activity?
• Solving the Mithraic Mysteries
• Exodus Itinerary Confirmed by Egyptian Evidence
• Archaeology's Dirty Secret

Contents:

• Potter's Field or High Priest's Tomb?
• Resting Place of the Rich and Famous
• The "House of David" and the House of the Deconstructionists
• MMT as the Maltese Falcon
• Paul, "Works of the Law," and MMT
• For This You Waited 35 years
• Revolution in Bible Study

Contents:

• The Many Masters of Dor—Part I: When Canaanites Became Phoenician Sailors
• 1993 Excavation Opportunities
• Old Stones, New Friends
• Tell-ing It Like It Is
• More Scrolls Lie Buried
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• The Many Masters of Dor—Part II: How Bad Was Ahab?
• A Death at Dor
• Cabul—Royal Gift Found
• The Welcome Mat Is Out-—Until You're Asked to Leave!
• The Great Mikveh Debate
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• Ephesus—Key to a Vision in Revelation
• The Many Masters of Dor—Part III: The Persistence of Phoenician Culture
• Uncovering Herod's Seaside Palace
• Where is David's Ziklag?
• The Qumran Settlement—Monastery, Villa, or Fortress?
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• An Interview with Moshe and Trude Dothan—Part I: The Philistines and the Dothans—An Archaeological Romance
• The City of Salt
• An Ancient Israelite House in Egypt?
• The Bat Creek Inscription—Did Judean Refugees Escape to Tennessee?
• Unlocking the Mystery of Rogem Hiri
• Is the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia?
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• Ancient Churches in the Holy Land
• An Interview with Moshe and Trude Dothan—Part II: The Philistines and the Dothans—An Archaeological Romance
• Capernaum from Jesus' Time and After
• Herod's Temple in East Anglia
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• What Ever Happened to the Ammonites?
• The Search for Biblical Heshbon
• Where the Temple Tax Was Buried
• 26 Tons of Gold and 65 Tons of Silver
• Cast Your Net upon the Waters
• Archaeological Encyclopedia for the '90s
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• Gamla—Portrait of a Rebellion
• 1992 Excavation Opportunities A Spirit of Discovery
• "Termite" Catches the Bug
• Puzzling Public Buildings
• DSS Update
  • Preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Available to All!
  • BAS Establishes Institute for Dead Sea Scroll Studies
  • What the Monopolists Have Done Right
• What We Should Do Next Time Great Manuscripts Are Discovered

Contents:

• Locating the Original Temple Mount
• Against All Odds: Elie Borowski Builds His Museum
• Not So Up-to-Date in Kansas City
• The Baptism of Jesus and a New Dead Sea Scroll
• How Bible Translations Differ

Contents:

• A Thousand Years of History in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter
• The Pomegranate Scepter Head—From the Temple of the Lord or from a Temple of Asherah?
• Nahman Avigad, 1905–1992
  • In Memoriam
  • A Personal Reminiscence
• Sepphoris—An Urban Portrait of Jesus
• Another View of the "Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal"

Contents:

• The Bible Scholar Who Became An Undercover Agent
• Rediscovered! The Land of Geshur
• Mystery Circles
• Masada
  • Arms and the Man
  • A Personal Reminiscence
• Sepphoris—An Urban Portrait of Jesus
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• Why Professor Qimron’s Lawsuit Is a Threat to Intellectual Freedom
• Bits and Pieces
• Did Jesus Really Die on the Cross?
• Burial Cave of the Caiaphas Family
• Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes
• Jewish Funerary Inscriptions—Most Are in Greek
• Did Jesus Speak Greek?
• The Dangers of Dividing Disciplines

Contents:

• Excavating an Ancient Merchantman
• New Mosaic Art from Sepphoris
• How Did the Philistines Enter Canaan?
• The World's Oldest Poorbox
• BAS Dead Sea Scroll Research Council: Fragments

Contents:

• 1991 Excavation Opportunities
• From the Director's Chair: Starting a New Dig
• High Art from the Time of Abraham
• Grisly Assyrian Record of Torture and Death
• Dead Sea Scroll Update:
  • Strugnell Denounces Judaism
  • Strugnell and Israel Struggle for Control of Scrolls
  • Strugnell Calls Leading Scroll Scholar Incompetent
• Israel's Antiquities Authority Sides with Recalcitrant Scholars
• VanderKam Reneges

Contents:

• When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon
• Tiberias—Preview of Coming Attractions
• Who Controls the Scrolls?
• The Major Dead Sea Scroll Players
• Silence, Anti-Semitism and the Scrolls
• New York Times Endorses BAR's Position
• The Church's Teaching on Supersessionism
• When 5,613 Scholars Get Together in One Place
  • The Annual Meeting, 1990
  • BAR Scholarships Available to Arabs and Israelis
• Women's Popular Religion, Suppressed in the Bible, Now Revealed by Archaeology

Contents:

• Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?
• Qatzrin—Reconstructing Village Life in Talmudic Times
• Please Return the Siloam Inscription to Jerusalem
• Buzz or Button?
• It Had to Happen—Scientists Examine Remains of Ancient Bathroom

Contents:

• Six Biblical Signatures: Seals and Seal Impressions of Six Biblical Personages Recovered
• Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon
• Beauty and Utility in Bone—New Light on Bone Crafting
• Herod's Lady's Earring?
• Reconstructing with Computers

Contents:

• Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail
• The Trek of the Tribes as They Settled in Canaan
• Understanding Asherah—Exploring Semitic Iconography
• The Temple Mount in Court
• Scholars, Popularizers, Albright, and Mes

Contents:

• Scholars Disagree: Can You Name the Panel with the Israelites?
• Is the Vatican Suppressing the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Carbon-14 Tests Substantiate Scroll Dates
• The Last Days and Hours at Masada
• The Sea Peoples and Their Contributions to Civilization

Contents:

• Ekron of the Philistines Part I: Where The Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshiped In
• 1990 Excavation Opportunities
  • Ralph Lauren: The Field is Wide Open!
  • Ben-Tor, Long Married, Will Return to Hazor
  • Digs at a Glance
• Pomegranate Scepters and Incense Stand with Pomegranates Found in Priest's Grave
• Searching for the Phoenicians in Sardinia

Contents:

• Dead Sea Scroll Variation on "Show and Tell"—It’s Called "Tell, But No Show"
• Leading Dead Sea Scroll Scholar Denounces Delay
• Celebrating at the Annual Meeting
• Ekron of the Philistines, Part II: Olive-Oil Suppliers to the World
• Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence

Contents:

• Church of the Apostles Found on Mt. Zion
• Five Ways to Conquer a City
• Polydactylism in the Ancient World
• Archaeology and the Bible—Understanding Their Special Relationship

Contents:

• Glorious Beth-Shean
• Small Inventions? They Changed How People Lived in the Hellenistic Age
• Scroll Editors Spurn $100,000 Offer to Publish Book of Photographs
• The Dead Sea Scroll Monopoly Must Be Broken
• Israeli Oversight Committee Takes Charge
• Cross and Milik Fail to Meet Deadline
• A Visit with M. Jozef T. Milik, Dead Sea Scroll Editor
• "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself": What It Really Means

Contents:

• 3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt
• Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not the Late Bronze Age
• Dating Jericho's Destruction: Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts
• Sussita Awaits the Spade
• The Bottleneck of Archaeological Publication
• The Difference Between Scholarly Mistakes and Scholarly Concealment: The Case of MMT

Contents:

• How Ancient Man First Utilized Rivers in the Desert
• Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not the Late Bronze Age
• What's a Roman Villa Doing Outside Jerusalem
• Did Philip Baptize the Eunuch at Ein Yael?
• Absorbing Archaeology at the Jerusalem Congress
• Breaking a Scholarly Monopoly—The Case of the Gospel of Thomas
• How I Almost Climbed Cheops' Pyramid
• Computers and the Bible

Contents:

• Digs in '89
• Volunteer Opportunities At-a-Glance
• Prize Find: Tel Dan Scepter Head—Belonging to Priest or King?
• First Hand: A Poet at Ashkelon
• Excavating in Samson Country—Philistines and Israelites at Tel Batash
• The Song of Deborah—Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not

Contents:

• The Synagogue at Meroth: Does It Fix Israel's Northern Border in Second Temple Times?
• The Rampant Rape of Israel's Archaeological Sites
• A Pilgrimage to the Site of the Swine Miracle
• Dever Stars at Lackluster Annual Meeting
• Glossary: Standing Stones: Masseboth and Stelae

Contents:

• Does the Bible Exaggerate King Solomon's Golden Wealth?
  • Where Did Solomon's Gold Go?
  • Shishak's Military Campaign in Israel Confirmed
• Royal Gateway to Ancient Jerusalem Uncovered
• Visualizing First Temple Jerusalem
• At Least Publish the Dead Sea Scrolls Timetable!

Contents:

• Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal—Israel's Department of Antiquities Joins Conspiracy to Keep Scrolls Secret
• What Happened to the Cult Figurines? Israelite Religion Is Purified after the Exile
• Is This Solomon's Seaport?
• A Workable Proposal to Regulate Antiquities Trade
• Visualizing First Temple Jerusalem
• Stones in Many Shapes and Sizes—Ashlars, Bosses, Margins, Headers, and Stretchers

Contents:

• What Should Be Done about the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?
• Hideouts in the Judean Wilderness
• How I Found a Fourth-Century BC Papyrus Scroll on My First Time Out!

Contents:

• Reconstructing Herod's Temple Mount in Jerusalem
  • A Pilgrim's Journey
  • Quarrying And Transporting Stones for Herod's Temple Mount
  • Reconstructing the Triple Gate
• New Hope for the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls
• How Are "BAR" and "BAS" Pronounced?
• How the Ancients De-Loused Themselves

Contents:

• Prize Find: Mosaic Masterpiece Dazzles Sepphoris Volunteers
• Hands On: No Grid Lock at Ashkelon—The View from the Square
• Hi-Tech Archaeology: Ground-Penetrating Radar—New Technology Won’t Make the Pick and Trowel Obsolete
• Jacob in History
• Two Early Israelite Cult Sites Now Questioned
• Why Is a Bilbil Called a Bilbil?

Contents:

• BAR Interview: Yigal Shiloh—Last Thoughts
• New Light on the Edomites
• Restoring the Great Gate at Lachish
• Burial Headrest as a Return to the Womb—A Reevaluation
• 1987 Annual Meeting in Boston: A Wild, Wonderful Academic Circus

Contents:

• Corinth in Paul's Time—What Can Archaeology Tell Us?
• The Route Through Sinai—Why the Israelites Fleeing Egypt Went South
• Yigal Shiloh—Last Thoughts (Part II)
• Recovering Roman Jerusalem—The Entryway Beneath Damascus Gate

Contents:

• Name of Ancient Israel's Last President Discovered on Lead Weight
• Jewish Rebels Dig Strategic Tunnel System
• The Marzeah Amos Denounces—Using Archaeology to Interpret a Biblical Text
• On Cult Places and Early Israelites: A Response to Michael Coogan

Contents:

• The Galilee Boat—2,000-Year-Old Hull Recovered Intact
  • Dating Pottery from the Galilee Boat Excavation
  • How Old Is the Galilee Boat?
• Searching for Israelite Origins
• Finding Evidence of Ancient Nomads
• Why Did the Early Israelites Dig All Those Pits?

Contents:

• Understanding the Nabateans
  • Nabatean Farms Reconstructed in the Desert
• Fixing the Site of the Tabernacle at Shiloh
• Rediscovering the Ancient Gola—The Golan Archaeological Museum
• Was BAR an Accessory to Highway Robbery?

Contents:

• Lachish—Key to the Israelite Conquest of Canaan?
• Excavation Opportunities 1987
• Discovering What Jewish Miqva’ot Can Tell Us About Christian Baptism
• Jerusalem Model Rediscovered

Contents:

• Arad—An Ancient Israelite Fortress with a Temple to Yahweh
• The Saga of Eliashib
• The Well of Arad
• Jesus' Tomb Depicted on a Byzantine Gold Ring From Jerusalem
• 1986 Annual Meeting
• Dever's "Sermon on The Mound"

Contents:

• The Monotheism of the Heretic Pharaoh
• Precursor of Mosiac Monotheism or Egyptian Anomaly?
• King Solomon’s Wall Still Supports the Temple Mount
• The Jerusalem Wall That Shouldn’t Be There

Contents:

• Avriham Biran—Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan
• Cult Stands—A Bewildering Variety of Shapes and Sizes
• What Can Archaeology Tell Us about Solomon's Temple?
• Peculiar Tomb Headrests May Depict Return to the Womb
• Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?

Contents:

• "Ancient Chorazin Comes Back to Life"
• Re-Dating the Exodus
• Name on Deuteronomy's Author Found on Seal Ring
• Jeremiah's Scribe and Confidant Speaks from a Hoard of Clay Bullae

Contents:

• Intrigue and the Scroll—Behind the Scenes of Israel's Acquisition of the Temple Scroll
• Is the Temple Scroll a Sixth Book of the Torah—Lost for 2,500 Years?
• The Gigantic Dimensions of the Visionary Temple in the Temple Scroll
• The Mysterious Silver Hoard From Eshtemoa
• Ancient Records and the Exodus Plagues

Contents:

• Joshua’s Altar—An Iron Age I Watchtower
• How Can Kempinski Be So Wrong!
• Excavation Opportunities 1986
• First-Hand: Digging at the Grass Roots Level
• Shiloh Yields Some, But Not All, of Its Secrets

Contents:

• Jerusalem Tombs from the Days of the First Temple
• The Garden Tomb: Was Jesus Buried Here?
• The Garden Tomb and the Misfortunes of an Inscription
• The Religious Message of the Bible

Contents:

• Does the Holy Sepulchre Church Mark the Burial of Jesus?
• Ancient Gold Ring Depicts the Holy Sepulchre
• Why the Moabite Stone Was Blown to Pieces
• From Ebla to Damascus: The Archaeology of Ancient Syria

Contents:

• New Evidence May Explain Image on Shroud of Turin
• BAR Interviews Avraham Eitan
• Solomon's Negev Defense Line Contained Three Fewer Fortresses
• The Iron Age Sites in the Negev Highlands—Military Fortresses or Nomads Settling Down?

Contents:

• Rabbi Nelson Glueck—An Archaeologist's Secret Life in the Service of the OSS
• Where is Ezion-Geber? A Reappraisal of the Site Archaeologist Nelson Glueck Identified as King Solomon's Red Sea Port
• The Search for Roots—Israel's Biblical Landscape Reserve
• The God-Fearers--A Literary and Theological Invention
• Jews and God-Fearers in the Holy City of Aphrodite
• The Omnipresence of the God-Fearers

Contents:

• Excavating in the Shadow of the Temple Mount
• Herod's Mighty Temple Mount
• When the Priests Trumpeted the Onset of the Sabbath
• What Is a Good Bible Dictionary?
• Why King Mesha of Moab Sacrificed His Oldest Son
• Ancient Israelite Art Sparse in Impressive Show at Met

Contents:

• Excavation Tactics and Strategy
• Strange’s Laws of Archaeological Excavation
• Has Joshua’s Altar Been Found on Mt. Ebal?
• Crucifixion—The Archaeological Evidence
• Challenge to Sun-Worship Interpretation of Temple Scroll’s Gilded Staircase

Contents:

• The Shroud of Turin—Probably the Work of a 14th-Century Artist or Forger
• Exploring Philistine Origins on the Island of Cyprus
• Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century BC Pictures

Contents:

• Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years
• BARview: Neusner Joins Ranks of Superman
• Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?
• The Fortresses King Solomon Built to Protect His Southern Border
• Daniel and Belshazzar in History

Contents:

• The Southern Sinai Exodus Route in Ecological Perspective
• Has Mt. Sinai Been Found?
• Should the Exodus and the Israelite Settlement Be Re-Dated?
• You Too Can Read Hieroglyphics
• BARview: Dubitante No More—BAR to Accept Ads for Near Eastern Antiquities

Contents:

• Fragments from the Book of Balaam Found at Deir Alla
• Ancient Ivory—The Story of Wealth, Decadence and Beauty
• Lord Kingsborough Lost His Fortune Trying to Prove the Maya Were Descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes
• BARview: Failure to Publish Dead Sea Scrolls Is Leitmotif of New York University Scroll Conference
• BARview: Israeli Authorities Now Responsible for Delay in Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls

Contents:

• The City of David after Five Years of Digging
• 1986 BAS Publication Awards
• Scholars Corner: New Analysis of the Crucified Man
• Ancient Seafarers Bequeath Unintended Legacy
• Traveling Companions—A Guide to Guidebooks
• BARview: The Neusner Phenomenon—Personality and Substance

Contents:

• Probable Head of Priestly Scepter from Solomon’s Temple Surfaces in Jerusalem
• Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control?
• Nag Hammadi Codices Shed New Light on Early Christian History
• The Book Albright Never Finished
• Excavation Opportunities 1984

Contents:

• The Shroud of Turin—Probably the Work of a 14th-Century Artist or Forger
• Exploring Philistine Origins on the Island of Cyprus
• Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century BC Pictures
• News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season
• Scholars Corner: Yadin Presents New Interpretation of the Famous Lachish Letters
• BAR's Tenth Anniversary Section

Contents:

• Loaves and Fishes Mosaic Near Sea of Galilee Restored
• Synagogue Excavation Reveals Stunning Mosaic of Zodiac and Torah Ark
• BAR Interviews Amihai Mazar—A New Generation of Israeli Archaeologists Comes of Age
• Benjamin Mazar Reminisces
• Clumsy Forger Fools the Scholars—But Only for a Time

Contents:

• Jerusalem Rolls Out Red Carpet for Biblical Archaeology Congress
• Fifteen Years in Sinai
• Red Sea or Reed Sea?
• The Mystery of the Unexplained Chain
• Restoring the Reputation of Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

Contents:

• Woolley’s Ur Revisited
• The New Sumerian Dictionary
• Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale
• Sumerian "Firsts"
• Yigael Yadin 1917–1984
• The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll
• The Case of the Gilded Staircase
• The Biblical Oryx—A New Name for an Ancient Animal

Contents:

• Sumptuous Roman Baths Uncovered Near Sea of Galilee
• Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah?
• Is the Cultic Installation at Dan Really an Olive Press?
• What a Concordance Can Do for You
• Yigael Yadin 1917–1984
• The Verdict on Advertisements for Near Eastern Antiquities—Dubitante

Contents:

• BAR Interviews Yigael Yadin
• The Undiscovered Gate Beneath Jerusalem’s Golden Gate
• Album from My Summer Seminar in Israel
• The Saga of the Goliath Family—As Revealed in Their Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Tomb
• BAR Jr.: Gamma Rays Halt Deterioration of Mummy of Ramses II
• Woman, a Power Equal to Man
• Excavation Opportunities 1983
• News from the Field: Has Another Lost Ark Been Found?

Contents:

• And David Sent Spoils . . . to the Elders in Aroer
• Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood
• A BAR Editorial: Ancient Remains on the Temple Mount Must Not Be Destroyed
• Five Ways to Defend an Ancient City
• Scholars’ Corner: Network of Iron Age Fortresses Served as Military Signal Posts
• News from the Field: The Divine Name Found in Jerusalem

Contents:

• Searching for Herod’s Tomb
• Herod’s Family Tomb in Jerusalem
• Of Hems and Tassels
• Tom Crotser Has Found the Ark of the Covenant—Or Has He?
• How Moses Turned a Staff into a Snake and Back Again
• Gudea of Lagash Ends Long Journey
• Scholars’ Corner: Correlation Established Between Silver Content of Coins and Economic Prosperity
• News from the Field: Herod’s Harbor Construction Recovered Underwater

Contents:

• The Mysterious MBI People
• The Sad Case of Tell Gezer
• Rain in the Desert
• The Ark That Wasn’t There
• Scholars’ Corner: Digital Images Expose Ancient Inscriptions
• News from the Field: Gold Hoard Found at Capernaum

Contents:

• Claude Frederic-Armand Schaeffer-Forrer (1898–1982): An Appreciation
• The Tablets from Ugarit and Their Importance for Biblical Studies
• The Last Days of Ugarit
• Bronze Bull Found in Israelite "High Place" from the Time of the Judges
• A Visit with Ahilud
• Whither ASOR?
• Scholars’ Corner: Is the Solomonic City Gate at Megiddo Really Solomonic?

Contents:

• Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found at Capernaum
• Putting the Bible on the Map
• Nineteen Bible Atlases Compared
• Jerusalem Flourishing—A Craft Center for Stone, Pottery, and Glass
• Jerusalem in Flames—The Burnt House Captures a Moment in Time
• Ur and Jerusalem Not Mentioned in Ebla Tablets, Say Ebla Expedition Scholars

Contents:

• Ancient Musical Instruments: The Finds That Could Not Be
• What Did David’s Lyre Look Like?
• How Scholarly Communication Works
• "Sounding Brass" and Hellenistic Technology
• BAR Jr.: Digging, Dug, Gone
• The Volunteer’s Contribution to Archaeology and Vice Versa
• Excavation Opportunities 1982
• Ebla Scholarship à la Syrienne

Contents:

• Two Prominent Israeli Scholars Assess One of the Most Controversial Aspects of Biblical History
• Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?
• How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities
• Archaeological Stumpers
• BAR Jr.: On the Surface
• Jerusalem Couple Excavates Under Newly Built Home in Search of Their Roots
• BAS Photo Contest

Contents:

• The Israelite Occupation of Canaan: An Account of the Archaeological Evidence
• Caesarea Maritima: The Search for Herod’s City
• Caesarea Beneath the Sea
• In Defense of Hans Goedicke
• In America, Biblical Archaeology Was—And Still Is—Largely a Protestant Affair
• Mitchell Dahood—In Memoriam

Contents:

• What We Know about the Philistines
• Ancient Jerusalem’s Rural Food Basket
• John Bright’s New Revision of A History of Israel
• BAR Jr.: Sherds, Sherds, Sherds
• Scholars’ Corner: Has Jerusalem’s Millo Been Found?

Contents:

• God Before the Hebrew
• The Dayan Saga—The Man and His Archaeological Collection
• First "Dead Sea Scroll" Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries
• Essene Origins: Palestine or Babylonia?
• Scholars’ Corner: New Testament Illuminated by Dead Sea Scrolls

Contents:

• What Does the Bible Say?
• The Torah, The Prophets and The Writings—A New Jewish Translation
• Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?
• How Iron Technology Changed the Ancient World and Gave the Philistines a Military Edge
• A Bible Scholar Looks at BAR’s Coverage of the Exodus
• BAR Jr.: "Lachish and Azekah Were the Only Fortified Cities of Judah That Remained" (Jeremiah 34:7)
• Antiquities of Tyre Spared Despite PLO Occupation and War in Lebanon
• Scholars’ Corner: Syrian Inscriptions Published in Biblical Archeologist Assist in Understanding Hebrew Bible

Contents:

• Animals of the Bible: Living Links to Antiquity
• Digging by the Sea
• Prominent British Scholar Assesses Kathleen Kenyon
• A Capsule History of Archaeological Method
• Who First Excavated Stratigraphically?
• Piety and Patriotism—Secularism and Skepticism: The Dual Problem of Archaeological Bias

Contents:

• New Light on the Nabataeans
• A Plea for the Bedoul Bedouin of Petra
• The Other Side of the Coin
• The Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke—Of History, Theology, and Literature

Contents:

• Did I Excavate Kadesh-Barnea?
• Tunnel Exposes New Areas of Temple Mount
• How Herod Moved Gigantic Blocks to Construct Temple Mount
• BAR Jr.: Sharp Eyes Find Ancient Treasure on the Beach
• Is Tel Masos an Amalekite Settlement?
• Should the Term "Biblical Archaeology" Be Abandoned?
• The Other Side of the Tell

Contents:

• Keeping Jerusalem’s Past Alive
• Jerusalem’s Water Supply During Siege—The Rediscovery of Warren’s Shaft
• Saving the Dead Sea Scrolls for the Next 2000 Years
• BAR Jr.: Young Archaeologist Strikes Pay Dirt
• Earliest Aramaic Inscription Uncovered in Syria

Contents:

• The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan
• An Ancient Coin Depicts Noah’s Ark
• What Archaeology Can Contribute to an Understanding of the Bible
• The Exodus and the Crossing of the Red Sea, According to Hans Goedicke
• A Critique of Professor Goedicke’s Exodus Theoriesa
• BAR Jr.: Housewares and Recipes from 2,000 Years Ago

Contents:

• American Archaeologists Find Remains of Ancient Synagogue Ark in Galilee
• Politics at the City of David
• Jewish Religious Law Does Not Forbid Archaeological Excavations, Even of Graves
• How Not to Create a History of the Exodus—A Critique of Professor Goedicke's Theories
• Are the "Cities of the Plain" Mentioned in the Ebla Tablets?
• Yigal Shiloh Objects to BAR's Coverage of His Jerusalem Dig
• BAR Jr.: Not All That Glitters Is Gold—But Sometimes It Is

Contents:

• Rescue in the Biblical Negev
• A Volunteer in the Negev
• Volunteer Opportunities in 1980
• The Marvelous Mosaics of Kissufim
• A Scientist Looks at Velikovsky’s "Worlds in Collision"
• Letter from a Hebrew King?

Contents:

• How Water Tunnels Worked
• The Regional Study—A New Approach to Archaeological Investigation
• A Smithy in a Crusader Church

Contents:

• The Known, the Unknown, and the Debatable
• Interview with David Noel Freedman
• New Ebla Epigrapher Attacks Conclusion of Ousted Ebla Scholar
• The Raw Material
• Were Christians Buried in Roman Catacombs to Await the Second Coming?
• A Rare Look at the Jewish Catacombs of Rome
• Using Quintilian to Interpret Mark

Contents:

• The Last Legacy of Roland de Vaux
• The Separate Traditions of Abraham and Jacob
• In Search of Solomon’s Lost Treasures
• Excavations Near Temple Mount Reveal Splendors of Herodian Jerusalem

Contents:

• World’s Oldest Musical Notation Deciphered on Cuneiform Tablet
• Have Sodom and Gomorrah Been Found?
• The Rose of Jericho—Symbol of the Resurrection
• The "Daughters of Judah" Are Really Rural Satellites of an Urban Center
• BAR Interviews Giovanni Pettinato
• Are the Ebla Tablets Relevant to Biblical Research?

Contents:

• Ebla and the Bible—Observations on the New Epigrapher’s Analysis
• Beer-sheba of the Patriarchs
• Was Cain Angry or Depressed?
• Sir Flinders Petrie: Father of Palestinian Archaeology

Contents:

• Gamla: the Masada of the North
• The Fall of Gamla
• In Pain Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children
• The World’s First Museum and the World’s First Archaeologists
• BAR Readers to Restore Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges
• Phoenicians in Brazil?

Contents:

• How to Pick a Dig
• Thinking Ahead to Summer . . . Digs in ’79
• Did Yahweh Have a Consort?
• Syria Tries to Influence Ebla Scholarship
• Syrian Interview with Chief Ebla Archaeologist Matthiae

Contents:

• The Prophets as Revolutionaries: A Sociopolitical Analysis
• Plants as Biblical Metaphors
• The Hebrew Origins of Superman
• The Evolution of Two Hebrew Scripts
• Excavations at Tell Mevorakh Are Prelude to Tell Dor Dig
• How the Blind See the Holy Land
• More Digs in ’79

Contents:

• Book Excerpt: The Shapira Affair
• Ancient Burial Customs Preserved in Jericho Hills
• Digging in the City of David
• A Cryptogram in the Phoenician Inscription from Brazil

Contents:

• Mystery Find at Lachish
• Hittites in the Bible: What Does Archaeology Say?
• Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple?
• The First Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt

Contents:

• Answers at Lachish
• Crosses in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Waystation on the Road to the Christian Cross
• Do You Know When the Ibexes Give Birth?
• Ebla Evidence Evaporates
• BAR Excavation in Jerusalem Highlights Summer Seminar
• Reader Inspects BAR Restoration of an Israelite Village

Contents:

• Leading Scholar Calls for Prompt Publication
• Assessing Ebla
• The Name of God in the New Testament
• Bedouin Find Papyri Three Centuries Older Than Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Historical Importance of the Samaria Papyri
• BAR Preservation Fund Goes to Work
• The Holy Land in Coins
• Invitation to a Summer’s Dig
• Ancient City of David To Be Re-Excavated
• Israel’s Archaeological Gifts to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat

Contents:

• Were the Early Israelites Pastoral Nomads?
• The Mystery of the Horses of the Sun at the Temple Entrance
• Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem
• From These Hills . . .
• The Double Paternity of Jesus
• Your Journal Is Not to My Taste
• Is Withholding Pictures of Archaeological Finds Justifiable?
• Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron

Contents:

• The Politics of Ebla
• Did the Patriarchs Live at Givat Sharett?
• The Work of a Lifetime Destroyed—Three Years Later
• An Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges
• An Alphabet from the Days of the Judges
• How It Came about: From Saturday to Sunday
• Editorial: Free Hadrian
• Coming in BAR—Did Yahweh Have a Consort?

Contents:

• Archaeology for the Young of All Ages
• Dating the Patriarchal Stories
• BAR Readers Restore and Preserve Herodian Jericho
• Saving the Mt. Sinai Mosaics
• What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us about the Genesis Flood
• Yigael Yadin to Head New Excavation

Contents:

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them
• Yigael Yadin Finds a Bama at Beer-Sheva
• The Importance of Dating
• Exploring the Life of Jesus
• The Dark Spring
• The Bible Comes to Life at the Jewish Museum
• Able-Bodied Diggers Sought

Contents:

• The Winter Palaces of Jericho
• Tight-Lipped Archaeologists—How the Press Erred
• A Plea for Information
• Does the Gospel of Matthew Proclaim Mary’s Virginity?
• Where Is Abraham’s Ur?
• What We Don’t Know about Moses and the Exodus
• How a Dig Begins
• Père de Vaux and the Old Testament
• Was There an Israelite Amphictyony?

Contents:

• Has the U.S. Geological Survey Found King Solomon’s Gold Mines?
• Using Ancient Near Eastern Parallels in Old Testament Study
• Archaeology in Jerusalem—A Philatelic View
• Beer-Sheva Excavator Blasts Yadin—No Bama at Beer-Sheva
• A Jerusalem Celebration—Of Temples and Bamot
• Thoughts on Archaeological Method
• How a Dig Begins
• Père de Vaux and the Old Testament
• Was There an Israelite Amphictyony?

Contents:

• Abraham in History
• Without Avigad’s Pictures—Is the Jerusalem Cardo Roman after All?
• An Ancient Boat’s Modern Ordeal
• Found after 1400 Years—The Magnificent Nea
• Jerusalem of Gold—A Song and an Ancient Crown
• Evidence of Earliest Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Comes to Light in Holy Sepulchre Church

Contents:

• Abraham in History
• Without Avigad’s Pictures—Is the Jerusalem Cardo Roman after All?
• An Ancient Boat’s Modern Ordeal
• Found after 1400 Years—The Magnificent Nea
• Jerusalem of Gold—A Song and an Ancient Crown
• Evidence of Earliest Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Comes to Light in Holy Sepulchre Church

Contents:

• Albright the Beautician Reveals Secrets of Queen Esther’s Cosmetic Aids
• Hazor and the Battle of Joshua—Is Joshua 11 Wrong?
• Found in Jerusalem: Remains of the Babylonian Siege
• American "Lawrence of Arabia" Dies
• Excavating Anthropoid Coffins in the Gaza Strip
• Using Neutron Activation Analysis to Establish the Provenance of Pottery
• Cache of Hebrew and Phoenician Inscriptions Found in the Desert
• From the Volunteer’s Viewpoint: History by the Bucketful

Contents:

• A Futile Quest: The Search for Noah’s Ark
• "Put Your Hand Under My Thigh"—The Patriarchal Oath
• The Kibbutz Sasa Kernos
• Clothes Maketh the Man—An Insight from Ancient Ugarit
• Hezekiah’s Tunnel Re-Opens
• A Life of Albright
• Archaeology as a Love Affair
• Ancient Royal Library Found
• Papyrus Manufacture Once Again a Monopoly in Egypt
• How the Septuagint Differs
• American Tourist Returns "Hazor" Tablet to Israel after 13 Years
• Danaans and Danites—Were the Hebrews Greek?

Contents:

• The Debate Continues
• In Defense of the Stables at Megiddo
• Afterword
• The Evolution of a Church—Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre
• How to Save Money on the New Archaeological Encyclopedia
• A Temple at Dor
• Israelite Conquest or Settlement? New Light from Tell Masos
• The Differences Between Israelite Culture and the Other Major Cultures of the Ancient Near East

Contents:

• How the Wealthy Lived in Herodian Jerusalem
• The Death and Burial of St. Peter
• Oldest Hebrew Letters Found Near Tel Aviv
• BAR’s Bicentennial Salute—The United States Navy Explores the Holy Land
• The Ancient Cardo Is Discovered in Jerusalem
• Rare Bronze Statue of Hadrian Found by Tourist
• Yohanan Aharoni—The Man and His Work
• The Promise of Ebla

Contents:

• Nelson Glueck and King Solomon—A Romance That Ended
• Horned Altar for Animal Sacrifice Unearthed at Beer-Sheva
• Yigael Yadin on "Hazor, The Head of All Those Kingdoms"
• Where Is Biblical Debir?
• King David as Builder

Contents:

• Philistine Temple Discovered Within Tel Aviv City Limits
• Archaeology or Archeology? Tell or Tel?
• Did the Philistines Destroy the Israelite Sanctuary at Shiloh?—The Archaeological Evidence
• Archaeological Work in Arabia Now Possible
• The Archaeology of Dust and Ashes
• Archaeology for Teenagers
• When Was the Age of the Patriarchs?—Of Amorites, Canaanites, and Archaeology

Contents:

• "Digging Up Jerusalem&"—A Critique
• Archaeology Goes On in Israel
• Kathleen Kenyon’s Anti-Zionist Politics—Does It Affect Her Work?
• Yadin’s Popular Book on Hazor Now Available
• The Patriarchs’ Wives as Sisters—Is the Anchor Bible Wrong?
• Part of Ten Lost Tribes Located

Contents:

• How the Dead Sea Scrolls Were Found
• Hazor and the Battle of Deborah—Is Judges 4 Wrong?
• The Red Sea Scrolls
• "Signature" of King Hezekiah’s Servant Recovered
• A Basic Biblical Archaeology Library
• Avi Eitan Appointed New Head of Israeli Antiquities Department
• Living Plants as Archaeological Artifacts
• Two Cases of Discrimination