Article Index
4,000 Year Old Texts Survive the Attacks of Time and 9/11
05/16/2012 | 4,000 years ago, an official named Aradmu kept economic and social records of agrarian life and the economy near Nippur in southern Iraq. After having been looted from Iraq, smuggled Read more…
Posted in: Inscriptions, News
Book of Nehemiah Found Among the Scrolls
05/15/2012 | Norwegian scroll scholar Torleif Elgvin of Evangelical Lutheran University College in Oslo, Norway, announced that he and colleague Esther Eshel of Bar-Ilan University will be publishing a collection of more Read more…
Posted in: Daily, Dead Sea Scrolls
The Troubled Return of the James Ossuary
05/14/2012 |
Despite the March 14th verdict declaring collector Oded Golan not guilty on all counts of forgery, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) persists in its conflict with the defendant. Prosecutor Dan Read more…
Posted in: Biblical Artifacts, News
Archaeologists Discover “New” Ancient Language from the Eighth-Century B.C.E.
05/11/2012 | When Cambridge archaeologist John MacGinnis examined a tablet listing the names of 60 women found at an Assyrian governor’s palace in southeastern Turkey, he noticed that most did not bear Read more…
Posted in: Inscriptions, News
Fifty Years of Dead Sea Scroll Translation
05/11/2012 | Fifty years have passed since a young scholar named Geza Vermes published the first Dead Sea Scrolls translation of the texts available at the time. The seventh edition of the Read more…
Posted in: Archaeologists, Biblical Scholars & Works, Daily, Dead Sea Scrolls
Israeli Archaeologists Discover Byzantine Quarry and Possible Site of Sixth Century Miracle
05/09/2012 | In the sixth century C.E. history The Buildings of Justinian, the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea describes how God provided a miraculous supply of stone for the construction of the Read more…
Posted in: Artifacts and the Bible, News
Using Ethnographic Analogy for Biblical Archaeology
05/09/2012 | Anthropological archaeologist Jill Katz’s column “An Anthropologist’s View of Early Israel” in the May/June 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review discusses how ethnographic analogy and other anthropological tools can be Read more…
Posted in: Biblical Archaeology Topics
Breaking News—Evidence of Cultic Activity in Judah Discovered at Khirbet Qeiyafa
05/08/2012 | The exciting finds just keep coming at Khirbet Qeiyafa. This unique, fortified Judahite city on the border with Philistia had a short-lived existence between 1020 and 980 B.C.E., according to Read more…
Posted in: Artifacts and the Bible, Biblical Archaeology Sites
Qeiyafa Ostracon Relates the Birth of the Kingdom of Israel
05/07/2012 | Gerard Leval presents French epigrapher Émile Puech’s interpretation of the Qeiyafa Ostracon as the earliest text on the formation of the Kingdom of Israel and the only artifact referencing King Read more…
Posted in: Inscriptions
Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavator to Announce New Finds from the Era of David and Solomon
05/07/2012 | The Biblical archaeology world is abuzz with anticipation over Hebrew University archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel’s press conference on Tuesday, May 8. The press release for the event promises to “announce all-new Read more…
Posted in: Biblical Archaeology Sites, News
