Article Index
New App Provides On-Site Virtual Tour of Ruins
06/18/2013 | What typically remain at archaeological sites are the ruins of once-magnificent cities. Visitors must rely on site plans and tour guides to imagine what stood before them long ago—temples, fortifications Read more…
Posted in: Biblical Archaeology Topics, Daily
Roman Concrete
06/13/2013 | Standing the tests of time, Roman concrete is very resilient. One only has to look at structures like the Pantheon in Rome or the harbor at Caesarea Maritima in Israel Read more…
Posted in: Daily
Lovers’ Tale
06/12/2013 | In “Daphnis and Chloe in the Garden of Eden” in the July/August 2013 issue of BAR, Theodore Feder explores how a second-century pagan love story alludes to the Biblical tale Read more…
Posted in: Bible Interpretation
The Dead Sea Scrolls—A Biography
06/12/2013 | Charlotte Hempel reviews “The Dead Sea Scrolls—A Biography” by John J. Collins. Read more…
Posted in: Reviews
The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal
06/12/2013 | Aren Maeir reviews “The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal: Excavation and Interpretation” by Ralph K. Hawkins. Read more…
Posted in: Reviews
Uruk
06/12/2013 | The Biblical writers had a clear sense that human civilization as they knew it had first flourished in the east, in the lands of Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. The stories of Read more…
Posted in: Exhibits/Events
The Walls of the Temple Mount (2 vols.)
06/07/2013 | Shimon Gibson reviews “The Walls of the Temple Mount (2 vols.)” by Eilat Mazar (with Y. Shalev, P. Reuven, J. Steinberg and B. Balogh). Read more…
Posted in: Reviews
Left-Handed People in the Bible
05/31/2013 | The Hebrew Bible mentions left-handed people on three occasions: the story of Ehud’s assassination of the Moabite king (Judges 3:12–30), the 700 Benjamites who could use the sling with deadly Read more…
Posted in: Hebrew Bible, People in the Bible
The Oracle of Delphi—Was She Really Stoned?
05/30/2013 | Archaeologists are good at recovering things left behind by the past, such as buildings, incense altars, tools and relief carvings. What they are not so good at recovering are the Read more…
Posted in: Daily Life and Practice, The Ancient Near Eastern World
Geza Vermes (1924–2013)
05/20/2013 | My friend Geza Vermes is dead. He was, most famously, the intellectual leader in the fight to free the Dead Sea Scrolls from the small coterie of scholars who was Read more…
Posted in: Archaeologists, Biblical Scholars & Works
