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4,000 Year Old Texts Survive the Attacks of Time and 9/11
Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
05/16 | 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…
Book of Nehemiah Found Among the Scrolls
05/15 | 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…
Reader’s Response
05/15 | We are lucky to have such a great depth of scholarly content to draw from, and even more lucky to have such an interesting and interested readership. We would love Read more…
The Troubled Return of the James Ossuary
05/14 |
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…
Archaeologists Discover “New” Ancient Language from the Eighth-Century B.C.E.
05/11 | 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…
Fifty Years of Dead Sea Scroll Translation
05/11 | 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…
With Age Comes Experience
05/10 | During her time at the 2011 conference of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Francisco, California, BHD contributing blogger Robin Gallaher Branch enjoyed many stimulating lectures, including one by Read more…
Israeli Archaeologists Discover Byzantine Quarry and Possible Site of Sixth Century Miracle
05/09 | 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…
Using Ethnographic Analogy for Biblical Archaeology
05/09 | 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…
Breaking News—Evidence of Cultic Activity in Judah Discovered at Khirbet Qeiyafa
05/08 | 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…
