First Person: Bob Cargill
Jan 23
And Now for Something Completely Different
By: Robert Cargill
How does one properly welcome a new year of BAR following a 2020 season that saw almost all excavation in the Holy Land halted due […]
Nov 13
First Person: A Magazine, Not a Journal
By: Bob Cargill
Our first directive is to report news about archaeology of the lands of the Bible to the general public; we are not a peer-reviewed journal […]
Jul 30
First Person: Unprovenanced Antiquities: Learning the Hard Way
By: Robert R. Cargill
The Museum of the Bible is once again playing defense. After a series of embarrassing setbacks that struck at the heart of its credibility as […]
May 15
First Person: What Does Archaeology Say about Effective Peace Treaties?
By: Robert Cargill
I recently lectured on ancient treaties. These fall into two main categories: parity treaties between two relatively equal parties and suzerain-vassal treaties between a dominant, […]
Feb 27
First Person: Where Is the Real Biblical Bethsaida?
By: Robert R. Cargill
It is no wonder that the signs designating Tel Beit Tsaida, or Bethsaida, a little more than a mile northeast of the Sea of […]
Dec 11
First Person: Introducing the New BAR
By: Robert Cargill
By now you may have noticed we’ve made some changes to this first issue of 2020. In addition to some of the policy changes we’ve […]
