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• In the Footsteps of King David

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/12/2018

  

  Aren M. Maeir reviews In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City by Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor, and Michael G. Hasel.   Read more…
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• Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  10/10/2018

  

  Gary A. Rendsburg reviews Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible by Ronald Hendel.   Read more…
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• Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/15/2018

  

  Jennie Ebeling reviews Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology by Eric H. Cline.   Read more…
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• The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/15/2018

  

  Ronald S. Hendel reviews The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times by James L. Kugel.   Read more…
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• Beyond the Texts

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  06/01/2018

  

  Richard Elliott Friedman reviews Beyond the Texts by William G. Dever.   Read more…
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• The Exodus

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  02/22/2018

  

  Eric H. Cline reviews The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman.   Read more…
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• A Political History of the Arameans

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  02/22/2018

  

  Yigal Levin reviews A Political History of the Arameans by K. Lawson Younger, Jr..   Read more…
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• The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Early Christianity

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/12/2017

  

  Tony Burke reviews The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Early Christianity, edited by Jonathan A. Draper and Clayton N. Jefford.   Read more…
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• The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  10/11/2017

  

  Mary Joan Winn Leith reviews The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology, edited by Paul Corby Finney.   Read more…
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• Reign and Religion in Palestine

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/16/2017

  

  Oliver D. Hoover reviews “Reign and Religion in Palestine: The Use of Sacred Iconography in Jewish Coinage” by Anne Lykke.   Read more…
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• Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  06/14/2017

  

  Cynthia Shafer-Elliott reviews “Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective” by Gloria London.   Read more…
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• Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom

  Marek Dospěl   •  04/11/2017

  

  Marek Dospěl reviews “Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom” by Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold and Kei Yamamoto.   Read more…
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• Jesus and Magic

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  04/11/2017

  

  Bruce Chilton reviews “Jesus and Magic: Freeing the Gospel Stories from Modern Misconceptions” by Richard A. Horsley.   Read more…
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• Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  04/11/2017

  

  Tim Whitmarsh explores the history of atheism from its beginnings in ancient Greece in the eighth century B.C.E. through the fourth century C.E., when Christianity was adopted as the state   Read more…
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• Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  02/15/2017

  

  William G. Dever reviews Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City by Amnon Ben-Tor.   Read more…
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• Antioch and Jerusalem

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/16/2016

  

  Paul J. Kosmin reviews “Antioch and Jerusalem: The Seleucids and Maccabees in Coin” by David M. Jacobson.   Read more…
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• The Samaritans: A Profile

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/16/2016

  

  Craig Evans reviews “The Samaritans: A Profile” by Reinhard Pummer.   Read more…
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• The Cities That Built the Bible

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  10/06/2016

  

  Cynthia Shafer-Elliott reviews “The Cities That Built the Bible” by Robert R. Cargill.   Read more…
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• Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/26/2016

  

  Judith M. Hadley reviews “Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective,” edited by Thomas E. Levy, Thomas Schneider and William H.C. Propp.   Read more…
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• The Lost Book of Moses

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/26/2016

  

  Rehav (Buni) Rubin reviews “The Lost Book of Moses” by Chanan Tigay.   Read more…
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• Historical Tour of the Temple Mount

  Reviewed by R. Steven Notley   •  06/29/2016

  

  R. Steven Notley reviews Jerusalem: The Temple Mount by Leen Ritmeyer and Kathleen Ritmeyer.   Read more…
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• The New Bible of Ancient Pottery

  Reviewed by Nava Panitz-Cohen   •  06/29/2016

  

  Nava Panitz-Cohen reviews The Ancient Pottery of Israel and Its Neighbors: From the Iron Age Through the Hellenistic Period (vols. 1 and 2), edited by Seymour Gitin.   Read more…
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• Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  04/08/2016

  

  John D. Currid reviews “Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel” by Jaime L. Waters.   Read more…
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• The Norton Anthology of World Religions

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  04/08/2016

  

  Bruce Chilton reviews “The Norton Anthology of World Religions” edited by Jack Miles, Wendy Doniger, Donald Lopez Jr. and James Robson (vol. 1); and Jack Miles, David Biale, Lawrence Cunningham   Read more…
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• Distant Views of the Holy Land

  Reviewed by Nitza Rosovsky   •  02/12/2016

  

  Nitza Rosovsky reviews “Distant Views of the Holy Land” by Felicity Cobbing and David Jacobson.   Read more…
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