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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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• The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context

  Reviewed by Ehud Galili   •  02/12/2016

  

  Ehud Galili reviews “The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context” by Shelley Wachsmann.   Read more…
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• The Nag Hammadi Story: Vol. 1 & 2

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/11/2015

  

  Birger A. Pearson reviews The Nag Hammadi Story: Vol. 1 & 2 by James M. Robinson.   Read more…
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• Discovery House Bible Atlas

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/11/2015

  

  Ben Witherington III reviews Discovery House Bible Atlas by John A. Beck.   Read more…
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• Iesus Deus

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  10/02/2015

  

  James D.G. Dunn reviews Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014) by M. David Litwa.   Read more…
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• In the Master’s Steps

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  10/02/2015

  

  Claire Pfann reviews In the Master’s Steps: The Gospels in the Land, The Carta New Testament Atlas, vol. 1 (Jerusalem: Carta, 2014) by R. Steven Notley.   Read more…
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• Archaeology Essentials

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/12/2015

  

  Aren M. Maeir reviews “Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, Practice, 3rd ed.” by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn.   Read more…
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• Mosaics of Faith

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/12/2015

  

  Henry Maguire reviews “Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land” by Rina Talgam.   Read more…
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• Ancient Synagogues—Archaeology and Art

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  06/03/2015

  

  Benjamin D. Gordon reviews “Ancient Synagogues— Archaeology and Art: New Discoveries and Current Research” by Rachel Hachlili.   Read more…
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