Queries & Comments

By: BAS Staff

Bedwarmer, Bureaucrat, or Both? THE GREAT DIFFICULTY in Daniel Bodi’s “Abishag: Bedwarmer or Bureaucrat?” (BAR, Summer 2024) is that he omitted the most valuable passage […]

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Mysterious Jerusalem Channels I WOULD LIKE to make a small addition to the news piece about the channels recently excavated south of the Temple Mount. […]

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Grateful for BAR I REALLY CHERISH BAR. As a Christian, reading BAR prompts me to look up events/scripture in the Bible. For this alone, I […]

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The Millo THE ARTICLE “The Millo: Jerusalem’s Lost Monument,” by Chris McKinny et al. is excellent and makes a good case for the purpose and […]

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Memorable Maccabees   IN HER ARTICLE “The Rise of the Maccabees,” Andrea Berlin makes a statement that needs a slight clarification. She writes, “The trouble […]

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Don’t Diminish the Bible IN QUERIES AND COMMENTS of your Spring 2023 issue, I noticed what appears to be a growing concern for the intent […]

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The Genesis of Judaism   I WAS SURPRISED, to say the least, with what I learned from Yonatan Adler’s article “The Genesis of Judaism” (Winter […]

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Taking a Sling AS A RETIRED NEUROSURGEON, I read with enthusiasm the article by Boyd Seevers and Victoria Parrott on biblical-era slings (“Taking a Sling: […]

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Pigs Taboo I HAVEN’T READ the book Evolution of a Taboo, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir (Book Review, Spring 2022), but I will add that from […]

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Jesus in Arabia THE BASALT DESERT with its rock inscriptions was and remains, according to Ahmad Al-Jallad (“Jesus in Arabia: Tracing the Spread of Christianity […]