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Nov 4 Blog

Early Urbanization in Ancient Canaan

Excavators with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered what is likely the oldest temple ever discovered in the Shephelah region of central Israel. Dating […]

Oct 3 Blog

King David’s Judah Found?

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Despite King David’s prominence in the Hebrew Bible, little archaeological evidence has been directly linked to the early years of the Kingdom of Judah. As a result, some scholars have argued that Judah only became a developed polity in the ninth or even eighth century B.C.E. A 2021 study, however, seeks to refute this idea based on the findings of an extensive regional archaeological project in the Judean foothills, the very region where the Bible says David’s kingdom was born.

May 27 Blog

An Early Alphabetic Text from Beth Shemesh

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

An early alphabetic text discovered at Beth Shemesh in central Israel has drawn the attention of Assyriologists and archaeologists for nearly a century. Although the […]

Jul 28 Blog

Gateway to the Underworld?

By: Clinton J. Moyer

Editor’s Note: This blog article contains images of human skeletal remains. An extensive cave just southeast of Beit Shemesh, less than 20 miles west of Jerusalem, […]

Jul 3 Blog

Defending Against Sennacherib at Tel Burna

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

With the looming threat of Sennacherib’s invasion at the very end of the eighth century BCE, the people of Tel Burna, a site located in […]

Jun 30 Blog

How Big Was King David’s Judah?

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Just how big was King David’s Judah? Numerous proposals have been put forward, but it remains a divisive question for archaeologists and biblical scholars alike. […]

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