early islam

By: Mary Joan Winn Leith

The Virgin Mary and the prophet Muhammad have a lot in common within their respective Christian and Islamic traditions, according to author Mary Joan Winn Leith.

By: Eilat Mazar

Digging just south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Eilat Mazar uncovered a monumental building from the tenth century B.C.—the right time and the right place for David’s royal residence.

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Mary Joan Winn Leith reviews The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology, edited by Paul Corby Finney.

By: Megan Sauter

For the “Dig” 2015 issue, we checked in with individuals featured on the cover of past “Dig” issues as well as former BAS scholarship recipients.

By: James Riley Strange

Shikhin Excavation Project director James Riley Strange discusses the importance of the site of Shikhin, an ancient village in Jewish Galilee. Shikhin was an important Roman pottery production center closely tied to its larger neighbor, Sepphoris.

By: Steve Renette, André Tomé and Ricardo Cabral

In a web-exclusive report, the directors of the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project describe the preliminary results of the first systematic investigation in Iraqi Kurdistan of an Early Bronze Age site.

By: Noah Wiener

On Sunday, June 1, 2014, Matthew J. Adams was appointed Dorot Director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, replacing Tel-Miqne/Ekron archaeologist Seymour (Sy) Gitin, who retired after directing the prestigious Jerusalem institute for the past 34 years.

By: Meir Ben-Dov

Byzantine Jerusalem was Christian Jerusalem—par excellence. The Byzantine era began when the Emperor Constantine—soon to convert to Christianity—became master of Palestine in 324 A.D. It did not end in Jerusalem until the Patriarch Sophronius surrendered the city to the Moslem caliph Omar in the spring of 638.

By: Reviewed by Shimon Gibson

Shimon Gibson reviews "The Walls of the Temple Mount (2 vols.)" by Eilat Mazar (with Y. Shalev, P. Reuven, J. Steinberg and B. Balogh).

By: Reviewed by Steven Werlin

Steven Werlin reviews "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", edited by Helen C. Evans with Brandie Ratliff.