06/19 | The city of Sidon on the coast of modern Lebanon is mentioned 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Recent excavations have exposed part of the ancient Canaanite—and later Phoenician—city, including Read more…
Posted in The Ancient Near Eastern World.
06/14 | Cynthia Shafer-Elliott reviews “Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective” by Gloria London. Read more…
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04/23 | The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon. Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot Read more…
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The article “True Colors: Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus” by Steven Fine, Peter J. Schertz and Donald H. Sanders in the May/June 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review describes digital scanning conducted on the famed Roman triumphal arch. Watch an exclusive video of the authors’ groundbreaking work.
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For more than a thousand years, the Jews of Cairo would preserve every piece of writing that contained Bible verses or references to God. Some of these treasured scraps are on display in the exhibit Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo at the Cambridge University Library.
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Oliver D. Hoover reviews "Reign and Religion in Palestine: The Use of Sacred Iconography in Jewish Coinage" by Anne Lykke.
