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Jul 23 Blog

Asherah and the Asherim: Goddess or Cult Symbol?

Who is Asherah? What is asherah? The reference may be to a particular goddess, a class of goddess or a cult symbol used to represent the goddess. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish what meaning is intended.

Jun 4 Blog

The Tel Dan Inscription: The First Historical Evidence of King David from the Bible

By: BAS Staff

Few modern Biblical archaeology discoveries have attracted as much attention as the Tel Dan inscription—writing on a ninth-century B.C. stone slab (or stela) that furnished the first historical evidence of King David from the Bible.

Jun 6 Blog

Were There Arameans at Abel Beth Maacah?

By: Ellen White

Because of its border location and the Biblical references that associate Arameans with Maacah, Robert Mullins and Nava Panitz-Cohen are digging for Arameans at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel.

May 15 Blog

Who Tells the Truth—the Bible or Archaeology?

By: Marek Dospěl

Is the Hebrew Bible a bunch of tales with no value to a historian? Does archaeology hold the keys to truth instead? What are the limitations of both sources of information? Is it even possible to write a comprehensive and honest history of ancient Israel? Eminent archaeologist William G. Dever attempts to marry archaeology and the Bible.

Jul 29 Blog

The Renewed Excavations at Tel Dan

By: David Ilan, Yifat Thareani and Jonathan Greer

After a four-year hiatus, the Hebrew Union College is back excavating at Tel Dan, the site where the famous Tel Dan inscription—the first extra-Biblical evidence of King David—was discovered.

Aug 12 Blog

From Fire to Einstein

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A Brief History of Humankind at the the Israel Museum features objects that encapsulate the chief developments of human history.

Nov 5 Blog

Meet the House of David at the Met

By: Megan Sauter

Through January 4, 2015, the Tel Dan Stela and other treasures from the ancient Near East are on display in the exhibit Assyria to Iberia at the Met in New York.

Aug 13 Blog

World’s Oldest Masks

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The exhibit Face to Face: The Oldest Masks in the World at the Israel Museum features a dozen masks that date to the pre-pottery Neolithic B period (8300 – 5500 B.C.E.) and come from the Judean Hills and Wilderness.

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