Jul 28 Blog
By: Glenn J. Corbett
Three thousand years ago, when alphabetic writing had just begun to spread across the masses of the ancient Near East, written words were far more than idle marks meant simply to be read.
Mar 1 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
In “Tales from Tombstones” in the March/April 2012 issue of BAR, two scholars expert in interpreting the gravestone epitaphs and iconography—Professor Steven Fine and Kalliope I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou—provide separate discussions of the Christian and Jewish tombstones of Zoora.
Jul 15 Blog
In this installment of our series on important unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, we look at Jewish incantation bowls inscribed with ancient magic spells in ancient Aramaic script.
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