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Feb 7 Blog

Puzzling Finds from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud

“Yahweh and his Asherah” is written across the top of this eighth-century B.C. drawing on a ceramic pithos from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud in the eastern Sinai. Some scholars have theorized that these figures resembling the Egyptian god Bes are in fact a drawing of God and his consort.

Ta’anach Cult Stand. Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Israel Antiquities Authority (photograph by Avraham Hay)

Jan 20 Blog

Asherah and the Asherim: Goddess or Cult Symbol?

By: Ellen White

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.

Dec 12 Blog

Hezekiah’s Religious Reform—In the Bible and Archaeology

By: David Rafael Moulis

According to the Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah “removed the high places, broke down the pillars and cut down the sacred pole” (2 Kings 18:4). What was Hezekiah’s religious reform like on the ground, and what were his motives?

Oct 3 Blog

Archaeological Views: Pottery in the Computer Age

By: Andrea Berlin

Archaeologist Andrea Berlin describes the Levantine Ceramics Project, an open-access, crowd-sourced public website devoted to ceramics produced anywhere in the Levant from the Neolithic era (c. 5500 B.C.E.) through the time of Ottoman rule (c. 1920 C.E.).

Feb 26 Blog

Canaanite Worship? 3,400-Year-Old Figurine Found at Tel Rehov

By: Robin Ngo

A seven-year-old child found a figurine that may have been associated with Canaanite worship while visiting the site of Tel Rehov in Israel.

Jan 5 Blog

Judean Pillar Figurines

By: Robin Ngo

In “JPFs: More Questions than Answers” in the September/October 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Robert Deutsch provides an overview of Judean pillar figurines.

Feb 6 Blog

Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Joan R. Branham reviews "Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art" by Lee I. Levine.

Jan 10 Blog

Idols of the People

By: Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

Victor Avigdor Hurowitz reviews "Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East" by P.R.S. Moorey.

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