Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1990
Special Section
What’s a Roman Villa Doing Outside Jerusalem?
Archaeology is full of surprises! For 17 years, I have been investigating what some consider the most unglamorous of sites: ancient farms. I was not looking for, nor did I expect to find, the kind of breathtaking artifacts that tourists ooh-and-aah about in museums. My search was...Read more ›
Did Philip Baptize the Eunuch at Ein Yael?
Acts 8:26–40 recounts the conversion and baptism of the minister of Ethiopia’s Queen Candace by Philip the evangelist: “But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ This...Read more ›
Features
How Ancient Man First Utilized the Rivers in the Desert
In Rivers in the Desert, the famous American archaeologist and rabbi Nelson Glueck reported the results of his archaeological site survey in the Negev Desert from 1952 to 1964. Glueck himself explains the allure that drew him to this work: “A blank space on a historical map...Read more ›
Absorbing Archaeology at the Jerusalem Congress
A congress on Biblical archaeology can’t help but be successful in Jerusalem. The subject seeps from Jerusalem’s stones. And the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, held between June 24 and July 4, 1990, was indeed successful.a Imagine: The festive opening held in the...Read more ›
How to Break a Scholarly Monopoly: The Case of the Gospel of Thomas
BAR has repeatedly urged that photographs of all unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls be published immediately so that—after 35 years—these texts will be available to all scholars.a An American foundation has offered $100,000 to undertake this project.b The scholars who control the texts, however, have firmly rejected this...Read more ›
How I Almost Climbed Cheops’ Pyramid
When I was 15 years old, my hero was Richard Halliburton—a Princeton graduate who in 1922, at age 22, had bummed around the world, visiting such then-exotic places as Ceylon, Tibet and French Indochina. He did the exciting, even the forbidden. He slept overnight...Read more ›
Computers and the Bible
Computers promise to revolutionize how we study the Bible. The last decade has witnessed the development of a variety of Bible-related programs—simple games for children, vocabulary drills for students of Hebrew and Greek, sermon preparation, sophisticated concordances, lectionary software, computer-assisted learning, church management software, multilingual Greek and...Read more ›