Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1999
Features
Excavating Hazor, Part Two: Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City?
A fierce conflagration marked the end of Canaanite Hazor. Across the site, a thick layer of ashes and charred wood—in places 3 feet deep—attests to the intensity of the blaze in the northern Galilee city. Within the walls of Hazor’s palace, the fire was especially fierce: The...Read more ›
Bringing Collectors (and Their Collections) Out of Hiding
At the end of the late Nahman Avigad’s magisterial Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Sealsa appear a number of indices and lists that are not only helpful to scholars but also interesting to thumb through at odd moments. Leafing through the book recently, I came upon one...Read more ›
Tripartite Buildings: Divided Structures Divide Scholars
BAR readers, as well as scholars, have long puzzled over the distinctive tripartite pillared buildings that have been discovered in so many excavations in Israel. Their architecture seems simple enough: long rectangular buildings divided into thirds by two rows of pillars that create a central hall and...Read more ›