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Ze’ev Meshel Joins BAR Board

With great pleasure BAR welcomes the distinguished Israeli archaeologist, Ze’ev Meshel, to the Editorial Advisory Board. Meshel, an assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, is well-known for his work at Kuntillet Ajrud. In that early eighth century B.C. Judean outpost in the Sinai desert Meshel found a treasure of Hebrew and Phoenician religious inscriptions and drawings. His article “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” BAR 05:02, detailed and illustrated the rich and extraordinary material found at the remote desert waystation.

Meshel, a recent research fellow at Harvard University, has also examined the pottery collection excavated by Nelson Glueck fifty years ago at Tell el-Kheleifeh, a site Glueck believed was Biblical Ezion-Geber, the port of Solomon.