You are hereHomeBARMay/June 1994What’s a Bamah? How Sacred Space Functioned in Ancient Israel Y. Aharoni, Tel Beersheba, Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, 4 vols., ed. Michael Avi-Yonah (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975), vol. 1, p. 126. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.