Biblical Archaeology Review

See Kenneth Atkinson, “Diggers—From Paid Peasants to Eager Volunteers,” BAR 20:01.

They were given a month’s notice to vacate their offices (though they were to be considered university employees until mid-February of this year), and offered a severance package based on years of service and assistance in finding new jobs.

A tophet is a cemetery containing the remains of ritually sacrificed children. They have been found at several Phoenician sites around the Mediterranean.

See Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel and Ada Yardeni, “Rare DSS Text Mentions King Jonathan,” BAR 20:01.

For a first-hand description of some of the dramatic finds, including a white-robed skeleton, discovered in caves with collapsed ceilings, see Baruch Safrai, “More Scrolls Lie Buried,” BAR 19:01.

See Hershel Shanks, “Excavating Anthropoid Coffins in the Gaza Strip,” BAR 02:01; see also “The Philistines and the Dothans—An Archaeological Romance, Part 2,” BAR 19:05.

See the following BAR articles: “Cache of Hebrew and Phoenician Inscriptions Found in the Desert,” BAR 02:01, and André Lemaire, “Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah?” BAR 10:06.

See Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, “Fifteen Years in Sinai,” BAR 10:04.

See Zvi Greenhut, “Burial Cave of the Caiaphas Family,” BAR 18:05, and Ronny Reich, “Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes,” both in BAR 18:05.