Biblical Archaeology Review

Mishnah: (from the Hebrew, to “repeat”) The body of Jewish oral law, specifically the collection of oral laws compiled by Rabbi Judah the Prince in the second century.

Named for the excavation at Tell Balata, ancient Shechem.

Named for archaeologist Leonard Woolley, who excavated at Ur from 1922 to 1934.

Named for archaeologist Darrell Lance, a member of the senior staff at Tell Gezer.

Named for the excavations at Tell Gezer.

In modern archaeological technique, a grid is laid over a plan of the site, forming squares. The dig director then decides which squares to excavate. The squares are usually five meters square and are separated by catwalks, called balks, one meter wide.

The Answers Lie Below: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Edmund Toombs, edited by Henry O. Thompson (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984). A festschrift is a work published in honor of a senior scholar by his or her colleagues and students.

See the following articles by Rachel Hachlili in BAR: “Ancient Burial Customs Preserved in Jericho Hills,” BAR 05:04; “The Saga of the Goliath Family—As Revealed in their Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Tomb,” BAR 09:01, by Rachel Hachlili and Ann Killebrew.

The Philistines and Their Material Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1982), 310 pp., $45.00.

Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land (Jerusalem: Massada Press, Ltd., 1969).