Biblical Archaeology Review

Translated by Michael D. Coogan.

Others are in Akkadian, Sumerian, Hurrian, Hittite and Cypro-Minoan; there are also some Hittite and Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions.

This work was done by James B. Davis, a graduate student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

For a discussion and picture of the Israelite four-room house, see “The Israelite Occupation of Canaan,” BAR 08:03, by Yohanan Aharoni.

Publication of the Greek Orthodox excavations at Capernaum, east of the Franciscan excavations at the synagogue site, will be under the direction of Dr. Tzaferis assisted by John F. Wilson, Southwest Missouri State University; Ariel Berman, Curator of the Islamic Museum in Jerusalem; Dr. John Laughlin, Averett College; and Dr. Joseph Blenkinsopp, Notre Dame University.

A.H. is the abbreviation for After the Hegira. In 622 A D., Muhammed fled from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution. This journey is called the Hegira and is considered to mark the beginning of the Moslem era.

See “Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?” BAR 08:06.

John F. Benton, Alan R. Gillespie and James M. Soha, “Digital Image-Processing Applied to the Photography of Manuscripts,” Scriptorium, International Review of Manuscript Studies, Vol. 33, 1979, No. 1, pp. 40–55.

“Wadi,” the Arab equivalent of the Hebrew term “nahal” is also rendered as “arroyo” in North America. These terms all refer to the kind of dry riverbed or small river commonly found in desert regions.

See Borowski’s article on his experience at Gezer, “Not All That Glitters is Gold—But Sometimes It Is,” BAR 07:06, which describes the Astarte figurine.