Biblical Archaeology Review

In the statements in Luke 9:23 and 14:27, Jesus is pictured as summoning followers to “take up daily” and “bear” their own crosses, but in each case there is a clear conceptual linkage also to Jesus’ own crucifixion.

Carolyn R. Higginbotham, Egyptianization and Elite Emulation in Ramesside Palestine: Governance and Accommodation on the Imperial Periphery (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), pp. 72, 136ff.

The author wishes to thank Drs. Simone Burger-Robin and Joan Fletcher for their help in dating this statue.

This statue was found with the kind help of Debi Ben-Ami of the IAA.

Simone Burger-Robin, “Analysis, Interpretation and Dating of a Problematic Egyptian Statuary Fragment Discovered in Jerusalem,” in Peter J. James and Peter G. van der Veen, eds., Solomon and Shishak: Current Perspectives from Archaeology, Epigraphy, History and Chronology, Proceedings of the Third BICANE Colloquium Held at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, March 25–26, 2011 (Oxford, in prep.).

See Christoffer Theis and Peter van der Veen, “Some ‘Provenanced’ Egyptian Inscriptions from Jerusalem: A Preliminary Study of Old and New Evidence,” in G. Galil et al., The Ancient Near East in the 12th–10th Century B.C.E.—Culture and History—Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the University of Haifa, 2–5 May, 2010, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 392 (Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2012), pp. 509–523.

They follow styles recently described by Rachel Sparks of University College London; Rachel T. Sparks, Stone Vessels in the Levant, Palestine Exploration Fund Annual VIII (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 2007), esp. pp. 86–87, 217–218, 289 and 306.