Biblical Archaeology Review

Michael M. Homan, “Beer and Its Drinkers: An Ancient Near Eastern Love Story,” Near Eastern Archaeology 67 (2004), p. 85.

D. Samuel, “Bread Making and Social Interactions at the Amarna Workmen’s Village, Egypt,” World Archaeology 31 (1999), pp. 121–144.

Old Babylonian version, 2.3.6–25 (my translation).

Katz and Voigt, “Bread and Beer.”

Solomon H. Katz and Mary M. Voigt, “Bread and Beer: The Early Use of Cereals in the Human Diet,” Expedition 28:2 (1986), pp. 23–24.

See also Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Frank Houghton, Roberto Macchiarelli and Luca Bondioli, “Skeletal Remains from Punic Carthage Do Not Support Systematic Sacrifice of Infants,” PLoS ONE 5, no. 2 (2010).

The book reviewed is James F. Strange, Thomas R.W. Longstaff and Dennis E. Groh, Excavations at Sepphoris, Volume 1: University of South Florida Probes in the Citadel and Villa (Leiden: Brill, 2006).

The review appeared in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 356 (2009).

For a thoughtful critique of postmodernist and feminist critiques of reason, see Genevieve Lloyd, “Maleness, Metaphor, and the ‘Crisis’ of Reason,” in Louise M. Anthony and Charlotte E. Witt, eds., A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002), pp. 73–89. The conjunction of some postmodernists, feminists, and fundamentalists in this regard is, to put it mildly, ironic.

Ernest W. Saunders, Searching the Scriptures: A History of the Society of Biblical Literature (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982), p. xi.