Biblical Archaeology Review

Statement to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, “Where Did You Get That? Archaeology, Artifacts, and the Antiquities Trade,” Atlanta, November 22, 2003, based on a statistical study of provenanced and unprovenanced objects.

See “Lying Scholars?” in this issue.

Discovery Channel, James, Brother of Jesus, April 20, 2003.

See Harvard Semitic Museum Newsletter, February 2003.

The falcon, however, is an Egyptian symbol. Sometimes a falcon on these seals wears an Egyptian crown.

Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer, Forty New Ancient West Semitic Inscriptions (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1994); Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer, New Epigraphic Evidence from the Biblical Period (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1995); Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer, Windows to the Past (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1997); Robert Deutsch and André Lemaire, Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 2000).

Robert Deutsch, Messages from the Past; Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Isaiah Through the Destruction of the First Temple (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1999), and Robert Deutsch, “A Hoard of Fifty Hebrew Clay Bullae from the Time of Hezekiah,” in Robert Deutsch, ed., Shlomo: Studies in Epigraphy, Iconography History and Archaeology in Honor of Shlomo Moussaieff (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 2003).

For example, Zimhoni, Studies in the Iron Age Pottery of Israel, pp. 112–118, 169.

Nicholas David, Judy Sterner and Kodzo Gavua, “Why Pots are Decorated,” Current Anthropology, vol. 29 (1988), pp. 365–389.