Biblical Archaeology Review is the flagship publication of the Biblical Archaeology Society. For more than 40 years it has been making the world of archaeology in the lands of the Bible come alive for the interested layperson. Full of vivid images and articles written by leading scholars, this is a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of the ancient Near East.
Although Philip Davies, one of the leading Biblical revisionists, has called this term a “sneering epithet,” Yale University scholar William Hallo has characterized it as “fairly innocuous” (“Biblical History in Its Near Eastern Setting: The Contextual Approach,” in Scripture in Context, ed. Carl D. Evans, William W. Hallo and John B. White [Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick, 1980], p. 3).
See the following BAR articles: “‘Annual Miracle’ Visits Philadelphia,” BAR 22:02; and Hershel Shanks, “New Orleans Gumbo: Plenty of Spice at Annual Meeting,” BAR 23:02.
Cf. an abecedary seal (André Lemaire, “Abécédaires et exercises d’écolier en épigraphie nord-ouest sémitique,” Journal Asiatique [1978], pp. 221–235, esp. 227: RES 925) and a Phoenician inscription from Nebi-Yunis (Bernard Delavault and Lemaire, “Une stèle ‘molk’ de Palestine dédiée à Eshmoun? RES 367 reconsidéré,” Revue biblique 83 [1976], pp. 569–583).
