Biblical Archaeology Review

Mylar tape sample JAB.

These substances were detected by x-ray fluorescence. Lead was detected by the STURP team on the shroud fibers and by Joseph Kohlbeck in Jerusalem limestone samples. Dr. Levi-Setti, however, did not detect lead when he compared the mass spectra of Jerusalem limestone and shroud fibers (see graphs).

Aragonite will form from calcite solutions at 80°–100° F. Formation of aragonite will also occur at lower temperatures when barium, strontium, iron or lead are present. Aragonite can be found in many iron deposits particularly when the iron is present as siderite (iron carbonate).

Body preparation could be carried out in the home as well as at the tomb, but especially in the case of criminals, interment was immediate and preparation was in the tomb.

Montgomery and Gehman, Commentary on Books of Kings, pp. 358–359. They refer also to the works of Rudolf Kittel, Eduard Meyer and Mark Lidzbarski as other commentators who agree with this view.

Albert T. Olmstead, History of Palestine and Syria (New York, 1931), pp. 389–393. A similar view is held by Anton Jirku, Altorientalischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (Leipzig, 1923), p. 163.

John Gray, “The Desert God ‘At\tr in the Literature and Religion of Canaan,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8 (1949), pp. 72–83.

Ze’ev Meshel, “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” BAR 05:02; Meshel and Meyers, “The Name of God in the Wilderness of Zin,” Biblical Archaeologist 39 (1976), pp. 6–10.

Yohanan Aharoni, “Arad,” in Michael Avi-Yonah, ed., Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, I (Jerusalem, 1975), pp. 85–87.

Sylvester J. Saller and Bellarmino Bagatti, The Town of Nebo (Jerusalem, 1949).