Biblical Archaeology Review

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.

Endnote 1 - Strata: Canaanites and Egyptians in the Lab

Marc Haber et al., “Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences,” The American Journal of Human Genetics 101.2 (2017), pp. 274–282.

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Endnote 1 - Strata: What Is It?

It was published in Luis R. Siddall, “Assyrian Clay Hands from Nimrud in the Australian Institute of Archaeology,” Buried History 52 (2016), pp. 31–34.

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Endnote 1 - Queries & Comments

See “Recovering Josephus: Mason’s History of the Jewish War and the Siege of Masada,” Scripta Classica Israelica, vol. 36 (Ramat Gan, Israel: The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, 2017), pp. 55–65. The referenced quotation appears on p. 60.

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Endnote 1 - Strata: BAR’s Ancient Test Kitchen: Something Sweet from Ancient Rome

Patrick Faas, Around the Roman Table (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 9–10.

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Endnote 2 - Strata: BAR’s Ancient Test Kitchen: Something Sweet from Ancient Rome

Based on John Edwards, Roman Cookery: Elegant Easy Recipes from History’s First Gourmet, rev. ed. (Point Roberts, WA: Hartley Marks, 1986), p. 118.

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Endnote 1 - Archaeological Views: Archaeology, Israelite Cosmology and the Bible

For a detailed discussion of the phenomenon and references, see Avraham Faust, “Doorway Orientation, Settlement Planning and Cosmology in Ancient Israel during Iron Age II,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20.2 (2001), pp. 129–155.

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Endnote 2 - Archaeological Views: Archaeology, Israelite Cosmology and the Bible

See Avraham Faust, “Accessibility, Defense, and Town Planning in Iron Age Israel,” Tel Aviv 29 (2002), pp. 297–317.

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Endnote 2 - Roman Cult, Jewish Rebels Share Jerusalem Cave Site

See Amos Frumkin, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Uri Davidovich, Boaz Langford, Roi Porat, Micka Ullman and Boaz Zissu, “In-situ Dating of Ancient Quarries and the Source of Flowstone (‘Calcite-Alabaster’) Artifacts in the Southern Levant,” Journal of Archaeological Science 41 (2014), pp. 749–758.

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Endnote 4 - Roman Cult, Jewish Rebels Share Jerusalem Cave Site

Porphyry, L’Antre des Nymphes VI.

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Endnote 6 - Roman Cult, Jewish Rebels Share Jerusalem Cave Site

Some of its details are alluded to in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, probably composed in the seventh century B.C.E.

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