Footnote 1 - Early Copy of the Ten Commandments Auctioned
Hershel Shanks, "Yes, Virginia, There IS an American Biblical Archaeology Museum," BAR, 30:06.
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 3 - Strata: BAR Test Kitchen: Eat Like an Ancient Babylonian
Jean Bottéro, The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 125–126.
Endnote 2 - Strata: BAR Test Kitchen: Eat Like an Ancient Babylonian
Jean Bottéro believes that samīdu and šuḫutinnū—two of the ingredients we omitted—were “probably in the onion family.” See Bottéro, “The Cuisine,” p. 42.
Endnote 1 - Strata: BAR Test Kitchen: Eat Like an Ancient Babylonian
Jean Bottéro, “The Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia,” The Biblical Archaeologist 48.1 (March 1985), p. 42.
Footnote 1 - The Third Wall of Jerusalem
See Hershel Shanks, "The Jerusalem Wall That Shouldn’t Be There," BAR, 13:03.
Endnote 3 - Biblical Views: Biblical Scholarship at Risk
This is the original wording of the website. It has recently been changed to “advanc[ing] a radical agenda in lecture halls.”
Endnote 2 - Biblical Views: Biblical Scholarship at Risk
Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? 2nd ed. (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 21.
Endnote 1 - Biblical Views: Biblical Scholarship at Risk
Ronald Hendel, Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2016).
The Unique Base on the Menorah of the Arch of Titus
Biblical descriptions of the menorah in the Tabernacle and Temple have much to say about its seven branches and their floral decoration (see, e.g., Exodus 25:31—40). The Hebrew Bible is silent, however, about the base. Filling this void, artisans during the latter Second Temple period made images of menorahs with triangular and rectangular bases—and even with no base at all.
Footnote 1 - Biblical Views: Biblical Scholarship at Risk
See Richard Elliott Friedman, “Taking the Biblical Text Apart,” Bible Review, Fall 2005; Richard Elliott Friedman, “Ancient Biblical Interpreters vs. Archaeology & Modern Scholars,” BAR, 34:01.
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