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.

Biblical Archaeology Review, Winter 2022

Volume48, Number4Table of Contents

Endnote 4 - Magdala’s Mistaken Identity

See Marcela Zapata-Meza et al., “The Magdala Archaeological Project (2010–2012): A Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Migdal,” ’Atiqot 90 (2018), pp. 83–125; Richard Bauckham and Stefano De Luca, “Magdala As We Now Know It,” Early Christianity 6 (2015), pp. 91–118.

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Endnote 2 - Magdala’s Mistaken Identity

See, e.g., Strabo, Geography 16.2.45; Cicero, Letters 12.11; Pliny, Natural History 5.71; Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Titus 4:3; Josephus, Antiquities 14.20; 20.159; War 1.180; 2.252; Life 32.

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Endnote 3 - Magdala’s Mistaken Identity

Although most scholars argue for Taricheae’s location north of Tiberias, others place it south of Tiberias. See, e.g., Nikos Kokkinos, “The Location of Tarichaea: North or South of Tiberias?” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 142 (2010), pp. 7–23.

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Endnote 1 - Magdala’s Mistaken Identity

Some scholars think Taricheae was also known as Magdala already in Roman times, but there is no evidence for this. The identification relies on conflating different rabbinic “Magdalas” and suggesting Taricheae had an unattested different name. See, e.g., Richard Bauckham, ed., Magdala of Galilee: A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Roman Period (Waco, TX: Baylor Univ. Press, 2018), pp. 345–361; Uzi Leibner, Settlements and History in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Galilee, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 127 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009), pp.