Biblical Archaeology Review

When I get stressed out, I sometimes find myself asking, as did the Biblical prophet Jeremiah (8:22), “Is there no balm in Gilead?”

A. ivory

B. plaster

C. egg shell

D. porcelain

E. limestone

Answer: (C) egg shell

A. Phoenician juicer

B. Israelite shoehorn

C. Babylonian calendar device

D. Egyptian foot measure

E. Cypriot offering bracket

Answer: E) Cypriot offering bracket

A. Yarn spool from Greece

B. Headrest from Egypt

C. Petrified dog biscuit from Pompeii

D. Copper ingot from Edom

E. Loom weight from Ur

After only five hours of deliberation, a New York jury returned a verdict of guilty on 30 of 31 counts against 50-year-old Raphael Golb, son of University of Chicago Dead Sea Scroll scholar Norman Golb. Thus ended Raphael Golb’s three-week trial in which he admitted to originating hundreds of e-mails and blogs, in some of which he used fake accounts to impersonate prominent scroll scholar Lawrence Schiffman of New York University.

A new exhibit of a large treasure trove at Haifa’s National Maritime Museum is offering a glimpse of Canaanite cultic practices that existed when the Israelites arrived in the Holy Land.

Robert Jehu Bull, archaeologist and church historian, died last August at age 92.