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.

Strata: A Tree Grows in the Desert

When Sarah Sallon, director of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Center in Jerusalem, asked Bar-Ilan University archaeologists for some of the date palm seeds they found 30 years ago during excavations of Herod’s palace at Masada, they thought she was crazy. Everyone, including Sallon herself, considered the likelihood of germinating a 2,000-year-old seed to be very remote, if not impossible.

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Strata: Dig Scholarship Winners

NAME	SCHOOL	DIG SITE	DIRECTOR
Thomas E. Brown	Austin Graduate School of Theology	Tamar	Tali Erickson, R. Mark Shipp, Craig Bowman
Nathan J.P.S. Burch	Brown University	Apollonia-Arsuf	Israel Roll, Oren Tal, Katharina Galor

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Strata: Dig Scholarship Donors

BAR is deeply grateful to these donors who have supported our dig scholarship program:

George Blumenthal

The Gertrude and Harry Schwartz Foundation for Judaism

Eugene and Emily Grant

John and Carol Merrill

Jonathan Rosen

Richard and Joan Sheuer

Michael and Judy Steinhardt

Samuel Turner, Esq.

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Strata: BAR Scholarships Will Send Diggers to Israel

For the past several years, BAR has awarded three dig scholarships to help volunteers go to Israel and participate in archaeological excavations. This year we received an unprecedented number of

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Strata: Where Is It?

Michelangelo’s Pietà is surely one of the most moving and most famous sculptures ever created by man, depicting—as it does with infinite sadness—Jesus’ mother Mary cradling the lifeless body of her crucified son.