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.
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On his knees, a silver bull holds a spouted vessel. His bovine head and neck end at human-like shoulders that taper into cloven hooves. A jig-saw design decorates the skirted legs of this six-inch silver figurine that was found near Susa in Southwestern Iran.
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Past Perfect: Pottery in Motion
Scholar’s Bookshelf
ReViews
Although the Hebrew Bible is the best-known text from the Jewish past, Jews wrote far more literature than the books that now constitute the Bible. A significant portion of this additional material has survived. And more has been discovered in the past century or so.
ReViews: Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Writings
The answer should be clear. Why isn’t it?
Another View: Small City, Few People
Professor David Ussishkin claims that the city wall of Jerusalem built by the exiles returning from Babylon, as described in the book of Nehemiah, enclosed an enormous area co-extensive with the city wall that enclosed Jerusalem when the Babylonians conquered and burned it in 586 B.C.E. (“Big City, Few People: Jerusalem in the Persian Period,” BAR 31:04). Ussishkin is plainly wrong.
Archaeological Views: Question Authority!
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