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“Come to our session on Megiddo,” a grinning Israel Finkelstein, director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology and co-director of the renewed excavations at Megiddo, urged me as we chatted at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in Toronto last November. “Lord Allenby will be there.” A magical name indeed. The legendary Edmund Allenby commanded Britain’s Egyptian Expeditionary forces in World War I. On December 11, 1917, the last Turkish troops having fled, then-General Allenby made his official entry into Jerusalem by famously dismounting his horse and, out of respect for Jerusalem, walking […]

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Footnotes

See Eric H. Cline, “In Pharaoh’s Footsteps,” AO 01:02.

On the renewed excavation, see Israel Finkelstein and David Ussishkin, “Back to Megiddo,” BAR 20:01. For the disagreements, see Hershel Shanks, review of Megiddo III—The 1992–1996 Seasons, edited by Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin and Baruch Halpern, BAR, 26:06.

André Lemaire, “Burial Box of James the Brother of Jesus,” BAR 28:06.

See “A Plea For Information,” BAR 03:02 and “Is Withholding Pictures of Archaeological Finds Justifiable?” BAR, 02:07.

See Shlomo Bunimovitz and Avraham Faust, “Ideology in Stone,” BAR, 28:04.