Restore the Roman Temple at Kedesh

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If you want to observe the latest scientific techniques being applied in a live excavation and, five minutes later, experience what it was like to explore the Holy Land in the 19th century, before archaeology touched it and ancient sites simply lay in ruins, then go to Kedesh, in northern Israel, just south of the Lebanese border. In any circumstances, a trip to Kedesh can be jarring. But to add to the unreality, on the day we visited Tel Kedesh this past May, Israeli troops were just leaving Lebanon. We were being shown around by codirectors Sharon Herbert of […]

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Endnotes

See Moshe Fischer, Asher Ovadiah and Israel Roll, “The Roman Temple at Kedesh, Upper Galilee: A Preliminary Study,” Tel Aviv 11 (1984), pp. 146–172; Ovadiah, Fischer and Roll, “The Architectural Design of the Roman Temple at Kedesh,” Eretz Israel 18 (1985), pp. 353–360 (in Hebrew, with English summary on p. 77), “Deity and Cult in the Roman Temple at Kedesh,” in Sepher Ze’ev Vilnay, vol. 2 (Jerusalem, 1987), pp. 168–173 (in Hebrew), “An Inscribed Altar from the Roman Temple at Kedesh (Upper Galilee),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 49 (1982), pp. 155–158, “The Epigraphic Finds from the Roman Temple at Kedesh in the Upper Galilee,” Tel Aviv 13–14 (1986–1987), pp. 60–66.

Jodi Magness, “Some Observations on the Roman Temple at Kedesh,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 40 (1990), pp. 173–181; see also Ovadiah, Roll and Fischer, “The Roman Temple at Kedesh in Upper Galilee: A Response,” IEJ 43 (1993), pp. 60–63.