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The Four-Room House

The Pool of Siloam Has Been Found, but Where Is the Pool of Siloam?

The Interrupted Search for King David’s Palace

The Lod Mosaic: Jewish, Christian or Pagan?

Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City

Archaeologists on Crutches

Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

Renowned Collector Shlomo Moussaieff Dies at 92

Kadesh-Barnea—In the Bible and on the Ground

Predilections—Is the “Brother of Jesus” Inscription a Forgery?

Predilections—Is the “Brother of Jesus” Inscription a Forgery?

The Saga of ‘The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’

Biblical Archaeology: Whither and Whence

Is It Possible to Protect Our Cultural Heritage?

Commemorating a Covenant

Archaeological High Horse

After Hadrian’s Banishment: Jews in Christian Jerusalem

Was Herod’s Tomb Really Found?

Where Is Mount Sinai?

Will King Hezekiah Be Dislodged from His Tunnel?

Wet-Sift the Megiddo Dumps!

The Persisting Uncertainties of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud

“Brother of Jesus” Inscription Is Authentic!

When Did Ancient Israel Begin?

Fudging with Forgeries

Tainted Stone Oil Lamp Authenticated

Isaiah Among the Scrolls

Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (and Wrongs)

Jerusalem Roundup

“Revolt” Coins Minted on Temple Mount

Queen of the Philistines

The Destruction of Pompeii—God’s Revenge?

Prize Find: Oldest Hebrew Inscription Discovered in Israelite Fort on Philistine Border

“Secret Mark”: Restoring a Dead Scholar’s Reputation

How BAR Was Born

A Tiny Piece of the Puzzle

Inscription Reveals Roots of Maccabean Revolt

Ein Gedi’s Archaeological Riches

Emmaus: Where Christ Appeared

BAR Exclusive! Major New Excavation Planned for Mary Magdalene’s Hometown

Is This Inscription Fake? You Decide

60 Years with the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Mystery Nechushtan

Assyrian Palace Discovered in Ashdod

Magic Incantation Bowls

Where Mary Rested

Qumran—The Pottery Factory

Wrestling with Scripture

The Untouchables: Scholars Fear to Publish Ancient House Shrine

The Siloam Pool

Sifting the Temple Mount Dump

Roundup of Annual Meetings

Radiocarbon Dating

John the Baptist’s Cave???

Yes, Virginia, There IS an American Biblical Archaeology Museum

Contrasting Insights of Biblical Giants

Lying Scholars?

The Seventh Sample

A Tale of Two Meetings

Paleography—An Uncertain Tool in Forgery Detection

What About the Jehoash Inscription?

The Paleographer: Demonstrably a Forgery

The “Three Shekels” and “Widow’s Plea” Ostraca: Real or Fake?

Is It or Isn’t It?

Cracks in James Bone Box Repaired

“Will Marty Abegg Ever Find a Job?”

The History Behind the Bible

Cypriot Land Mines

A “Centrist” at the Center of Controversy

Fakes!

Scrolls, Scripts and Stelae

The Puzzling Channels in Ancient Latrines

Searching for Essenes at Ein Gedi, Not Qumran

Iphigenia & Isaac

Chief Scroll Editor Opens Up—An Interview with Emanuel Tov

After Excavation

Dancing in Denver

Italy’s Top Antiquities Cops Fight Back

Is It or Isn’t It—A Synagogue?

Solomon’s Blessings

The New Struggle for the Scrolls: Will They Go to the Palestinians?

Scholars Talk About How the Field Has Changed

Religious Jews: Save the Bones of Your Ancestors

Holy Targets: Joseph’s Tomb Is Just the Latest

King David: Serial Murderer

Against the Tide: An Interview with Maverick Scholar Cyrus Gordon

The Bad Boy of Historical Jesus Studies

The Missing Millennium in Jerusalem’s Archaeology

2,700-Year-Old Tower Found?

Sacrilegious Neglect

Restore the Roman Temple at Kedesh

Abraham’s Ur—Is the Pope Going to the Wrong Place?

Abraham’s Ur: Is the Pope Going to the Wrong Place?

Everything You Ever Knew About Jerusalem Is Wrong (Well, Almost)

I Climbed Warren’s Shaft (But Joab Never Did)

Come to the Annual (Additional) Meeting

Biran at Ninety

God as Divine Kinsman

The Great MFA Exposé

Bringing Collectors (and Their Collections) Out of Hiding

Friedman’s Thesis: An Overview

A Mickey Mouse Operation

Has David Been Found in Egypt?

San Francisco Tremors

Where Is the Tenth Century?

The Enigma of Qumran

Three Shekels for the Lord

Leading Archaeologist Chastised for Publishing Artifacts in Private Collections

Golden Anniversary of the Scrolls

Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers

The Biblical Minimalists

New Orleans Gumbo

Masada—The Final Reports

The Petra Scrolls

Archaeological Hot Spots

Is the Bible Right After All? BAR Interviews William Dever—Part Two

Death Knell for Israel Archaeology?

Is This Man a Biblical Archaeologist? BAR Interviews William Dever—Part One

Magnificent Obsession: The Private World of an Antiquities Collector

Fingerprint of Jeremiah’s Scribe

“Annual Miracle” Visits Philadelphia

Ferment in Byzantine Studies

A Yearlong Celebration

Scholars Speak Out

A Short History of BAR

Long-Winded in the Windy City

The Honor Due Dead Sea Scroll Scholar Jozef Milik

Sprucing Up for Jerusalem’s 3,000th Anniversary

Is This King David’s Tomb?

MMT as the Maltese Falcon

Archaeology’s Dirty Secret

An Interview with John Strugnell

The Tombs of Silwan

Memorandum Re: Restoring Gezer

Capital Archaeology

Peace, Politics and Archaeology

Archaeological Encyclopedia for the 90s

An Open Letter to John Strugnell and Elisha Qimron

Qimron Obtains Court Order Preventing BAR Editor from Leaving Israel

The Shrine of the Book—Where Nothing Has Changed

The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 2

Qimron Wins Lawsuit

The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 1

An Ancient Israelite House in Egypt?

The Qumran Settlement—Monastery, Villa or Fortress?

The Welcome Mat Is Out … Until You’re Asked to Leave!

The Dangers of Dividing Disciplines

Nahman Avigad, 1905–1992

Not So Up-to-Date in Kansas City

Preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls

What the Monopolists Have Done Right

Team Scholars Working Hard on Dead Sea Scrolls

Is the Vatican Suppressing the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Carbon-14 Tests Substantiate Scroll Dates

Scholars, Popularizers, Albright and Me

Please Return the Siloam Inscription to Jerusalem

Buzz or Button?

Silence, Anti-Semitism and the Scrolls

When 5,613 Scholars Get Together in One Place—The Annual Meeting, 1990

VanderKam Reneges

Absorbing Archaeology at the Jerusalem Congress

How to Break a Scholarly Monopoly: The Case of the Gospel of Thomas

The Difference Between Scholarly Mistakes and Scholarly Concealment: The Case of MMT

Cross and Milik Fail to Meet Deadline in New “Suggested Timetable” for Dead Sea Scroll Completion

Dead Sea Scroll Variation on “Show and Tell”—It’s Called “Tell, But No Show”

Leading Dead Sea Scroll Scholar Denounces Delay

Celebrating at the Annual Meeting

New Hope for the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls

How Are “BAR” and “BAS” Pronounced?

What Should Be Done About the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls?

Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal—Israel’s Department of Antiquities Joins Conspiracy to Keep Scrolls Secret

At Least Publish the Dead Sea Scrolls Timetable!

Dever Stars at Lackluster Annual Meeting

The Meeting Season

Was BAR an Accessory to Highway Robbery?

BAR Interview: Yigal Shiloh—Last Thoughts, Part II

BAR Interview: Yigal Shiloh—Last Thoughts

1987 Annual Meeting in Boston: A Wild, Wonderful Academic Circus

Two Early Israelite Cult Sites Now Questioned

Intrigue and the Scroll—Behind the Scenes of Israel’s Acquisition of the Temple Scroll

Jeremiah’s Scribe and Confidant Speaks from a Hoard of Clay Bullae

BAR Interview: Avraham Biran—Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan

Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?

The Jerusalem Wall That Shouldn’t Be There

Don’t Let Pseudepigrapha Scare You

Dever’s “Sermon on the Mound”

Excavating in the Shadow of the Temple Mount

Ancient Israelite Art Sparse in Impressive Show at Met

BAR Interviews Avraham Eitan

The Religious Message of the Bible

The City of David After Five Years of Digging

Ancient Ivory—The Story of Wealth, Decadence and Beauty

Elie Borowski Seeks a Home for His Collection

The Verdict on Advertisements for Near Eastern Antiquities—Dubitante

Yigael Yadin 1917–1984

Jerusalem Rolls Out Red Carpet for Biblical Archaeology Congress

Synagogue Excavation Reveals Stunning Mosaic of Zodiac and Torah Ark

BAR Interviews Amihai Mazar—A New Generation of Israeli Archaeologists Comes of Age

BAR Becomes Ten!

Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures

Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found at Capernaum

The Sad Case of Tell Gezer

BAR Interviews Yigael Yadin

Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?

In Defense of Hans Goedicke

Mitchell Dahood—In Memoriam

BAR Jr.: On the Surface

Politics at the City of David

Yigal Shiloh Objects to BAR’s Coverage of His Jerusalem Dig

The Exodus and the Crossing of the Red Sea, According to Hans Goedicke

New York Times Misrepresents Major Jerusalem Discovery

Should the Term “Biblical Archaeology” Be Abandoned?

BAR Interviews Giovanni Pettinato

Interview with David Noel Freedman

Syria Tries to Influence Ebla Scholarship

Is Withholding Pictures of Archaeological Finds Justifiable?

Report from Jerusalem

Reading Robert Payne Without Embarrassment

Yigael Yadin Finds a Bama at Beer-Sheva

A Life of Albright

Excavating Anthropoid Coffins in the Gaza Strip

Kathleen Kenyon’s Anti-Zionist Politics—Does It Affect Her Work?

Departments

First Person: My Final “First Person”

First Person: Did the Kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon Actually Exist?

First Person: Should These Looters Go to Jail?

First Person: Was the Dead Sea Scroll Community Celibate?

First Person: Misogyny in the Bible

First Person: Gedenkschrift

First Person: Why Consult Scholarship to Judge “Jesus’ Wife” Fragment?

First Person: BAR Gives Away $50,000

First Person: “Brother of Jesus” Inscription—Authentic or a Forgery?

First Person: A Scepter from the Temple?

First Person: Banning Ba’al

First Person: Jericho and the Bible

First Person: Archaeology in Israel and in Countries to the East

First Person: Is “Bible” a Dirty Word?

First Person: Time Inflation

First Person: What Should We Do with $25,000?

First Person: Life Was Not So Bad for Smelters

First Person: BAR’s 40th Birthday

First Person: A New Target

First Person: Human Sacrifice to an Ammonite God?

First Person: Gold from the Temple?

First Person: Dead Sea Scroll Mystery

First Person: Oded’s Other Ossuary

First Person: Why Did Judas Identify Jesus with a Kiss?

First Person: The Sun God in the Synagogue

ReViews: Handsome Publication Reveals Life in Persian Empire

First Person: Smile! You’re on Camera

First Person: What Brings You Here?

First Person: Old Sherds, New Science

First Person: What to Do with Unprovenanced Artifacts—Publish or Perish?

First Person: Art as Bible Interpretation

First Person: Authentic or Forged? What to Do When Experts Disagree

First Person: Should Israel Return the Tablets of the Law to Egypt?

First Person: LaBianca’s Four Different Kinds of “Past”

First Person: Relics vs. “Real” Archaeology

First Person: Privies and Privacy

First Person: In Praise of Published Excavation Reports

First Person: When Is It OK for an Archaeologist to Speculate?

First Person: The Bible as a Source of Testable Hypotheses

First Person: The Lion and the Flea

First Person: Not the Kindness of Strangers, but the Kindness of Friends

First Person: Ketef Hinnom

First Person: Shakespeare, the Earl of Oxford and Morton Smith

First Person: Temple Mount Repairs Leave Eyesores

First Person: Archaeological Politics—Why Is Israel Different?

First Person: My Sulkha with Shuka

First Person: A “Do-er” Dies

First Person: Funders, Politics and Bias

First Person: Why BAR Publishes Article by Author Indicted for Forgery

First Person: The Palace of Solomon’s Daughter?

First Person: A Radical Proposal

First Person: Grazing the Green Fields of BAR

First Person: Help Me! I’m Desperate!

First Person: BAR—Most Loved and Most Reviled

First Person: In Defense of Eilat Mazar

First Person: Of “Curiosities” and “Relics”

First Person: “The Tomb of Jesus”—My Take

ReViews: 4QSama—The Difficult Life of a Dead Sea Scroll

First Person: Set Apart from the Nations?

ReViews: The Jerusalem the Romans Destroyed

Another View: Could the Edomites Have Wielded an Army to Fight David?

First Person: The Joy of Print

First Person: Jerusalem Forgery Conference

First Person: Indictments Can Kill

Milestones: Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1943–2006)

ReViews: Chicken Feet in Clay

First Person: Covering Controversy

How a Scroll Scholar Went Bad

ReViews: Jesus’ Confession: I Am Not the Physical Son of God

First Person: Sensationalizing Gnostic Christianity

ReViews: Masada Pottery

First Person: Archaeology as Peep Show

Milestones: Jozef Milik (1922–2006)

First Person: Introducing the New BAR

First Person: Probing for “Why?”

First Person: Cites Unseen

First Person: Snap Judgments

First Person: The Gap Between Archaeology and the Bible

First Person: Does IFAR Provide a Model?

First Person: Duke Professor Calls for Public Pressure Against BAR

First Person: Access Denied

Debate: In This Corner: William Dever and Israel Finkelstein Debate the Early History of Israel

First Person: Shuka

Editors’ Page: Losing Iraqi Antiquities For Good

Controversy: Academic Debate Crosses the Line

First Person: Trial by Leak

First Person: Needed: A Protocol to Test Authenticity

First Person: Rumor Mill Goes into High Gear

Editors’ Page: The Enemy of the Good

First Person: Taking It Personally

Review: Why Objects from the Antiquities Market Matter

First Person: Museums Abounding

Editors’ Page: Why Not Work with Salvors?

First Person: Gearing up for Conference Season

Festschrift for Moussaieff

Editors’ Page: Ransoming Iraqi Artifacts

First Person: Israel Antiquities Authority Suspects BAR Editor of Colluding with Forgers

Israel Antiquities Authority Declines Dirty Money

First Person: Off the Map

Editors’ Page: Beyond the Great Sea

Reassessment: Just Another Israelite Village

First Person: Create a Fake and Win $10,000

The Mistress of Stratigraphy Had Clay Feet

Editors’ Page: Looting by Bulldozer

Appreciation: Elie Borowski, 1913–2003

First Person: Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is ASOR

Editors’ Page: Is Silence Golden?

First Person: The Mystery of the Bullae

First Person: The Big Debate

Editors’ Page: Excavating the Deep

First Person: The Anonymous Archaeologist

Destinations: Punic Double Take

Editors Page: Dear Professor Renfrew

First Person: Carrying On Despite the Violence

Editors’ Page: The State of the Profession

Editors’ Page: Images that Offend

First Person: Publishing Every Last Fragment

Editors’ Page: Protecting Archaeological Sites

First Person: Temple Mount Wall in Danger

First Person: Dogged by Controversy

Reviews

Editors’ Page: Defining Ethics

First Person: Assessing “the Situation”

Editors’ Page: Ransom Them!

First Person: Does History Matter?

Editors’ Page: Publish Unprovenanced Artifacts

First Person: Opryland = Orlando2

Editors’ Page: AIA: Senator Moynihan Supports Antiquities Collector as Payoff for Campaign Contributions

Editors’ Page: The Circumference or the Center

First Person: Ushering In the Future at the Shrine of the Book

ReViews

Editors’ Page: Contemporary Resonances

First Person: Antiquities Director Throws BAR for a Loop

Insight

Editors’ Page: Time and Change

First Person: The Poverty of Biblical Archaeology in America

Destinations: City of Marble

Editors’ Page: AIA Does Dallas

First Person: No History in the Bible?

Editors’ Page: Looking Backward

First Person: To SBL: Be a Mentsch

Editors’ Page: Thousands of Cypriot Figurines

First Person: Have You Seen This Seal?

Editors’ Page: Let’s Do What We Can!

First Person: Biting the Hand That Feeds You

Destinations: Kerkouane, Tunisia

Editors’ Page: How to Stop Looting

First Person: When Scholars Call In the Lawyers

Editors’ Page: Why Buy Looted Antiquities?

First Person: Don’t Buy Forgeries

First Person: The Meaning of Unhistory

First Person: Weighing the Evidence

Insight

Editors’ Page: Two Artists in Our Midst

First Person: New Life for an Old Theory

Insight

First Person: Even-Handed to a Fault

Editors’ Page: A Bimonthly It Is!

First Person: Israel’s Archaeological Crisis

Insight

Editors’ Page: Between Scylla and Charybdis

First Person: General Drori in Command

Insight

First Person: Rx for ASOR

Editors’ Page: Come Learn with Us

Editors’ Page: Repatriating Antiquities?

First Person: A Name in Search of a Story

First Person: BibleWorld

First Person: The End of the Paper Trail

First Person: Picasso and Pots

First Person: How to Know More and More About Less and Less

Editorial: The Battle Against Junk “Scholarship”

Editorial: Sell the Dump

Editorial: How to Stop Illegal Excavations

First Person: The Best of the Past

Turkey Goes for the Gold (But Keeps the Stone)

BRiefs

Joseph A. Callaway, 1920–1988

BARview: Pierre Benoit, O.P. 1906–1987

BARview: Tell el-Amarna Conference Grueling but Stimulating

BARview: Israel’s Turn at the Annual Meeting

Scholars’ Corner: New Analysis of the Crucified Man

BARview: The Neusner Phenomenon—Personality and Substance

BARview: Failure to Publish Dead Sea Scrolls Is Leitmotif of New York University Scroll Conference

BARview: Israeli Authorities Now Responsible for Delay in Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls

BARview: Dubitante No More—BAR to Accept Ads for Near Eastern Antiquities

BARview: Neusner Joins Ranks of Superman

BARview: Annual Meetings Offer Intellectual Bazaar and Moments of High Drama

BARview: A Radical Proposal: Archaeologists Should Sell Ancient Artifacts

Harry Thomas Frank, 1933–1980

Samuel Sandmel Dies

Chapters

Aspects of Monotheism

Feminist Approaches to the Bible

The Search for Jesus

The Rise of Ancient Israel

Introduction: Defining the Problem

Defining the Problems: Where We Are in the Debate

Videos

Where Jesus Walked