Robert R. Cargill - The BAS Library

Robert R. Cargill is the former Editor of Biblical Archaeology Review and Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. His research includes the study of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, literary criticism of the Bible and the Pseudepigrapha, and the ancient Near East. He has excavated at Banias, Omrit, Hazor and Tel Azekah. Bob frequently appears on TV—including the History Channel’s Bible Secrets Revealed and CNN’s Finding Jesus. His most recent book is Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King (Oxford Univ. Press, 2019).

Features

Digs 2019: A Day in the Life

Digs 2018: Migration and Immigration in Ancient Israel

Departments

First Person: And Now for Something Completely Different

First Person: A Magazine, Not a Journal

First Person: Unprovenanced Antiquities: Learning the Hard Way

First Person: What Does Archaeology Say about Effective Peace Treaties?

First Person: Where Is the Real Biblical Bethsaida?

First Person: Introducing the New BAR

First Person: From Shalem to Jerusalem

First Person: The Gender Divide

First Person: Who Owns History?

First Person: Was Pontius Pilate’s Ring Discovered at Herodium?

First Person: A Little Jot on a Jerusalem Column

First Person: Political v. Partisan

First Person: The Importance of Archaeological Provenance

First Person: The American Bible Society’s Electronic Inquisition

First Person: Festschrift: A Celebration of Hershel Shanks

First Person: A New Chapter

Videos

A Deluge of Flood Stories: Flood Mythology, the Bible, and Aronofsky’s Noah

The Origin of Heaven and Hell