Thank you to all those who submitted caption entries for our Summer 2020 cartoon, based on Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities 15.380 (15.11.1): “And now Herod, in the eighteenth year of his reign, and after the acts already mentioned, undertook a very great work, that is, to build of himself the temple of God, and make it larger in compass, and to raise it to a most magnificent altitude, as esteeming it to be the most glorious of all his actions, as it really was, to bring it to perfection, and that this would be sufficient for an everlasting memorial of him.” We are pleased to congratulate Frank Walsh of Plano, Texas, who wrote the winning caption, and our runners-up:
RUNNERS UP
“There is no way we can build this as big as Herod’s ego!”
—Larry E. Jones, Litchfield, Minnesota
“Will the worship be streamed live?”
—Rajan Al Bikaadi, Adelaide City, SA, Australia
HONORABLE MENTIONS
“Now that’s a fixer upper.”
—Jeffrey Harrison Wagner, Folsom, California
“No, No, No! The furnace was supposed to be built inside the temple!”
—Dennis Roberts, Urbana, Illinois
For additional caption entries for this month’s featured cartoon, staff captions, and past cartoons and captions, visit biblicalarchaeology.org/captioncontest
Write a caption for the cartoon based on Joshua 3:14-17 and send it to us via our website at biblicalarchaeology.org/captioncontest or mail at:
BAR Cartoon Caption Contest
Biblical Archaeology Society
4710 41st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Be sure to include your name and address. The deadline for entries is February 28, 2021. The author of the winning caption will receive a BAS All-Access membership and three gift subscriptions to give BAR to friends. Runners-up will receive an All-Access membership and two gift subscriptions for friends.
“Herod’s having another of his Temple Tantrums!”
—Frank Walsh, Plano, Texas
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