David Ussishkin is the author of this month’s cover story, “Answers at Lachish.” In this important and full-scale report, Ussishkin, as Director of the Lachish Excavations Project, lays out the archaeological history of the site and comes up with crucial new conclusions about which strata on the tell should be associated with the Assyrian destruction of Lachish in 701 B.C. His findings have far-reaching implications for the dating of other sites and for dating the common but otherwise enigmatic l’melekh stamp impressions on pottery handles.
Since 1973, Director of the on-going excavations at Lachish, Ussishkin is head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. He spent last year lecturing at the University of Toronto in Canada and serving as Visiting Curator in The Royal Ontario Museum. Much of last year’s research time was spent pulling together many of the conclusions he reaches in “Answers.”
Ussishkin is also the Editor of Tel Aviv, the journal of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology, and a long-standing member of BAR’s Editorial Advisory Board.
More than any other archaeological discovery in the 20th century the Scrolls found in desolate caves on the shores of the Dead Sea have captured the popular imagination. In “Crosses in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Waystation on the Road to the Christian Cross,” Jack Finegan, Professor Emeritus of New Testament History and Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, explores the history of the mark of the cross, its meaning in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the relationship of these crosses to the early use of the cross in Christianity.
Finegan is the author of more than two dozen books on Christian thought and archaeology, (most recently, Archaeological History of the Ancient Middle East, Praeger, 1979). Finegan’s works enjoy a world-wide readership, many of them have been translated into Spanish, German and Japanese. He is a contributor to several encyclopedias and to the Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, and has served as archaeology editor of the Journal of Bible and Religion.
Formerly pastor of University Christian Church, Berkeley, California and First Christian Church, Ames, Iowa, Finegan is a member of BAR’s editorial advisory board.
Danin is a lecturer in botany at Hebrew University. His specialty is the desert vegetation of Israel and Sinai. His 1972 botanical survey of those areas identified 120 previously unknown species.
David Ussishkin is the author of this month’s cover story, “Answers at Lachish.” In this important and full-scale report, Ussishkin, as Director of the Lachish Excavations Project, lays out the archaeological history of the site and comes up with crucial new conclusions about which strata on the tell should be associated with the Assyrian destruction of Lachish in 701 B.C. His findings have far-reaching implications for the dating of other sites and for dating the common but otherwise enigmatic l’melekh stamp impressions on pottery handles. Since 1973, Director of the on-going excavations at Lachish, Ussishkin is head of the […]
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