After 20 years of publishing a magazine on Biblical archaeology, we decided it was time to ask some fundamental questions about the field: What is Biblical archaeology’s greatest achievement? Its greatest failure? What is its greatest challenge? In “Scholars Speak Out,” fourteen archaeologists and Bible scholars respond by examining past triumphs and flops, and sketching their goals for the future. We trust that their success in meeting these challenges will furnish us with at least another 20 years’ worth of BAR articles. Our anniversary leads naturally to another query: What are the top ten discoveries in Biblical archaeology? Is […]