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By Hershel Shanks

Megiddo III—The 1992–1996 Seasons

Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin and Baruch Halpern, Editors
(Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2000) 2 vol., 347 maps, drawings and b&w photos, 629 pp., $95.00 (hardback)

The publication of Megiddo III is an event. It is not, as one might suppose from the title, the third volume to be published on the current excavations at Megiddo, but rather the first. The volume number is based on the fact that more than half a century ago the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute published Megiddo I and Megiddo II, which cover its own excavation of the site in the 1920s and 1930s.a Megiddo III is the first report from Tel Aviv University’s renewed excavation of the site, led by Israel Finkelstein and David Ussishkin. Just to complicate […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Dan Bahat, “Does the Holy Sepulchre Church Mark the Burial of Jesus?” BAR 12:03.

2.

Magen Broshi, “Evidence of Earlier Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Comes to Light in the Holy Sepulchre Church,” BAR 03:04.

3.

The reading suggested by author John Wilkinson appears to me to be clearly wrong. He would read DDM.NOMIMUS. But the IV cannot be M. The letter I clearly follows the M. The letter following D cannot be D; on the contrary, it must be O. See Wilkinson, “The Inscription on the Jerusalem Ship Drawing,” PEQ 127 (1995).

4.

Reviewed in Books in Brief, BAR 13:03.

5.

See Bryant G. Wood, “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho?” BAR 16:02; Piotr Bienkowski, “Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not in the Late Bronze Age,” BAR 16:05 and Wood, “Dating Jericho’s Destruction: Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts,” BAR 16:05.

Endnotes

1.

F.M. Cross, “The Development of the Jewish Scripts,” in The Bible and Ancient Near East, ed. by G.E. Wright (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961).

2.

P.R.S. Moorey,

3.

Naomi Shepherd, The Zealous Intruders (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987).

4.

For an overview of the survey, see Philip Mayerson, “Some Observations on the Negev Archaeological Survey,” Israel Exploration Journal 46 (1996), pp. 100–107.

5.

Diane Favro, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996).

6.

Josephus, The Jewish War 1.165–167; Jewish Antiquities 14.87 89.