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Byzantium and Islam
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition Edited by Helen C. Evans with Brandie Ratliff (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012), xx + 332 pp., $35 (paperback) Reviewed by Steven Werlin The...
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Purity Paper Wins Prestigious Prize
Yitzhaq Feder Death, disease and discharge of bodily fluids. What do these have in common? Not only can they be described as “gross” or “creepy,” they can render a person ritually impure according to...
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Solving the Enigma of Petra and the Nabataeans
The Siq is a tortuous half-mile-long canyon that winds its way from the entrance of Petra to the large open plaza at the foot of the Khazneh. Formed through countless millennia of geological activity...
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Did I Find King David’s Palace?
This article was originally published in the January/February 2006 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. In the September/October 2012 issue of BAR, Avraham Faust re-examines Eilat Mazar’s excavations...
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Jesus, Paul and the Gospels
Jesus, Paul and the Gospels By James D.G. Dunn (Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge UK: Eerdmans, 2011), 224 pp., $21 (paperback) Reviewed by Sean Freyne By any standards, the academic output of British...
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Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?: A Response
Back to Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?: A Response In a 1987 issue of BAR, Hershel Shanks1 presented a summary of Amos Kloner’s2 1986 article published in the journal Levant in which...
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The Diggers Return
“The Diggers Return,” published in the January/February 2013 issue of BAR, shares a taste of life in the field. Dig in to our Find a Dig database for resources on dozens of excavation opportunities....
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Alexander to Constantine
Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible (Vol. 3) By Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2012), xv + 392 pp., $40 (hardcover) Reviewed by...
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Le Projet Béthesda (1994–2010)
Le Projet Béthesda (1994–2010): La Piscine Probatique de Jésus à Saladin Proche-Orient Chrétien, Numéro Spécial 2011 200 pp., $20 (softcover) By Claudine Dauphin and Shimon Gibson Reviewed by Urban C....
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Daily Life in Ancient Israel
According to author Robert D. Miller, archaeological surveys and excavations of the central hill country have provided a much clearer picture of daily life in ancient Israel during the time of the...
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