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Mar 18 Blog

Site-Seeing: Surprising Susa

By: Todd Bolen

Even for the intrepid traveler who tours Iran, the ancient Persian capital of Susa often gets left off the itinerary.

Dec 5 Blog

Excavating the Bible—A Response

By: Yitzhak Meitlis

In the September/October 2014 issue of BAR, Itzhaq Shai reviewed Yitzhak Meitlis’s book Excavating the Bible (Eshel Books, 2012). Here, Meitlis responds to Shai’s review.

Jul 25 eBook

Israel: An Archaeological Journey

By: BAS Admin

As the point where three of the world’s major religions converge, the history of ancient Israel is one of the richest and most complex in the world. This journey into archaeology, Israel and the Biblical world is free on the Bible History Daily website.

Jul 2 Blog

Divided Kingdom, United Critics

By: Reviews by William G. Dever and Aaron Burke

The Forgotten Kingdom by Israel Finkelstein traces the development of the northern kingdom of Israel to an earlier time associated with the reign of King Saul. The award-winning work is critically and independently reviewed by William G. Dever and Aaron Burke.

Oct 18 Blog

The End of an Era

By: Hershel Shanks

We knew it would happen, but it’s still a shock. Frank Cross is dead. I will leave it to scholars to write of his scholarly accomplishments. I will write only of what I know: He stood at the very pinnacle of the profession, universally respected and admired. When he spoke, others stood in awe. The Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, the third oldest endowed academic chair in the United States, Cross was a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in obscure ancient languages, in the science of dating ancient inscriptions based on shape of the letters, in the Biblical text and in archaeology, to name but a few.

Dec 27 Blog

What Do Archaeologists Do With the Bible?

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

In the July/August 2011 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Hershel Shanks’s First Person dealt with Ronny Reich’s new book, Excavating the City of David. In Reich’s book he commented on Eilat Mazar’s excavations, also in the City of David, where she claims to have found King David’s palace. Reich objected to Mazar’s archaeology methods and questionable use of archaeology and the Bible--predicting that she would find David’s palace and then conducting an excavation in which she claimed to have located exactly what she set out to find.

Jul 17 Blog

How Should We Study Ancient Israelite Religion?

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Few Biblical scholars carry as much weight as does Frank Moore Cross, author of the following article, “The History of Israelite Religion: A Secular or Theological Subject?,” in which he says that anyone wanting to study the history of ancient Israelite religion should view the enterprise through the lens of history rather than theology.

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