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  • The Jesus Discovery? A Sceptic’s Perspective
    By Raphael Greenberg

  • A Future for the Archaeology of Jerusalem
    By Raphael Greenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update—March 2013
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--February 2013
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeological Park & Museum: Durch die Zeiten
    By Dieter Vieweger


  • Archaeology in Israel Update--December 2012
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--August 2012
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--July 2012
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Jezreel Expedition Update July 2012
    By Jennie Ebeling and Norma Franklin

  • The Huqoq Synagogue Mosaics
    By Paul V.M. Flesher

  • Rejoinder to Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor
    By Rami Arav

  • A Reply to R. Arav’s Review of Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 1
    By Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor

  • Data, Paradigms and Paradigm-Collapse Trauma: from Biblical Archaeology to Brutal Biblical Archaeology
    By Yosef Garfinkel

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--June 2012
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--April 2012
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--February/March 2012
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • The Idea for the Interpretation of King Herod’s Tomb at Herodium National Park
    By Zeev Margalit and Roi Porat

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- December 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- November 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Caesarea Maritima
    By Joseph Patrich

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--September 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- August 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- July 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • A Stone Oil Lamp with Seven Nozzles Carved with Jewish Symbols from the Late Second Temple Period.
    By Amnon Rosenfeld et al

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- May/June 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • A Different Tomb in Lower Galilee
    By Eldad Keynan

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- April 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Hercules Rises from the Bathhouse in Sussita
    By Arthur Segal and Michael Eisenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update-- March 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--January/February 2011
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Tel Dor Excavations

  • Archaeology in Israel Update--November/December 2010
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Update on Mt. Zion
    By James D. Tabor

  • Tel Hazor Excavations: Highlights from Recent Seasons
    By Jennie R. Ebeling

  • Archaeology in Israel Update --October 2010
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update - September 2010
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Update - August 2010
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • An Ignored Contradiction between the Merneptah Stele and Archaeological Data
    By Todd Bolen

  • Rare Bronze Horned-Bracelet, Not Ancient
    By Robert Deutsch

  • Archaeology in Israel Updates July 2010
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • Archaeology in Israel Updates June 2010
    By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

  • The Temple Mount in Jerusalem During the First Temple Period: An Archaeologist's View
    By David Ussishkin

  • The Debated Historicity of Hezekiah?s Reform in Light of Historical and Archaeological Research
    By Nadav Na'aman

  • Was Jerusalem a Trade Center in the Late Iron Age?
    By Juan Manuel Tebes

  • Three figurines of Aphrodite, goddess of love, hidden during the Roman Era, discovered in Hippos (Sussita)

  • The "Palace of David" Reconsidered in the Light of Earlier Excavations
    By Margreet L. Steiner

  • The Fortress at Qumran: A History of Interpretation
    By Robert R. Cargill

  • How Should Archaeology Reach its Public?
    By Paul Flesher

  • William Foxwell Albright - A Biographical Memoir
    By Thomas Levy and David Noel Freedman

  • Three Notes on Qumran
    By David Stacey

  • Petra and the Bible
    By Philip Hammond

  • Iraq
    By American Schools of Oriental Research

  • Qumran in the Light of Recent Publications
    By David Stacey

  • Where Is Mount Sinai?
    By Emmanuel Anati

  • Shank's Assertions are Simply Incorrect and Mis-leading
    By Yuval Goren

  • Updates on the Ossuary of Ya'acob bar Yosef and the Temple Tablet
    By Rochelle Altman

  • Report on the Temple Tablet
    By Rochelle Altman

  • The Inscription Attributed to Jehoash, King of Judah
    By Yuval Goren

  • Professor Yuval Goren an alternative interpretation for the data obtained by the GSI scientists-- Joash inscription is almost certainly a forgery
    By Yuval Goren

  • The Bethsaida Excavations Project
    (Link to the BethSaida Site)

  • Was There a Synagogue in Hasmonian Jericho?
    By David Stacey

  • A Synagogue from the Hasmonian Period Exposed at Jericho
    By Ehud Netzer

  • Ben-Yehuda unearths the myth of Masada
    by Nachman Ben-Yehuda

  • Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Hazor
    By Dr. Jennie R. Ebeling

  • Tell es-Safi/Gath
    By Aren M. Maeir

  • Scholar gives archaeological evidence of Jesus' ministry in the evangelical triangle
    By Prof. Rami Arav

  • James F. Strange on Sepphoris
    By James Strange

  • Special Report on Excavating Herodian Palaces in Jerusalem
    By Jacqueline Schaalje

    • Excavation Reports

    2011 Season

  • Renewed Excavations in Tel Shikmona
    By Michael Eisenberg and Shay Bar

  • Excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir 1995–2000, 2009–2011
    By Bryant G. Wood

    • 2010 Season

  • The Tel Burna - First Season of Excavation, 2010

  • Tel Dor Excavations

  • Tiberias in the Early Ismamic Period - A Multi-Cultural Society
    By Katia Cytryn-Silverman

  • Tell Halif
    By Oded Borowski

    • 2009 Season

  • Kabri 2009 Excavations (PDF File)

  • Biblical Tamar: Excavations 2005-2009 (PDF File)
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  • Report on the Mount Zion Excavations 2009

    • 2008 Season

  • Bethsaida 2008 Excavations Report (PDF File)
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  • Report on the Mount Zion Excavations 2008

  • Preliminary Results of the 2005-2008 Seasons at Tel Kabri, Israel

  • Tel Dor 2008 Report

  • The Tell es-Safi/Gath

    • 2004 Season

  • The Tell es-Safi/Gath

    • 2003 Season

  • Bethsaida, 2003 Season

  • Excavations at Abila of the Decapolis, Northern Jordan

  • Excavation at Biblical Tamar Park 2003

  • Fourth Season at Hippos (Sussita)

    • 2002 Season

  • Kursi Excavations 2002 Report

  • Third Season at Hippos (Sussita)

  • Caesarea Maritima

  • The Tell es-Safi/Gath

    • 2001 Season

  • Second Season at Hippos (Sussita)

  • Bethsaida, 2001 Season
    Excavation of Iron Age gate area reveals outer city gate.

  • Hisban Excavation 2001 Season

  • Kursi Excavations 2001 Report
    Excavation reveals bath complex at Byzantine monastery.

    • 2000 Season

  • Beth Shemesh excavation: Summer, 2000

  • Halutza, Summer 2000

  • First Season at Hippos (Sussita)

  • Kursi Excavations 2000 Report

  • Tel Tanninim

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