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Article Archives - Archaeology
- The Jesus Discovery? A Sceptic’s Perspective
By Raphael Greenberg - The Jesus Discovery? A Sceptic’s Perspective
By Mark Goodacre - The Talpiyot (Jerusalem) Tombs: Some Sober Methodological Reflections on the Epigraphic Materials"
By Christopher A. Rollston - The Tombs at Talpiot: Overview of "The Jesus Discovery"
By James Tabor - 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 - A Future for the Archaeology of Jerusalem
By Raphael Greenberg - A response to Joe Zias in The Bible and Interpretation
By Oded Golan - James and The BAR Crowd - I Cons or just another Amazing Dis-Grace?
By Joe Zias - Archaeology in Israel Update--October 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Yoseh/Yosey – Heavyweight Names at Talpiot
By Eldad Keynan - Archaeology in Israel Update--August 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Archaeology in Israel Update--July 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - The Stone Oil Lamp with the Menorah-After The Verdict
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al - 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 - On the Professional Advancement of Women in Near Eastern Archaeology
By Beth Alpert Nakhai - Do Hundreds of Lachish Letters Await Publication?
By G.M. Grena - Archaeology in Israel Update--June 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - A Brief Note for Yosi Garfinkel
By Philip Davies - What is the Message of “the Patio Tomb” in Talpiot, Jerusalem?
By James Hamilton Charlesworth - Archaeology in Israel Update--May 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - THE JEHOASH INSCRIPTION TABLET-AFTER THE VERDICT
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al - Archaeology in Israel Update--April 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Implications of the “Forgery Trial” Verdict on the Authenticity of the James Ossuary
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al - On Yoseh, Yosi, Joseph, and Judas son of Jesus in Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott - The Hebrew Name “YONAH” Embedded in the Image of the Fish on the Talpiot Tomb Ossuary
By James D. Tabor - Renewed Excavations in Tel Shikmona
By Michael Eisenberg and Shay Bar - Observations on the “Jonah” Iconography on the Ossuary of Talpiot B Tomb
By Antonio Lombatti - The Ossuary of James the Brother of Jesus: From Trial to Truth?
By Paul V.M. Flesher - Archaeology in Israel Update--February/March 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir 1995–2000, 2009–2011
By Bryant G. Wood - A Perfume Flask or a Fish?
By James Tabor - The Idea for the Interpretation of King Herod’s Tomb at Herodium National Park
By Zeev Margalit and Roi Porat - A Preliminary Report of a 1st Century Tomb. (New Version, Photos Added)
By James Tabor - Considering the Rejoinder to LMLK Chronology
By G.M. Grena - Regarding Magness and Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott - Archaeology in Israel Update-- December 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - “The End of Biblical Minimalism?”
By Philip Davies - Archaeology in Israel Update-- November 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - An Archaeometric Analysis of the “Miriam Ossuary” – Zissu and Goren, 2011
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al - 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 - The Shephelah according to the Amarna Letters
By Nadav Na’aman - 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 - Archaeology and the Echo Chamber: Getting the Media to Do Their Job
By Michael Buettner - A Different Tomb in Lower Galilee
By Eldad Keynan - The James Ossuary in Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott - The Connection of the James Ossuary to the Talpiot (Jesus Family Tomb) Ossuaries
By A. Rosenfeld et al - Archaeology in Israel Update-- April 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Where are the Female Dig Directors in Israel?
By Jennie Ebeling - The Authenticity of the James Ossuary and the Jehoash Tablet Inscriptions
By Oded Golan - Archaeology in Israel Update-- March 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Why the fishing town Bethsaida is not found along the shore of the Sea of Galilee
By Fred Strickert - On Archaeology, Forgeries and Public Awareness: The “James Brother of Jesus” Ossuary in Retrospect
By Gideon Avni - Archaeology in Israel Update--January/February 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Archaeology in Israel Update--November/December 2010
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Tel Hazor Excavations: Highlights from Recent Seasons
By Jennie R. Ebeling - Archaeology in Israel Update --October 2010
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - The Persian conquest of Jerusalem (614 CE) - An Archeaologial Assessment
By Gideon Avni - Archaeology in Israel Update - September 2010
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Identifying King David’s Palace: Mazar’s Flawed Reading of the Biblical Text
By Todd Bolen - The Dan Debate
By Hallvard Hagelia - Archaeology in Israel Update - August 2010
By Stephen Gabriel Rsenberg - Archaeology in Israel Update - July 2010
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Masada- Who is a Jew, Secular Fundamentalism, and the Second Coming
By Joe Zias - Response to Zias
By James D. Tabor - Rare Bronze Horned-Bracelet, Not Ancient
By Robert Deutsch - Archaeology in Israel Updates June 2010
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - On the Misuse of Archaeology for Evangelistic Purposes
By Robert R. Cargill - The Temple Mount in Jerusalem During the First Temple Period: An Archaeologist’s View
By David Ussishkin - Orah’s Story
By Jennie R. Ebeling - The Debated Historicity of Hezekiah’s Reform in Light of Historical and Archaeological Research
By Nadav Na'aman - Talpiot Dethroned
By Kevin Kilty with Mark Elliott - Was Jerusalem a Trade Center in the Late Iron Age?
By Juan Manuel Tebes - Some Questions about the Heliodorus Stele
By The Editors - The Talpiot Tomb: What are the Odds?
By Jerry Lutgen - The Garden of Eden
By Eric H. Cline - The Distortion of Archaeology and What We Can Do About It: A Brief Note on Progress Made and Yet To Be Made
By Eric H. Cline - The Making of Stones & Stories: An Introduction to Archaeology & the Bible
By Don C. Benjamin - Authenticity of Ancient Artifacts Indicated by Environmental Dust
By E. Ganor et al - The“Palace of David” Reconsidered in the Light of Earlier Excavations
By Margreet L. Steiner - Seeking the Sacred Past
By Paul V.M. Flesher - Archaeology and National Parks in Jerusalem: Who owns the past?
By Eric M. Meyers - The Final Days of Jesus: What Can Archaeology Tell Us?
By Shimon Gibson - How Should Archaeology Reach its Public?
By Paul Flesher - Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today
By Eric Meyers - H. Shanks, “The Liberator of the Scrolls,” and BAR’s Contribution to Archaeology
By Joe Zias - William Foxwell Albright - A Biographical Memoir
By Thomas Levy and David Noel Freedman - Wily Scholars and Detectives
By Nina Burleigh - Inside the Numbers of the Talpiot Tomb
By Mark Elliott and Kevin Kilty - Archaeometric evidence for the authenticity of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet
By A. Rosenfeld et al - One Man’s Forgery is Another Man’s Antiquity
By L. Alexander Wolfe - Cancel My Subscription
By Philip Davies - Megiddo, Moussaieff, and Me
By Alexander H. Joffe - Reply to Joffe
By Robert Deutsch - Ages of BAR
By Alexander H. Joffe - Biblical Archaeology Review: Friend or Foe?
By Jim West - Mesopotamian Ruins and American Scholars
By Francis Deblauwe - A Short Note on Recent Forgeries
By Joe Cathey - The Fundamentals, Higher Criticism and Archaeology
By Mark Elliott - Responses to the Epigraphic Forgery Crisis
By Christopher A. Rollston and Heather Dana Davis Parker - Should Scholars Authenticate and Publish Unprovenanced Finds?
By Eric Meyers - Jerusalem in the 10th / 9th centuries BC
By Margreet Steiner - Are Fakes So Bad?
By Alexander Joffe - Television Broadcast Was No More Than “Rumor”
By Oded Golan - Israeli Documentary: Antiquities Market Flooded with Forgeries Reviewed
By Rochelle Altman - Qumran archaeology: More grave errors
By Joe Zias - Jerusalem Syndrome in Archaeology
By Yuval Goren - Israel stands accused of destroying archaeological sites.
Dr. Uzi Dahari Responds - “Newark” Ritual Artifacts
By Rochelle Altman - Davidic and Solomonic Tripartite Pillared Buildings
By Jeff Blakely - The Sayce-Driver Controversy
By Mark Elliott - Excavating Jesus
By Jonathan Reed - Women and House Religion
By Elizabeth Willett - The Times and Life of Edward Robinson
By Jay Williams - The Bible Unearthed
By Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
