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• Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Interpretation,
  Catholic Biblical Quarterly: April 2005
• Middle Israel: Good morning, King David
  Jpost: August 11, 2005
• Shards of evidence
  Jpost: August 11, 2005
• The Pool of Siloam Revealed
  Bibleplaces.com: August 2005
• Monumental water system of biblical times uncovered by archeologists near Jerusalem
  MFA: August 2005
• Excavations at Tel Kabri Highly Successful
  Tel Aviv: August 2005
• Dig backs biblical account of Philistine city of Gat
  Haaretz: August 9, 2005
• King David's fabled palace: Is this it?
  IHT: August 5, 2005
• The Pool of Siloam Revealed
  BiblePlaces.com
• The Bible within Its Myriad Contexts: The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
  SBL: July 2005
• Timna Valley
  Bibleplaces.com: July 2005
• How old is the Kingdom of Edom?
  Wadiarabahproject: Located June 2005
• Have Jordanian archaeologists found the place Jesus was baptized?
  Daily Star: May 20, 2005
• Response to the Forgeries Issue
  SBL: April 2005
• A Reluctant Israeli Public Grapples With What Scholarship Reveals About the Old Testament's Version of History
  By HAIM WATZMAN: Located April 2005
• Research team recreates ancient underwater concrete technology
  Eurekalert: April 6, 2005
• An ossuary supposedly linked to Jesus was a windfall for a Canadian museum. Now Israel has declared it a fake and jailed its promoter, and the museum has some explaining to do.
  Macleans: March 25, 2005
• Scholar: Archaeology rebuffs effort to erase biblical Israel
  BPNews: March 2, 2005
• The Jerusalem Syndrome in Biblical Archaeology
  SBL: March 2005
• The Probability of Forgeries: Reflections on a Statistical Analysis
  SBL: March 2005
• The Crisis of Modern Epigraphic Forgeries and the Antiquities Market: A Palaeographer Reflects on the Problem and Proposes Protocols for the Field
  SBL: March 2005
• The Forgery Indictments and BAR: Learning From Hindsight
  SBL: March 2005
• The Antiquities Market, Sensationalized Textual Data, and Modern Forgeries: Introduction to the Problem and Synopsis of the 2004 Israeli Indictment
  Sbl: March 2005
• Tomb of Saint Paul Found?
  Discovery: February 22, 2004
• Asherah and the God of the Early Israelites
  Matrifocus: Located February 2005
• Controversial Dates Of Biblical Edom Reassessed
  In Results From New Archeological Research
  UCSDNews: February 17, 2005
• Biblical pseudoarchaeology by a Swedish professor of medicine
  Skeptical Inquirer: Located February 2005
• Archeological work to resume at Acre rescue dig after disturbances
  (Jpost: October 19, 2004)
• Archaeologists find John the Baptist's cave, argue who wrote Dead Sea Scrolls
  (IsraelInsider: August 17, 2004)
• Unearthing the Bible
  (MSNBC News: August 13, 2004))
• Archeology: News from the Field: John The Baptist
  (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs: August 2004)
• Petra: An Eroding Ancient City
  (Geotimes: June 7, 2004)
• Rush to Judgment?
  (ChristianityToday: May 2004)
• NOBTS archaeology proof cited as ‘prominent evangelical scholar’
  (SBC: May 5, 2004)
• Looking for miracles (Bethsaida)
  (Haaretz: May 19, 2004) 
• Fire heavily damages antiquities at Beit She'an National Park
  (Haaretz: March 11, 2004)
• "Archaeometry of a Stone Tablet with Hebrew Inscription Referring to Repair of the House", Geological Survey of Israel Current Research 13 (2003), 109-16.
• Archaeology Vs. The Bible
  (Haim Watzman: Located January 2004)
• Some Archaeological Notes On Deuteronomy
  (By Jeffrey H. Tigay: Located January 2004)
• Biblical tunnel timing
  (Geotimes: November 2003)
• Jerusalem Shroud
  (The Foundation for Biblical Archaeology)
• Antiquities Authority considers trading finds on open market
  (Haaretz: October 6, 2003)
• Jerusalem Tunnel Linked to Bible
  (National Geographic: September 11, 2003)
• One day the letters emerged
  (Haaretz: August 1, 2003)
• Radar sensing can locate and identify buried objects.
  (News Scientist: July 10, 2003)
• Archaeology / When Golan worshipers faced south
  (Haaretz: July 24, 2003)
• Royal Ontario Museum Statement: Oded Golan’s arrest/ James Ossuary?
  (ROM: July 23, 2003)
• What if archaeological finds do not support biblical descriptions?
  (Haaretz: May 29, 2003)
• In the wildcat's pile of stones
  (Haaretz: May 11, 2003)
• Many biblical stories never happened
  (Haaretz: May 8, 2003)
• Minimalists and maximalists in Jerusalem
  (Haaretz: Located April 2003)
• The Debate over the Historicity and Chronology of the United Monarchy in Jerusalem
  (By Ong Kar Khalsa: Located March 2003)
• While archaeological experts determine the authenticity of the ancient Hebrew inscription, the police are quizzing the man who supposedly found it.
  (Haaretz: March 20, 2003)
• A Day in the Life of an Artifact, Part 1
  (ASOR: March 2003)
• A Day in the Life of an Artifact, Part 2
  (ASOR: March 2003)
• Collector's attorney blasts Antiquities Authority
  (Haaretz: March 19, 2003)
• Researcher wants to prove that the Negev's Mount Karkom is really the biblical Mount Sinai.
  (Haaretz: March 14, 2003)
• Israel begins investigation into authenticity of Jesus
  (Haaretz: March 6, 2003)
• The Joash Inscription remains an antique mystery
  (Haaretz; March 5, 2003)
• The Jehoash Inscription
  (Religious Tolerance: February 2003)
• Garbage dump proves just how big Jerusalem was
  (Haaretz: February 11, 2003)
• Have archaeological discoveries like the James ossuary served or obscured the quest to verify the Bible?
  (Christianity Today: February 2003)
• Dating 1 & 2 Kings to the 5th/4th century BCE via
  Archaeological Anomalies and Anachronisms
  (By Walter Mattfeld: Located January 2003)
• Dan Bahat on Jerusalem Archaeology
  (Christianity Today: January 2003)
• Did the nation's most celebrated archaeologist deliberately deceive the public about Masada?
  (Chronicle: December 2002)
• What has archaeology taught us about the origins of Israel?
  (By Bryant G. Wood)
• Three Debates about Bible and Archaeology
  (Biblica: Located December 2002)
• Beth Shemesh
  (Located November 2002)
• Was Ai a ruin the time of the Conquest?
  (BGA: Located October 2002)
• The world's archaeologists don't dig the situation
  (Haaretz: Located September 2002)
• False testament: archaeology refutes the Bible's claim to history.
  (Harper's: Located September 2002)
• Sherds of Evidence
  (Haaretz: January 25, 2002)
• More magnificent than the Temple
  (Ha'aretz: December 11, 2001)
• Digging for treasure
  (Haaretz: October 22, 2001)
• Phantom Wanderers: Two archeologists say the escape from Egypt into Sinai seems highly unlikely
  (BeliefNet: Located October, 2001)
• Fact or Fiction?(Biblical stories)
  (Insight in the News: Located October, 2001)
• Tombs in Jerusalem's Valleys
  (Jewish Magazine: Located September, 2001)
• Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho
  (Ze'ev Herzog: Located July, 2001)
• Violence Puts Archaeologists Between Rocks, Hard Places (Christianity Today: June 27, 2001)
• Ancient synagogues in Bar'am and Capernaum
  (Jewish Magazine: Located June, 2001)
• The mysterious death of Dr Glock
  (Guardian Unlimited: June 2, 2001)
• Bet Guvrin
  (Jewish Magazine: Located May, 2001)
• Jaffa
  (Jewish Magazine: Located May 2001)
• Tel Qasile - Archaeology in Tel Aviv
  (Jewish Magazine: Located April 2001)
• The Tower of David
  (Jewish Magazine: Located: April 2001)
• Jericho
  (Jewish Magazine: Located April, 2001)
• Ashkelon
  (Jewish Magazine: March, 2001)
• Gamla
  (Jewish Magazine: February 4, 2001)
• Beit Shean
  (The Jewish Magazine: January, 2001)
• Bible, Archaeology and Science
  (Jan Gunneweg: Located December 2000)