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• City of David: Then and Now
  Bibleplaces.com: August 2005
• A Royal Dignitary - Or a "Royal" Disappointment? Who's Who in Biblical Texts and Ancient Inscriptions
  (SBL: July 2004)
• Death Formulae and the Burial Place of the Kings of the House of David
  (Biblica: 2004)
• The Passionate Woman Who Wrote 'Song of Songs'
  (Beliefnet: June 2004)
• Play it again, Samson
  (Haaretz: April 7, 2004)
• Transferring Biblical Narrative to Graphic Novel
  (SBL: April 2004)
• The Editorial Team Behind the Bible
  (Beliefnet: February 2004)
• The Dual Redaction Hypothesis In Kings
  (Richard D. Nelson)
• Refining the theory of the Conquest Before it is too Late
  (Biblical Studies: Located May 2003)
• The Roots Of Restriction:Women In Early Israel
  (By Carol Meyers: Located February 2003)
• The Exodus Traditions (Their pre-biblical backgrounds)
  (By Walter Mattfeld: Located March 2003)
• An Unnamed Woman: The Extravagance of Violence Judges 19:1-30
  (Phyllis Trible: Located January 2003)
• History - or hallucination? The Temple Tablet
  (Haaretz: January 14, 2003)
• There is nothing else like it The Temple Tablet
  (Haaretz: January 16, 2003)
• Romancing the stone
  (Haaretz: January 17, 2003)
• Jehoash tablet said found near Muslim cemetery
  (Haaretz: January 17, 2003)
• Ten Themes Of The Deuteronomistic History
  (M. Weinfeld)
• Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
  (By Phyllis Trible)
• How Reliable Is Exodus?
  (Allen Millard)
• The book of Isaiah makes for great literature--
  but it doesn't foretell the coming of Christ.
  (BeliefNet: December 2002)
• Reading Genesis
  (Judaism: Located February, 2002)
• Trauma and Abstract Monotheism
  (Judaism: Located February, 2002)
• The Roots of Restriction: Women in Early Israel, by Carol Meyers
  (Located: January , 2002)
• Studying Torah: Commentary, Interpretation, Translation. (Judaism: Located January, 2002)
• The Two Tels: Armageddon For Biblical Archaeology?
  (Megiddo Expedition: Located February, 2002)
• Noah's Flood
  (The Smithsonian: Located January, 2002)
• Did Noah's Flood Really Happen?
  (BeliefNet: October 16, 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)
• On Reading the Bible for History by T. L. Thompson
  (Journal of Biblical Studies: Located September, 2001)
• Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho
  (Ze'ev Herzog: Located July, 2001)
• If the Exodus did not occur, there is no Judaism
  (Jewish World Review: April 23, 2001)
• On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History [1]
  (Niels Peter Lemche: Located March, 2001)
• King David was a nebbish
  (Salon: February 7,2001)
• The Rise and Fall of the Daily Office: Structured daily prayers can be traced back to the times of David
  and Daniel
  (Christianity Today: December 29, 2000)
• Down with History, Up with Reading: The Current State of Biblical Studies
  (G. Rendsburg, McGill
  Lectures: November, 2000)
• Moses at the Millennium
  (A. J. Wolf: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought: January, 2000)