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Article Archives - Archaeology
- 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
