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Further Reading:
Canaan/Canaanites
Defining the Problems: Where We Are in the Debate (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
Was King Saul Impaled on the Wall of Beth Shean? ( BAR 38:02, Mar/Apr 2012)
From Vespa to Ashkelon ( BAR 36:04, Jul/Aug 2010)
How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs ( BAR 36:02, Mar/Apr 2010)
Biblical Views: Giants at Jericho ( BAR 35:02, Mar/Apr 2009)
Strata: In Their Own Words ( BAR 35:02, Mar/Apr 2009)
The Trowel vs. the Text ( BAR 35:01, Jan/Feb 2009)
Twins: A Dangerous Pregnancy ( BAR 35:01, Jan/Feb 2009)
Biblical Views: How a People Forms ( BAR 32:03, May/Jun 2006)
Where Is the Hazor Archive Buried? ( BAR 32:02, Mar/Apr 2006)
Mysterious Standing Stones ( BAR 32:02, Mar/Apr 2006)
Your Career Is in Ruins ( BAR 32:01, Jan/Feb 2006)
ReViews ( BAR 30:05, Sep/Oct 2004)
How Did the Philistines Get to Canaan? Two: by Land ( BAR 29:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
Israelites and Canaanites ( BAR 28:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
Readers Reply ( BR 17:06, Dec 2001)
Reversal of Fortune ( BR 17:04, Aug 2001)
Strata ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Save Us from Postmodern Malarkey ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Will Tel Rehov Save the United Monarchy? ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:05, Sep/Oct 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
Excavating Hazor, Part Two: Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City? ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
The Forum ( AO 2:02, May/Jun 1999)
Excavating Hazor, Part One: Solomon’s City Rises from the Ashes ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Light at the End of the Tunnel ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
First Person: Even-Handed to a Fault ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Strata ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Cultural Crossroads ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Discovering a Goddess ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
“This is the Taste of Death” ( AO 1:04, Fall 1998)
The Egyptianizing of Canaan ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Strata ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Picturing Imageless Deities ( BAR 23:03, May/Jun 1997)
Who the Devil is Beelzebul? ( BR 13:01, Feb 1997)
Is the Bible Right After All? BAR Interviews William Dever—Part Two ( BAR 22:05, Sep/Oct 1996)
Glossary ( BR 9:03, Jun 1993)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
The Many Masters of Dor, Part 1: When Canaanites Became Phoenician Sailors ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Part III: How the Alphabet Democratized Civilization ( BR 8:06, Dec 1992)
How Did the Philistines Enter Canaan? A Rejoinder ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Books in Brief ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 18:02, Mar/Apr 1992)
Rainey’s Challenge ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Yurco’s Response ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
The Philistines Enter Canaan ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail ( BAR 17:05, Sep/Oct 1991)
The Trek of the Tribes as They Settled in Canaan ( BAR 17:05, Sep/Oct 1991)
Bible Books ( BR 7:03, Jun 1991)
When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
The Massive Middle Bronze Fortifications—How Did They Work? ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
BAR Scholarships Available to Arabs and Israelis to Deliver Papers at Annual Meeting ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
Searching for Israelite Origins ( BAR 14:05, Sep/Oct 1988)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 13:03, May/Jun 1987)
Lachish—Key to the Israelite Conquest of Canaan? ( BAR 13:01, Jan/Feb 1987)
When Was the Age of the Patriarchs?—Of Amorites, Canaanites, and Archaeology ( BAR 1:02, Jun 1975)
Fortress
Machaerus: Where Salome Danced and John the Baptist Was Beheaded ( BAR 38:05, Sep/Oct 2012)
Herod’s Illness ( BAR 37:01, Jan/Feb 2011)
What Was the Seriah? ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Iron Age
Archaeological Views: Israelite Life Before the Kings ( BAR 39:02, Mar/Apr 2013)
Strata: In Their Own Words ( BAR 39:02, Mar/Apr 2013)
The Persisting Uncertainties of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud ( BAR 38:06, Nov/Dec 2012)
Did Eilat Mazar Find David’s Palace? ( BAR 38:05, Sep/Oct 2012)
How Did Israel Become a People? ( BAR 35:06, Nov/Dec 2009)
Archaeological Views: Carbon 14—The Solution to Dating David and Solomon? ( BAR 35:03, May/Jun 2009)
Newly Discovered: A Fortified City from King David’s Time ( BAR 35:01, Jan/Feb 2009)
Inside, Outside: Where Did the Early Israelites Come From? ( BAR 34:06, Nov/Dec 2008)
Strata: In Their Words ( BAR 34:06, Nov/Dec 2008)
Another View: Was the Earliest Philistine City of Ekron Fortified? ( BAR 32:05, Sep/Oct 2006)
Did I Find King David’s Palace? ( BAR 32:01, Jan/Feb 2006)
The Mysterious “Cultic Corner” ( BAR 30:06, Nov/Dec 2004)
Pottery Talks ( BAR 30:02, Mar/Apr 2004)
What’s in a Name? ( BR 20:01, Feb 2004)
The Battleground ( BAR 29:06, Nov/Dec 2003)
Philistine Fashion ( BAR 29:06, Nov/Dec 2003)
The Mistress of Stratigraphy Had Clay Feet ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Reassessment: Just Another Israelite Village ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
What Difference Does a Century Make? ( BR 19:01, Feb 2003)
Ideology in Stone ( BAR 28:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
King Midas: From Myth to Reality ( AO 4:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
King Midas’s Capital: A Century of Digs at Gordion ( AO 4:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
Excavating the Land of Sheba ( AO 4:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
The Four-Room House: What It Took to Get It Built ( BAR 27:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
The Missing Millennium in Jerusalem’s Archaeology ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Field Notes ( AO 3:03, May/Jun 2000)
Save Us from Postmodern Malarkey ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Will Tel Rehov Save the United Monarchy? ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
Excavating Hazor, Part One: Solomon’s City Rises from the Ashes ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Scholar’s Bookshelf ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
It Is There: The Archaeological Evidence Proves It ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
It Is There: Ancient Texts Prove It ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
Cow Town or Royal Capital? ( BAR 23:04, Jul/Aug 1997)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997)
Edomites Advance into Judah ( BAR 22:06, Nov/Dec 1996)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Even Briefer ( BAR 18:05, Sep/Oct 1992)
Rediscovered! The Land of Geshur ( BAR 18:04, Jul/Aug 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 18:03, May/Jun 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 18:02, Mar/Apr 1992)
Puzzling Public Buildings ( BAR 18:01, Jan/Feb 1992)
Rainey’s Challenge ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
The Sea Peoples and Their Contributions to Civilization ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
The Philistines Enter Canaan ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail ( BAR 17:05, Sep/Oct 1991)
Books in Brief ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Bible Books ( BR 7:03, Jun 1991)
When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
BAR Scholarships Available to Arabs and Israelis to Deliver Papers at Annual Meeting ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
Books in Brief ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
Ekron of the Philistines, Part II: Olive-Oil Suppliers to the World ( BAR 16:02, Mar/Apr 1990)
Ekron of the Philistines, Part I: Where They Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshiped In ( BAR 16:01, Jan/Feb 1990)
Royal Gateway to Ancient Jerusalem Uncovered ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Visualizing First Temple Jerusalem ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Excavating in Samson Country—Philistines and Israelites at Tel Batash ( BAR 15:01, Jan/Feb 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:01, Jan/Feb 1989)
Searching for Israelite Origins ( BAR 14:05, Sep/Oct 1988)
Why Did the Early Israelites Dig All Those Pits? ( BAR 14:05, Sep/Oct 1988)
Books in Brief ( BAR 14:03, May/Jun 1988)
Two Early Israelite Cult Sites Now Questioned ( BAR 14:01, Jan/Feb 1988)
Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures ( BAR 10:02, Mar/Apr 1984)
News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season ( BAR 10:02, Mar/Apr 1984)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 9:03, May/Jun 1983)
How Iron Technology Changed the Ancient World and Gave the Philistines a Military Edge ( BAR 8:06, Nov/Dec 1982)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 6:04, Jul/Aug 1980)
Letter from a Hebrew King? ( BAR 6:01, Jan/Feb 1980)
Ancient Farming in the Judean Wilderness ( BAR 3:03, Sep 1977)
Judges
The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality? (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
Biblical Views: Left-Handed Sons of Right-Handers ( BAR 39:03, May/Jun 2013)
Samson in the Synagogue ( BAR 39:01, Jan/Feb 2013)
Archaeological Views: An Anthropologist’s View of Early Israel ( BAR 38:03, May/Jun 2012)
First Person: Privies and Privacy ( BAR 38:02, Mar/Apr 2012)
The Name Game ( BAR 30:06, Nov/Dec 2004)
What Was the Seriah? ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:04, Jul/Aug 2001)
Why Deborah’s Different ( BR 17:03, Jun 2001)
The Other “Judges” ( BR 17:03, Jun 2001)
Excavating the Tribe of Reuben ( BAR 27:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
Bible Books ( BR 16:06, Dec 2000)
Combine the Best from Each Tradition ( BR 16:04, Aug 2000)
Judges 6:6–11 ( BR 16:04, Aug 2000)
Keep Each Tradition Separate ( BR 16:04, Aug 2000)
Where Is Mount Sinai? ( BR 16:03, Jun 2000)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:05, Sep/Oct 1999)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:04, Aug 1999)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:03, Jun 1999)
Excavating Hazor, Part Two: Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City? ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
Seal of Ba‘alis Surfaces ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Esther and Samson ( BR 15:01, Feb 1999)
First Person: Even-Handed to a Fault ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Scholars Bookshelf ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
It Is There: The Archaeological Evidence Proves It ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
San Francisco Tremors ( BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998)
A Case of Mistaken Identity ( BR 13:02, Apr 1997)
Beth Shemesh ( BAR 23:01, Jan/Feb 1997)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
The Sea Peoples and Their Contributions to Civilization ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Readers Reply ( BR 5:02, Apr 1989)
The Assassination of Eglon ( BR 4:06, Dec 1988)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 10:01, Jan/Feb 1984)
Bronze Bull Found in Israelite “High Place” from the Time of the Judges ( BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983)
A Visit with Ahilud ( BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983)
The Israelite Occupation of Canaan: An Account of the Archaeological Evidence ( BAR 8:03, May/Jun 1982)
Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable? ( BAR 8:02, Mar/Apr 1982)
How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities ( BAR 8:02, Mar/Apr 1982)
The Evolution of Two Hebrew Scripts ( BAR 5:03, May/Jun 1979)
BAR Readers to Restore Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges ( BAR 5:01, Jan/Feb 1979)
An Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges ( BAR 4:03, Sep/Oct 1978)
An Alphabet from the Days of the Judges ( BAR 4:03, Sep/Oct 1978)
Was There an Israelite Amphictyony?a ( BAR 3:02, Jun 1977)
Hazor and the Battle of Joshua—Is Joshua 11 Wrong? ( BAR 2:01, Mar 1976)
Hazor and the Battle of Deborah—Is Judges 4 Wrong? ( BAR 1:04, Dec 1975)
Yadin’s Popular Book on Hazor Now Available ( BAR 1:03, Sep 1975)
Massebah/Masseboth/Standing Stones
Mysterious Standing Stones ( BAR 32:02, Mar/Apr 2006)
That Old Time Religion ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
Sacred Stones in the Desert ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Desert Masseboth: A Gallery of Types ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Does the Bible Disapprove of Masseboth? ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Glossary: Standing Stones ( BAR 15:02, Mar/Apr 1989)
Patriarchal Narratives
First Person: Set Apart from the Nations? ( BAR 33:02, Mar/Apr 2007)
Discovering Hebron ( BAR 31:05, Sep/Oct 2005)
Shechem
Strata: At Risk ( BAR 30:01, Jan/Feb 2004)
Shechem at a Glance ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
What Was the Seriah? ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Bible Lands ( BR 5:01, Feb 1989)
Books in Brief ( BAR 14:01, Jan/Feb 1988)
Temples
Where Is Sodom? ( BAR 39:02, Mar/Apr 2013)
Solomon’s Temple in Context ( BAR 37:02, Mar/Apr 2011)
Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones ( BAR 36:06, Nov/Dec 2010)
Evidence—Written in Stone ( BAR 36:06, Nov/Dec 2010)
The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted ( BAR 36:03, May/Jun 2010)
Excavating Ekron ( BAR 31:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
Field Notes ( AO 8:01, Jan/Feb 2005)
Strata: Early Temple Found in Jordan ( BAR 30:06, Nov/Dec 2004)
Building Power ( BAR 30:05, Sep/Oct 2004)
Another Temple to the Israelite God ( BAR 30:04, Jul/Aug 2004)
Charles Warren vs. James Fergusson ( BAR 29:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
Debate: Where Was Herod’s Temple to Augustus? ( BAR 29:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
“Look on My Works” ( AO 6:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
Shechem at a Glance ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
What Was the Seriah? ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Death at Kourion ( AO 6:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Drowning the Past ( AO 6:03, May/Jun 2003)
Discovering Herod’s Shrine to Augustus ( BAR 29:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
Past Perfect: In the Footsteps of Pausanias ( AO 6:01, Jan/Feb 2003)
Was She Really Stoned? ( AO 5:06, Nov/Dec 2002)
Dining with the Divine ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
Archaeology Odyssey’s 10 Most Endangered Sites ( AO 5:05, Sep/Oct 2002)
Destinations: Punic Double Take ( AO 5:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
Past Perfect: The Ridiculous and the Sublime ( AO 5:03, May/Jun 2002)
Herod’s Roman Temple ( BAR 28:02, Mar/Apr 2002)
Moab Comes to Life ( BAR 28:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
Field Notes ( AO 5:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
Past Perfect: Sacred Shadows ( AO 5:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
The Forum ( AO 4:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
Eros in Egypt ( AO 4:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
Leptis Magna: Jewel of the Maghreb ( AO 4:04, Jul/Aug 2001)
Destinations: The Twin Temples of Gozo ( AO 4:04, Jul/Aug 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
Readers Reply ( BR 17:02, Apr 2001)
Vestal Virgins ( AO 4:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
The Desert Tabernacle ( BR 16:06, Dec 2000)
The Divine Warrior in His Tent ( BR 16:06, Dec 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Restore the Roman Temple at Kedesh ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
The New ‘Ain Dara Temple: Closest Solomonic Parallel ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
What’s an Egyptian Temple Doing in Jerusalem? ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
Field Notes ( AO 3:03, May/Jun 2000)
Sacred Sex in the Hittite Temple of Yazilikaya ( AO 3:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
The Vestal Virgins ( AO 2:05, Nov/Dec 1999)
Architecture of Infinity ( AO 2:04, Sep/Oct 1999)
The Creation of the Cosmos ( AO 2:04, Sep/Oct 1999)
Field Notes ( AO 1:03, Summer 1998)
Even Briefer ( BAR 21:05, Sep/Oct 1995)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:06, Nov/Dec 1993)
Ephesus: Key to a Vision in Revelation ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 16:06, Nov/Dec 1990)
Glorious Beth-Shean ( BAR 16:04, Jul/Aug 1990)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:05, Sep/Oct 1989)
Does the Bible Exaggerate King Solomon’s Golden Wealth? ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:02, Mar/Apr 1989)
Understanding the Nabateans ( BAR 14:06, Nov/Dec 1988)
Fixing the Site of the Tabernacle at Shiloh ( BAR 14:06, Nov/Dec 1988)
The Gigantic Dimensions of the Visionary Temple in the Temple Scroll ( BAR 13:06, Nov/Dec 1987)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 13:05, Sep/Oct 1987)
Temple Architecture: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About Solomon’s Temple? ( BAR 13:04, Jul/Aug 1987)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 13:03, May/Jun 1987)
Arad—An Ancient Israelite Fortress with a Temple to Yahweh ( BAR 13:02, Mar/Apr 1987)
Lachish—Key to the Israelite Conquest of Canaan? ( BAR 13:01, Jan/Feb 1987)
Challenge to Sun-Worship Interpretation of Temple Scroll’s Gilded Staircase ( BAR 11:01, Jan/Feb 1985)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 4:01, Mar 1978)
A Jerusalem Celebration—Of Temples and Bamot ( BAR 3:03, Sep 1977)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 1:04, Dec 1975)
Philistine Temple Discovered Within Tel Aviv City Limits ( BAR 1:02, Jun 1975)



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