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Further Reading:
Babylon/Babylonians
ReViews ( BAR 32:02, Mar/Apr 2006)
Was Noah’s Ark a Sewn Boat? ( BAR 31:03, May/Jun 2005)
Before Tea Leaves: Divination in Ancient Babylonia ( BAR 31:02, Mar/Apr 2005)
Cyrus the Messiah ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
The Search for Noah’s Flood ( BR 19:03, Jun 2003)
Jots & Tittles ( BR 19:03, Jun 2003)
Field Notes ( AO 6:03, May/Jun 2003)
When Gods Go Hungry ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Introduction ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
There Was No Gap ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
Yes There Was ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
Worshiping Idols ( BR 18:02, Apr 2002)
Babel und Bibel und Bias ( BR 18:01, Feb 2002)
The Magi and the Star ( BR 17:06, Dec 2001)
Lilith ( BR 17:05, Oct 2001)
When Civilization Collapsed ( AO 4:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
Where Was Abraham’s Ur? The Case for the Babylonian City ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
The Babylonian Gap ( BAR 26:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
The Forum ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Gilgamesh ( AO 3:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Fame—Gilgamesh as Hero vs. Gilgamesh as Man ( AO 3:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Kingship—Gilgamesh as Hero vs. Gilgamesh as King ( AO 3:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Immortality—Gilgamesh as Hero vs. Gilgamesh as God ( AO 3:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Ancient Life ( AO 3:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
And the Band Played On…But What Did They Play On? ( BR 15:06, Dec 1999)
Caught Between the Great Powers ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:01, Jan/Feb 1998)
Mizpah: Newly Discovered Stratum Reveals Judah’s Other Capital ( BAR 23:05, Sep/Oct 1997)
ReViews ( BAR 23:03, May/Jun 1997)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 22:03, May/Jun 1996)
The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction ( BAR 22:01, Jan/Feb 1996)
Bible Versus Babel ( BR 11:02, Apr 1995)
Even Briefer ( BAR 20:03, May/Jun 1994)
Susanna ( BR 8:03, Jun 1992)
Daniel and Belshazzar in History ( BAR 11:03, May/Jun 1985)
Essene Origins: Palestine or Babylonia? ( BAR 8:05, Sep/Oct 1982)
What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood ( BAR 4:04, Nov/Dec 1978)
Found in Jerusalem: Remains of the Babylonian Siege ( BAR 2:01, Mar 1976)
Babylonian Exile
The Universal God ( BAR 31:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
Controversy: Academic Debate Crosses the Line ( BAR 30:05, Sep/Oct 2004)
Cyrus the Messiah ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Who Wrote Second Isaiah? ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:01, Jan/Feb 1998)
Mizpah: Newly Discovered Stratum Reveals Judah’s Other Capital ( BAR 23:05, Sep/Oct 1997)
Who Returned First—Ezra or Nehemiah? ( BR 12:02, Apr 1996)
Bible Books ( BR 7:01, Feb 1991)
Laments at the Destroyed Temple ( BR 6:04, Aug 1990)
Chronicles
The Divided Monarchy: The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The Paleographer: Demonstrably a Forgery ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
The Linguist: Hebrew Philology Spells Fake ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
2 Chronicles 24:1–14 ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Mounds of Mystery ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem: Once or Twice? ( BAR 27:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
First Person: New Life for an Old Theory ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Discovering a Goddess ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
First Impression: What We Learn from King Ahaz’s Seal ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Did the Author of Chronicles Also Write the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah? ( BR 3:01, Winter 1987)
Explaining the Identical Lines at the End of Chronicles and the Beginning of Ezra ( BR 2:03, Summer 1986)
Elephantine/Elephantine Papyri
How to Date a Pharaoh ( AO 8:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
ReViews ( BAR 30:01, Jan/Feb 2004)
Destinations: The Enchanted Island ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Scholar’s Bookshelf ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 21:05, Sep/Oct 1995)
Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine? ( BAR 21:03, May/Jun 1995)
Ezra
Who Returned First—Ezra or Nehemiah? ( BR 12:02, Apr 1996)
Is the Temple Scroll a Sixth Book of the Torah—Lost for 2,500 Years? ( BAR 13:06, Nov/Dec 1987)
Did the Author of Chronicles Also Write the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah? ( BR 3:01, Winter 1987)
Explaining the Identical Lines at the End of Chronicles and the Beginning of Ezra ( BR 2:03, Summer 1986)
Historical Criticism
The Patriarchal Age: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Israel in Egypt: The Egyptian Sojourn and the Exodus (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The Settlement in Canaan: The Period of the Judges (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The United Monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Defining the Problems: Where We Are in the Debate (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
How to Tell a Canaanite from an Israelite (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality? (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
ReViews ( AO 8:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
It Ain’t Necessarily So ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
First Person: Is the Bible a Bunch of Historical Hooey? ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
Readers Reply ( BR 14:03, Jun 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998)
What We Miss ( BR 14:01, Feb 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 23:06, Nov/Dec 1997)
Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers ( BAR 23:04, Jul/Aug 1997)
Cow Town or Royal Capital? ( BAR 23:04, Jul/Aug 1997)
“Annual Miracle” Visits Philadelphia ( BAR 22:02, Mar/Apr 1996)
Erasing History ( BR 11:06, Dec 1995)
Books in Brief ( BAR 20:06, Nov/Dec 1994)
Profiles in Scholarly Courage ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Readers Reply ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
The Catholic Church and Bible Interpretation ( BR 10:04, Aug 1994)
The Great Gulf Between Scholars and the Pew ( BR 10:03, Jun 1994)
Historical Criticism and Beyond ( BR 9:05, Oct 1993)
History of Israel
The Patriarchal Age: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Israel in Egypt: The Egyptian Sojourn and the Exodus (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The Settlement in Canaan: The Period of the Judges (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The United Monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The Divided Monarchy: The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The Age of Hellenism: Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Roman Domination: The Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple1 (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Sources for a Life of Jesus (The Search for Jesus, 1994)
Defining the Problems: Where We Are in the Debate (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
How to Tell a Canaanite from an Israelite (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality? (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted ( BAR 36:03, May/Jun 2010)
Strata: In Their Own Words ( BAR 35:02, Mar/Apr 2009)
The Universal God ( BAR 31:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
The History of Israelite Religion ( BAR 31:03, May/Jun 2005)
The Battleground ( BAR 29:06, Nov/Dec 2003)
Israelites in Exile ( BAR 29:06, Nov/Dec 2003)
Israelites Found in Egypt ( BAR 29:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
Eyewitness Testimony ( BAR 29:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
Literacy in the Time of Jesus ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Spending Your Way through Jewish History ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Does Amihai Mazar Agree with Finkelstein’s “Low Chronology”? ( BAR 29:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
Sardinians in Israel? ( AO 6:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
The History Behind the Bible ( BAR 29:01, Jan/Feb 2003)
“My Blood of the Covenant” ( AO 5:05, Sep/Oct 2002)
Bible Books ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Readers Reply ( BR 17:06, Dec 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
Reversal of Fortune ( BR 17:04, Aug 2001)
Searching For Saul ( BR 17:02, Apr 2001)
The Babylonian Gap ( BAR 26:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Bible Books ( BR 16:05, Oct 2000)
Books in Brief ( BR 16:05, Oct 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
The Forum ( AO 3:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
How Reliable Is Exodus? ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
ReViews ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
Jerusalem as Eden ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
First Person: No History in the Bible? ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
The Yarwhosians? ( AO 3:03, May/Jun 2000)
What Separates a Minimalist from a Maximalist? Not Much ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Save Us from Postmodern Malarkey ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Can You Understand This? ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Will Tel Rehov Save the United Monarchy? ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Ritmeyer Responds to Jacobson ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Kaufman Responds to Jacobson ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Scholar’s Bookshelf ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:01, Jan/Feb 2000)
ReViews ( BAR 25:06, Nov/Dec 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:06, Nov/Dec 1999)
Biran at Ninety ( BAR 25:05, Sep/Oct 1999)
ReViews ( BAR 25:05, Sep/Oct 1999)
God as Divine Kinsman ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
The Israelites ( BR 15:03, Jun 1999)
Bible Books ( BR 15:03, Jun 1999)
ReViews ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
First Person: Weighing the Evidence ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
ReViews ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Scholar’s Bookshelf ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Strata ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Sacred Spaces ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
Israel in Exile ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Strata ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:01, Jan/Feb 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 23:06, Nov/Dec 1997)
Israel and Revelation ( BR 13:05, Oct 1997)
Will the Real Josephus Please Stand Up? ( BAR 23:05, Sep/Oct 1997)
Bible Books ( BR 13:04, Aug 1997)
Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers ( BAR 23:04, Jul/Aug 1997)
Cow Town or Royal Capital? ( BAR 23:04, Jul/Aug 1997)
The Biblical Minimalists ( BR 13:03, Jun 1997)
Son of God ( BR 13:03, Jun 1997)
Bible Books ( BR 13:03, Jun 1997)
New Orleans Gumbo ( BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997)
The Water Libation in the Festival of Booths ( BR 12:06, Dec 1996)
Edomites Advance into Judah ( BAR 22:06, Nov/Dec 1996)
Is the Bible Right After All? BAR Interviews William Dever—Part Two ( BAR 22:05, Sep/Oct 1996)
Bible Books ( BR 12:03, Jun 1996)
Just Published ( BR 12:03, Jun 1996)
Erasing History ( BR 11:06, Dec 1995)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 21:06, Nov/Dec 1995)
Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives ( BAR 21:04, Jul/Aug 1995)
The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History? ( BAR 21:02, Mar/Apr 1995)
Bible Books ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Books in Brief ( BAR 20:05, Sep/Oct 1994)
Climate and Collapse ( BR 10:04, Aug 1994)
Even Briefer ( BAR 20:03, May/Jun 1994)
Books in Brief ( BAR 20:01, Jan/Feb 1994)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:06, Nov/Dec 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:04, Jul/Aug 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
Book Notes ( BR 9:02, Apr 1993)
Readers Reply ( BR 9:02, Apr 1993)
Readers Reply ( BR 9:01, Feb 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Even Briefer ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Books in Brief ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Even Briefer ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Part II: The Development of Israelite Religion ( BR 8:05, Oct 1992)
Bible Books ( BR 8:05, Oct 1992)
Even Briefer ( BAR 18:05, Sep/Oct 1992)
Introduction ( BR 8:04, Aug 1992)
Book Notes ( BR 8:04, Aug 1992)
A Thousand Years of History in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter ( BAR 18:03, May/Jun 1992)
Book Notes ( BR 7:06, Dec 1991)
Rainey’s Challenge ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Yurco’s Response ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Books in Brief ( BAR 17:05, Sep/Oct 1991)
Even Briefer ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Bible Books ( BR 7:03, Jun 1991)
Book Notes ( BR 7:03, Jun 1991)
Grisly Assyrian Record of Torture and Death ( BAR 17:01, Jan/Feb 1991)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 17:01, Jan/Feb 1991)
Books in Brief ( BAR 16:06, Nov/Dec 1990)
Readers Reply ( BR 6:05, Oct 1990)
3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt ( BAR 16:05, Sep/Oct 1990)
Books in Brief ( BAR 16:05, Sep/Oct 1990)
Books in Brief ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
Readers Reply ( BR 6:02, Apr 1990)
The Nine Commandments ( BR 5:06, Dec 1989)
The Hebrew Bible Contains the Oldest Surviving History ( BR 5:06, Dec 1989)
The Great Eighth Century ( BR 5:04, Aug 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Bible Lands ( BR 5:01, Feb 1989)
Excavating in Samson Country—Philistines and Israelites at Tel Batash ( BAR 15:01, Jan/Feb 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 14:05, Sep/Oct 1988)
Bible Books ( BR 4:02, Apr 1988)
1987 Annual Meeting in Boston: A Wild, Wonderful Academic Circus ( BAR 14:02, Mar/Apr 1988)
War, Peace and Justice in Early Israel ( BR 3:03, Summer 1987)
Books in Brief ( BAR 13:02, Mar/Apr 1987)
Jerusalem Model Rediscovered ( BAR 13:01, Jan/Feb 1987)
Books in Brief ( BAR 12:06, Nov/Dec 1986)
Books in Brief ( BAR 12:04, Jul/Aug 1986)
Continuity & Change in Israel’s Convenant with God ( BR 1:04, Fall 1985)
Books in Brief ( BAR 11:01, Jan/Feb 1985)
Books in Brief ( BAR 9:04, Jul/Aug 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)
Jeremiah
The Wall That Nehemiah Built ( BAR 35:02, Mar/Apr 2009)
Strata: Cuneiform Tablet Confirms Biblical Name ( BAR 33:06, Nov/Dec 2007)
Agent of the Lord, Warrior for the People ( BR 18:06, Dec 2002)
The Book of Jeremiah: a Work in Progress ( BR 16:03, Jun 2000)
Is the “True Branch” Prophecy Really Part of Jeremiah? ( BR 16:03, Jun 2000)
“Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah” ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
How the Book of Jeremiah Came to Be: The Biblical Version of Events ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Which Came First? ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Caught Between the Great Powers ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
Seal of Ba‘alis Surfaces ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Readers Reply ( BR 14:06, Dec 1998)
Discovering a Goddess ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
From the Land of the Bow ( BR 14:04, Aug 1998)
Fingerprint of Jeremiah’s Scribe ( BAR 22:02, Mar/Apr 1996)
Pieces of the Puzzle ( BAR 22:02, Mar/Apr 1996)
Jeremiah’s Polemic Against Idols ( BR 10:06, Dec 1994)
Bible Quiz ( BR 10:04, Aug 1994)
Books in Brief ( BAR 20:03, May/Jun 1994)
Jeremiah’s Scribe and Confidant Speaks from a Hoard of Clay Bullae ( BAR 13:05, Sep/Oct 1987)
How Can Jeremiah Compare the Migration of Birds to Knowledge of God’s Justice? ( BR 2:03, Summer 1986)
BAR Jr.: "Lachish and Azekah Were the Only Fortified Cities of Judah That Remained" (Jeremiah 34:7) ( BAR 8:06, Nov/Dec 1982)
Kings
The United Monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Jezreel—Where Jezebel Was Thrown to the Dogs ( BAR 36:04, Jul/Aug 2010)
Narmer’s Enigmatic Palette ( AO 7:05, Sep/Oct 2004)
Eyewitness Testimony ( BAR 29:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
David and Joab ( BR 19:04, Aug 2003)
The Paleographer: Demonstrably a Forgery ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
2 Kings 12:1–16 ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
The Linguist: Hebrew Philology Spells Fake ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Mounds of Mystery ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Ashyahu: He’s Josiah ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Of Fathers, Kings and the Deity ( BAR 28:02, Mar/Apr 2002)
Biblical Detective Work Identifies the Eunuch ( BAR 28:02, Mar/Apr 2002)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
How We Know When Solomon Ruled ( BAR 27:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
King Hezekiah’s Seal Revisited ( BAR 27:04, Jul/Aug 2001)
Pagan Yahwism: The Folk Religion of Ancient Israel ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
Readers reply ( BR 17:01, Feb 2001)
Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem: Once or Twice? ( BAR 27:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
The Biblical Account of Sennacherib’s Attack ( BAR 27:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
The Birth of Kingship ( AO 4:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
How Bad Was Jezebel? ( BR 16:05, Oct 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
Insight ( BR 16:04, Aug 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:04, Jul/Aug 2000)
What Was Josiah Thinking? ( BR 16:03, Jun 2000)
The New ‘Ain Dara Temple: Closest Solomonic Parallel ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
Mt. Sinai—in Arabia? ( BR 16:02, Apr 2000)
Can You Understand This? ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Jerusalem Under Siege ( BAR 25:06, Nov/Dec 1999)
Which Came First? ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
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)
First Person: Even-Handed to a Fault ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Sacred Spaces ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Scholars Bookshelf ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
Readers Reply ( BR 14:03, Jun 1998)
The Egyptianizing of Canaan ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Israel in Exile ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
First Impression: What We Learn from King Ahaz’s Seal ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Where Is the Tenth Century? ( BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998)
Clothes Maketh The Man ( BR 14:01, Feb 1998)
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar & Solomon ( BAR 33:01, Jan/Feb 2007)
The Universal God ( BAR 31:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
The Babylonian Gap ( BAR 26:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
And the Band Played On…But What Did They Play On? ( BR 15:06, Dec 1999)
Caught Between the Great Powers ( BAR 25:04, Jul/Aug 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 22:03, May/Jun 1996)
The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction ( BAR 22:01, Jan/Feb 1996)
Daniel and Belshazzar in History ( BAR 11:03, May/Jun 1985)
Found in Jerusalem: Remains of the Babylonian Siege ( BAR 2:01, Mar 1976)
Nehemiah
First Person: In Defense of Eilat Mazar ( BAR 34:02, Mar/Apr 2008)
Another View ( BAR 32:03, May/Jun 2006)
Big City, Few People ( BAR 31:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
The Birth of the Canon ( BR 18:01, Feb 2002)
Who Returned First—Ezra or Nehemiah? ( BR 12:02, Apr 1996)
Laments at the Destroyed Temple ( BR 6:04, Aug 1990)
Did the Author of Chronicles Also Write the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah? ( BR 3:01, Winter 1987)
Persia/Persian Period/Achaemenid Period
Making (Up) History ( AO 8:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
Life and Death on the Israel-Lebanon Border ( BAR 31:05, Sep/Oct 2005)
Big City, Few People ( BAR 31:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
The First Declaration of Human Rights: The Cyrus Cylinder ( BAR 31:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
Field Notes ( AO 7:05, Sep/Oct 2004)
Another Temple to the Israelite God ( BAR 30:04, Jul/Aug 2004)
Cyrus the Messiah ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Who Wrote Second Isaiah? ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Field Notes ( AO 5:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
Introduction ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
There Was No Gap ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
Yes There Was ( BAR 28:03, May/Jun 2002)
WorldWide ( BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998)
WorldWide ( BAR 23:03, May/Jun 1997)
Bible Books ( BR 13:02, Apr 1997)
WorldWide ( BAR 23:01, Jan/Feb 1997)
The Many Masters of Dor, Part 3: The Persistence of Phoenician Culture ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
The Book of Esther ( BR 8:01, Feb 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Beauty and Utility in Bone ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon? ( BAR 17:03, May/Jun 1991)
Books in Brief ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
Books in Brief ( BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984)
Samaria/Samaritans
The Divided Monarchy: The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Lost Tombs of the Israelite Kings ( BAR 33:04, Jul/Aug 2007)
The Eleven Commandments ( BAR 30:06, Nov/Dec 2004)
Four-Horned Altar Discovered in Judean Hills ( BAR 30:03, May/Jun 2004)
How a Renaissance Man Discovered the Samaritan Pentateuch ( BR 16:04, Aug 2000)
Scholar’s Bookshelf ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
How to Tell a Samaritan Synagogue from a Jewish Synagogue ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Backward Glance: An Archaeologist Before His Time ( BAR 22:06, Nov/Dec 1996)
BARlines ( BAR 21:05, Sep/Oct 1995)
Even Briefer ( BAR 20:06, Nov/Dec 1994)
Readers Reply ( BR 8:01, Feb 1992)
The Abisha Scroll—3,000 Years Old? ( BR 7:05, Oct 1991)
The Importance of the Samaritan Pentateuch ( BR 7:05, Oct 1991)
The Samaritans ( BR 7:05, Oct 1991)
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)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 6:03, May/Jun 1980)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 5:06, Nov/Dec 1979)
Bedouin Find Papyri Three Centuries Older Than Dead Sea Scrolls ( BAR 4:01, Mar 1978)
The Historical Importance of the Samaria Papyri ( BAR 4:01, Mar 1978)
Temple at Jerusalem
The United Monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon (Ancient Israel, 1999)
The Age of Hellenism: Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Roman Domination: The Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple1 (Ancient Israel, 1999)
Josephus: A Reliable Witness of the Temple’s Destruction? ( BAR 36:04, Jul/Aug 2010)
New Evidence of the Royal Stoa and Roman Flames ( BAR 36:02, Mar/Apr 2010)
Strata: New Model of Ancient Temple Installed in Jerusalem ( BAR 36:02, Mar/Apr 2010)
Strata: Ritual Bath or Swimming Pool? ( BAR 34:03, May/June 2008)
ReViews ( BAR 31:05, Sep/Oct 2005)
The Temple Menorah—Where Is It? ( BAR 31:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
Was There a Temple in Jerusalem? ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Charles Warren vs. James Fergusson ( BAR 29:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
The “Three Shekels” and “Widow’s Plea” Ostraca: Real or Fake? ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
First Person: Create a Fake and Win $10,000 ( BAR 29:03, May/Jun 2003)
Gallery ( BR 18:04, Aug 2002)
Herod’s Roman Temple ( BAR 28:02, Mar/Apr 2002)
First Person: Temple Mount Wall in Danger ( BAR 28:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
Financing the Colosseum ( BAR 27:04, Jul/Aug 2001)
Connecting the Dots: Deciphering the Colosseum Inscription ( BAR 27:04, Jul/Aug 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
The New ‘Ain Dara Temple: Closest Solomonic Parallel ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
Jerusalem as Eden ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
Ritmeyer Responds to Jacobson ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Kaufman Responds to Jacobson ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
The Forum ( AO 2:04, Sep/Oct 1999)
Bought on the Market ( AO 2:02, May/Jun 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Strata ( BAR 24:04, Jul/Aug 1998)
Strata ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998)
Three Shekels for the Lord ( BAR 23:06, Nov/Dec 1997)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 22:04, Jul/Aug 1996)
Behold the Temple ( BAR 22:03, May/Jun 1996)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 22:03, May/Jun 1996)
Did the Synagogue Replace the Temple? ( BR 12:02, Apr 1996)
Who Returned First—Ezra or Nehemiah? ( BR 12:02, Apr 1996)
The Ark of the Covenant: Where It Stood in Solomon’s Temple ( BAR 22:01, Jan/Feb 1996)
Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple ( BR 11:05, Oct 1995)
The Eucharist—A Sacrificial Formula Preserved ( BR 10:06, Dec 1994)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 20:05, Sep/Oct 1994)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 20:04, Jul/Aug 1994)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 20:02, Mar/Apr 1994)
Inside Solomon’s Temple ( BR 10:02, Apr 1994)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 20:01, Jan/Feb 1994)
Herod’s Temple in East Anglia ( BAR 19:05, Sep/Oct 1993)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:05, Sep/Oct 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:04, July/Aug 1989)
Does the Bible Exaggerate King Solomon’s Golden Wealth? ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Visualizing First Temple Jerusalem ( BAR 15:03, May/Jun 1989)
Reconstructing the Magnificent Temple Herod Built ( BR 4:05, Oct 1988)
Dimensions of Architectural Elements of the Temple as Recorded in Middot (all dimensions are in cubits: 1 cubit = 52.5 cm = 20.7 inches) ( BR 4:05, Oct 1988)
The Temple ( BR 4:05, Oct 1988)
Temple Architecture: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About Solomon’s Temple? ( BAR 13:04, Jul/Aug 1987)
King Solomon’s Wall Still Supports the Temple Mount ( BAR 13:03, May/Jun 1987)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 11:05, Sep/Oct 1985)
Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery? ( BAR 11:03, May/Jun 1985)
Probable Head of Priestly Scepter from Solomon’s Temple Surfaces in Jerusalem ( BAR 10:01, Jan/Feb 1984)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 9:04, Jul/Aug 1983)
Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood ( BAR 9:02, Mar/Apr 1983)
In Search of Solomon’s Lost Treasures ( BAR 6:04, Jul/Aug 1980)
Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple? ( BAR 5:05, Sep/Oct 1979)
The Mystery of the Horses of the Sun at the Temple Entrance ( BAR 4:02, Jun 1978)



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