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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)
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)
Comparative Cultural Studies
Daphnis and Chloe in the Garden of Eden ( BAR 39:04, Jul/Aug 2013)
How Did Israel Become a People? ( BAR 35:06, Nov/Dec 2009)
Israelites and Canaanites ( BAR 28:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
Ideology in Stone ( BAR 28:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997)
Edomites Advance into Judah ( BAR 22:06, Nov/Dec 1996)
Book Notes ( BR 9:01, Feb 1993)
Even Briefer ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Bible Books ( BR 7:02, Apr 1991)
Bible Books ( BR 7:01, Feb 1991)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 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)
Israel’s Emergence in Canaan ( BR 5:05, Oct 1989)
Sumerian Literature ( BR 4:03, Jun 1988)
Archaeology and the Biblical Text ( BAR 14:01, Jan/Feb 1988)
What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood ( BAR 4:04, Nov/Dec 1978)
Using Ancient Near Eastern Parallels in Old Testament Study ( BAR 3:03, Sep 1977)
Was There an Israelite Amphictyony?a ( BAR 3:02, Jun 1977)
The Differences Between Israelite Culture and the Other Major Cultures of the Ancient Near East ( BAR 2:03, Sep 1976)
Deities
ReViews: The Bible Talks About Sex ( BAR 36:06, Nov/Dec 2010)
The Universal God ( BAR 31:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
Another Temple to the Israelite God ( BAR 30:04, Jul/Aug 2004)
The Golden Calf ( BR 20:02, Apr 2004)
What’s in a Name? ( BR 20:01, Feb 2004)
Bible Books ( BR 19:01, Feb 2003)
The Two Faces of Jesus ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
Dining with the Divine ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
When Gods Go Hungry ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Kemosh (But Were Afraid to Ask) ( BAR 28:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
Briefly Noted ( AO 4:03, May/Jun 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
Idol Pleasures ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
Wish Upon a Stone ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Picturing Imageless Deities ( BAR 23:03, May/Jun 1997)
Who the Devil is Beelzebul? ( BR 13:01, Feb 1997)
Smashing the Idols: Piecing Together an Edomite Shrine in Judah ( BAR 22:04, Jul/Aug 1996)
WorldWide ( BAR 22:02, Mar/Apr 1996)
Jeremiah’s Polemic Against Idols ( BR 10:06, Dec 1994)
Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment? ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Readers Reply ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Why Not Idol Meat? ( BR 10:03, Jun 1994)
Bible Books ( BR 9:06, Dec 1993)
Readers Reply ( BR 9:03, Jun 1993)
What Are Pagan River Gods Doing in Scenes of Jesus’ Baptism? ( BR 9:01, Feb 1993)
Idols/Idolatry
The Monotheism of Akhenaten (Aspects of Monotheism, 1996)
The Golden Calf ( BR 20:02, Apr 2004)
What’s in a Name? ( BR 20:01, Feb 2004)
When Gods Go Hungry ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Moab Comes to Life ( BAR 28:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
Briefly Noted ( AO 4:03, May/Jun 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:01, Jan/Feb 2001)
Idol Pleasures ( BAR 26:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
Wish Upon a Stone ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Who the Devil is Beelzebul? ( BR 13:01, Feb 1997)
Smashing the Idols: Piecing Together an Edomite Shrine in Judah ( BAR 22:04, Jul/Aug 1996)
Jeremiah’s Polemic Against Idols ( BR 10:06, Dec 1994)
Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment? ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Readers Reply ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Why Not Idol Meat? ( BR 10:03, Jun 1994)
Isaiah
Cyrus the Messiah ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Who Wrote Second Isaiah? ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Van Gogh’s Bible ( BR 16:01, Feb 2000)
Jerusalem Under Siege ( BAR 25:06, Nov/Dec 1999)
Fallen Star ( BR 14:06, Dec 1998)
Discovering a Goddess ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
God’s Vineyard ( BR 14:04, Aug 1998)
Just Published ( BR 12:06, Dec 1996)
The Suffering Servant at Qumran ( BR 9:06, Dec 1993)
Laments at the Destroyed Temple ( BR 6:04, Aug 1990)
Readers Reply ( BR 6:03, Jun 1990)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Isaiah ( BR 4:06, Dec 1988)
Two Master Portraits of Isaiah ( BR 4:06, Dec 1988)
What the Ass and the Ox Know—But the Scholars Don’t ( BR 1:01, Spring 1985)
Mesopotamia
The Origin of Israelite Sacrifice ( BAR 37:06, Nov/Dec 2011)
ReViews ( BAR 32:02, Mar/Apr 2006)
A Mesopotamian Feast ( AO 9:01, Jan/Feb 2006)
Gilgamesh—Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before ( AO 8:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
ReViews ( AO 8:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
Iraq Update ( AO 6:05, Sep/Oct 2003)
Strata ( BAR 29:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Plundering the Past ( AO 6:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Field Notes ( AO 6:04, Jul/Aug 2003)
Field Notes ( AO 6:03, May/Jun 2003)
Origins: One, Two…Three ( AO 5:05, Sep/Oct 2002)
Reviews ( AO 5:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
When Gods Go Hungry ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
The Iconography of Power ( AO 5:03, May/Jun 2002)
Origins: First Glass ( AO 4:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
Reviews ( AO 4:03, May/Jun 2001)
The Forum ( AO 4:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
Origins: The Horoscope Casters ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Past Perfect: A Day in the Life ( AO 3:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
The Forum ( AO 3:05, Sep/Oct 2000)
“My Life’s Shattered Work!” ( AO 3:03, May/Jun 2000)
The Forum ( AO 3:02, Mar/Apr 2000)
Sons of God ( AO 2:05, Nov/Dec 1999)
The King’s Prayer ( AO 2:05, Nov/Dec 1999)
Origins: Let the Games Begin! ( AO 2:01, Winter 1999)
Backward Glance: Americans at Nippur ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
WorldWide ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Backward Glance: The Ur-Archaeologist ( BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997)
Strata ( BAR 22:05, Sep/Oct 1996)
Books in Brief ( BAR 21:03, May/Jun 1995)
WorldWide ( BAR 21:02, Mar/Apr 1995)
Even Briefer ( BAR 20:02, Mar/Apr 1994)
BARlines ( BAR 20:01, Jan/Feb 1994)
The Oldest Cookbooks in the World ( BR 9:04, Aug 1993)
Even Briefer ( BAR 19:04, Jul/Aug 1993)
Even Briefer ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Readers Reply ( BR 8:04, Aug 1992)
Ebla and the Bible ( BR 8:02, Apr 1992)
Bible Books ( BR 8:02, Apr 1992)
Books in Brief ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Even Briefer ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Woolley’s Ur Revisited ( BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984)
Gudea of Lagash Ends Long Journey ( BAR 9:03, May/Jun 1983)
God Before the Hebrews ( BAR 8:05, Sep/Oct 1982)
John Bright’s New Revision of A History of Israel ( BAR 8:04, Jul/Aug 1982)
Books in Brief ( BAR 8:01, Jan/Feb 1982)
The World’s First Museum and the World’s First Archaeologists ( BAR 5:01, Jan/Feb 1979)
Religious Practices
The Monotheism of Akhenaten (Aspects of Monotheism, 1996)
The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality? (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
In the Beginning: Religion at the Dawn of Civilization ( BAR 39:01, Jan/Feb 2013)
Excavating Ekron ( BAR 31:06, Nov/Dec 2005)
Horizons: The World’s Western Edge: Skellig Michael ( AO 8:04, Jul/Aug 2005)
The Dog Days of Ashkelon ( BR 20:02, Apr 2004)
The Golden Calf ( BR 20:02, Apr 2004)
Should Cheeseburgers Be Kosher? ( BR 19:06, Dec 2003)
Divine Scents ( BR 19:04, Aug 2003)
Moses’ Egyptian Name ( BR 19:03, Jun 2003)
Personal Piety: A Direct Line to God ( BR 19:03, Jun 2003)
Stone Age Death Masks ( AO 6:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
Bible Books ( BR 19:01, Feb 2003)
Reviews ( AO 5:06, Nov/Dec 2002)
Unwrapping the Torah ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
That Old Time Religion ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
Dining with the Divine ( BR 18:05, Oct 2002)
Lay That Ghost ( AO 5:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
When Gods Go Hungry ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Paul at the Races ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Whose Earrings Did Jacob Bury? ( BR 17:04, Aug 2001)
Briefly Noted ( AO 4:02, Mar/Apr 2001)
Bible Books ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:02, Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Santa and His Asherah ( BR 14:06, Dec 1998)
Ancient Israel’s Stone Age ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Reviews ( AO 1:02, Spring 1998)
The Forum ( AO 1:02, Spring 1998)
Invoking the Spirit ( AO 1:01, Winter 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997)
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)
Multiculturalism at Sardis ( BAR 22:05, Sep/Oct 1996)
Books in Brief ( BAR 22:03, May/Jun 1996)
Epispasm—Circumcision in Reverse ( BR 8:04, Aug 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 16:05, Sep/Oct 1990)
Readers Reply ( BR 6:03, Jun 1990)
Archaeology and the Bible—Understanding Their Special Relationship ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
Books in Brief ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
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)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 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)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 15:06, Nov/Dec 1989)
What Happened to the Cult Figurines? Israelite Religion Purified After the Exile ( BAR 15:04, July/Aug 1989)
The Book of Hours ( BR 4:03, Jun 1988)
Readers Reply ( BR 4:03, Jun 1988)
Hosanna ( BR 4:02, Apr 1988)
Afterlife ( BR 4:01, Feb 1988)
Cult Stands: A Bewildering Variety of Shapes and Sizes ( BAR 13:04, Jul/Aug 1987)
Books in Brief ( BAR 13:03, May/Jun 1987)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 11:01, Jan/Feb 1985)
Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale ( BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984)
The Case of the Gilded Staircase ( BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984)
Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control? ( BAR 10:01, Jan/Feb 1984)
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)
Even Briefer ( BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 9:04, Jul/Aug 1983)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 8:06, Nov/Dec 1982)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 8:05, Sep/Oct 1982)
John Bright’s New Revision of A History of Israel ( BAR 8:04, Jul/Aug 1982)
Caesarea Maritima: The Search for Herod’s City ( BAR 8:03, May/Jun 1982)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 8:02, Mar/Apr 1982)
The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan ( BAR 7:05, Sep/Oct 1981)
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)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 4:01, Mar 1978)
A Jerusalem Celebration—Of Temples and Bamot ( BAR 3:03, Sep 1977)
Yigael Yadin Finds a Bama at Beer-Sheva ( BAR 3:01, Mar 1977)
The Kibbutz Sasa Kernos ( BAR 2:02, Jun 1976)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 1:04, Dec 1975)
Philistine Temple Discovered Within Tel Aviv City Limits ( BAR 1:02, Jun 1975)
Horned Altar for Animal Sacrifice Unearthed at Beer-Sheva ( BAR 1:01, Mar 1975)



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