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Further Reading:
Asherah
The Monotheism of Akhenaten (Aspects of Monotheism, 1996)
Folk Religion in Early Israel: Did Yahweh Have a Consort? (Aspects of Monotheism, 1996)
The Religious Reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah (Aspects of Monotheism, 1996)
The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality? (The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991)
The Persisting Uncertainties of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud ( BAR 38:06, Nov/Dec 2012)
A Temple Built for Two ( BAR 34:02, Mar/Apr 2008)
Did God Have a Wife? ( BAR 32:05, Sep/Oct 2006)
ReViews ( BAR 31:01, Jan/Feb 2005)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
Sacred Stones in the Desert ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Yahweh and His Asherah: The Debate Continues ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:02, Apr 1999)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999)
Santa and His Asherah ( BR 14:06, Dec 1998)
Discovering a Goddess ( BAR 24:05, Sep/Oct 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 21:02, Mar/Apr 1995)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 20:05, Sep/Oct 1994)
Was Yahweh Worshiped as the Sun? ( BAR 20:03, May/Jun 1994)
The Pomegranate Scepter Head—From the Temple of the Lord or from a Temple of Asherah? ( BAR 18:03, May/Jun 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 18:01, Jan/Feb 1992)
Understanding Asherah—Exploring Semitic Iconography ( BAR 17:05, Sep/Oct 1991)
BAR Scholarships Available to Arabs and Israelis to Deliver Papers at Annual Meeting ( BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 11:04, Jul/Aug 1985)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 11:02, Mar/Apr 1985)
Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah? ( BAR 10:06, Nov/Dec 1984)
Did Yahweh Have a Consort? ( BAR 5:02, Mar/Apr 1979)
Coming in BAR—Did Yahweh Have a Consort? ( BAR 4:03, Sep/Oct 1978)
Biblical Poetry
Biblical Views: Searching for a Woman’s Voice in Psalms ( BAR 36:03, May/Jun 2010)
The Name Game ( BAR 30:06, Nov/Dec 2004)
The Song of Songs ( BR 18:04, Aug 2002)
Books in Brief ( BR 16:06, Dec 2000)
As Simple as ABC ( BR 13:02, Apr 1997)
Readers Reply ( BR 9:02, Apr 1993)
Readers Reply ( BR 9:01, Feb 1993)
Part II: The Development of Israelite Religion ( BR 8:05, Oct 1992)
Coin Hoard Found at Qatzrin on Last Day of Dig ( BAR 17:03, May/Jun 1991)
Odd Book In ( BR 6:05, Oct 1990)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Illuminations ( BR 5:04, Aug 1989)
Readers Reply ( BR 5:03, Jun 1989)
Introduction ( BR 5:01, Feb 1989)
Taking the Heat in Struggle Over Biblical Poetry ( BR 5:01, Feb 1989)
Readers Reply ( BR 2:04, Winter 1986)
The Psalms ( BR 2:03, Fall 1986)
Bible Books ( BR 2:03, Fall 1986)
Readers Reply ( BR 1:02, Summer 1985)
Unlocking the Poetry of Love in the Song of Songs ( BR 1:01, Spring 1985)
What the Ass and the Ox Know—But the Scholars Don’t ( BR 1:01, Spring 1985)
Books in Brief ( BAR 7:02, Mar/Apr 1981)
Child Sacrifice
Bible Books ( BR 19:02, Apr 2003)
Iphigenia & Isaac ( AO 5:03, May/Jun 2002)
The Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter ( AO 5:03, May/Jun 2002)
The Forum ( AO 4:03, May/Jun 2001)
Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? No ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
The Forum ( AO 2:03, Jul/Aug 1999)
The Forum ( AO 2:01, Winter 1999)
Ancient Life: Toilet Training ( AO 1:04, Fall 1998)
Strata ( BAR 22:04, Jul/Aug 1996)
Bible Books ( BR 11:01, Feb 1995)
Child Sacrifice: Returning God’s Gift ( BR 9:03, Jun 1993)
Did Jephthah Kill His Daughter? ( BR 7:04, Aug 1991)
Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Prize Find: Pomegranate Scepters and Incense Stand with Pomegranates Found in Priest’s Grave ( BAR 16:01, Jan/Feb 1990)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 13:02, Mar/Apr 1987)
Why King Mesha of Moab Sacrificed His Oldest Son ( BAR 12:06, Nov/Dec 1986)
Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control? ( BAR 10:01, Jan/Feb 1984)
Infanticide
The Forum ( AO 4:03, May/Jun 2001)
Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? No ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes ( AO 3:06, Nov/Dec 2000)
The Forum ( AO 2:03, Jul/Aug 1999)
The Forum ( AO 2:01, Winter 1999)
Ancient Life: Toilet Training ( AO 1:04, Fall 1998)
Strata ( BAR 22:04, Jul/Aug 1996)
Bible Books ( BR 11:01, Feb 1995)
Child Sacrifice: Returning God’s Gift ( BR 9:03, Jun 1993)
Did Jephthah Kill His Daughter? ( BR 7:04, Aug 1991)
Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon ( BAR 17:04, Jul/Aug 1991)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Prize Find: Pomegranate Scepters and Incense Stand with Pomegranates Found in Priest’s Grave ( BAR 16:01, Jan/Feb 1990)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 13:02, Mar/Apr 1987)
Why King Mesha of Moab Sacrificed His Oldest Son ( BAR 12:06, Nov/Dec 1986)
Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control? ( BAR 10:01, Jan/Feb 1984)
Isaiah
Cyrus the Messiah ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Who Wrote Second Isaiah? ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Worshiping Idols ( BR 18:02, Apr 2002)
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)
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)
Judith
First Person: Art as Bible Interpretation ( BAR 39:01, Jan/Feb 2013)
Spy Tales ( BR 19:05, Oct 2003)
Esther Not Judith ( BR 18:01, Feb 2002)
Bible Books ( BR 15:05, Oct 1999)
Judith ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Languages
Another View: Christopher Rollston’s Methodology of Caution ( BAR 38:05, Sep/Oct 2012)
Strata: Sounds of Destruction: Scholars Revive Babylonian Language ( BAR 37:03, May/Jun 2011)
Texts from Ugarit Solve Biblical Puzzles ( BAR 36:06, Nov/Dec 2010)
Shasu or Habiru: Who Were the Early Israelites? ( BAR 34:06, Nov/Dec 2008)
Strata: Where Aramaic Is Spoken ( BAR 34:01, Jan/Feb 2008)
Past Perfect: Reading the Rosetta Stone ( AO 6:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
Jots & Tittles ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 27:05, Sep/Oct 2001)
When Palestine Meant Israel ( BAR 27:03, May/Jun 2001)
Bible Books ( BR 15:06, Dec 1999)
Excavating Hazor, Part Two: Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City? ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
Strata ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
The Forum: Taking Issue ( AO 1:04, Fall 1998)
How to Read Etruscan ( AO 1:03, Summer 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 19:03, May/Jun 1993)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 19:02, Mar/Apr 1993)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 19:01, Jan/Feb 1993)
Part III: How the Alphabet Democratized Civilization ( BR 8:06, Dec 1992)
Jubilees ( BR 8:06, Dec 1992)
The Messiah at Qumran ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Even Briefer ( BAR 18:06, Nov/Dec 1992)
Jewish Funerary Inscriptions—Most Are in Greek ( BAR 18:05, Sep/Oct 1992)
Did Jesus Speak Greek? ( BAR 18:05, Sep/Oct 1992)
The Mysterious Copper Scroll ( BR 8:04, Aug 1992)
History and Legend of “Jordan” ( BR 8:03, Jun 1992)
Book Notes ( BR 8:02, Apr 1992)
Classical Scholarship—Anti-Black and Anti-Semitic? ( BR 6:03, Jun 1990)
Books in Brief ( BAR 16:03, May/Jun 1990)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Glossary ( BR 5:03, Jun 1989)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 14:03, May/Jun 1988)
Learning Biblical Languages ( BAR 13:06, Nov/Dec 1987)
Magic
ReViews: Repelling the Evil Eye ( BAR 36:05, Sep/Oct 2010)
Stone Age Death Masks ( AO 6:02, Mar/Apr 2003)
Lay That Ghost ( AO 5:04, Jul/Aug 2002)
Ancient Life: The Dog-Demon ( AO 5:01, Jan/Feb 2002)
Briefly Noted ( AO 4:06, Nov/Dec 2001)
Insight ( BR 16:03, Jun 2000)
Welcome to the World of Magic! ( AO 1:03, Summer 1998)
“An Amulet Against Fever” ( AO 1:03, Summer 1998)
“May He Smite! He Is the Only One.” ( AO 1:03, Summer 1998)
Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death ( BR 6:01, Feb 1990)
Books in Brief ( BAR 13:03, May/Jun 1987)
Paul
Introduction: Defining the Problem (The Search for Jesus, 1994)
ReViews: The Real Founder of Christianity? ( BAR 39:02, Mar/Apr 2013)
ReViews: Tradition and Proclamation: A Galilean Teacher and a Diaspora Jew ( BAR 38:05, Sep/Oct 2012)
Strata: In Their Own Words ( BAR 38:04, Jul/Aug 2012)
Why Paul Went West ( BAR 37:01, Jan/Feb 2011)
ReViews: A Vision of Paul ( BAR 36:03, May/Jun 2010)
A New Reconstruction of Paul’s Prison ( BAR 35:01, Jan/Feb 2009)
ReViews: 4QSama—The Difficult Life of a Dead Sea Scroll ( BAR 33:03, May/Jun 2007)
Was Paul a Pro-Slavery Chauvinist? ( BR 20:02, Apr 2004)
Peter: How a Flawed Disciple Became Jesus’ Successor on Earth ( BR 20:01, Feb 2004)
Vision Quest ( BR 19:04, Aug 2003)
Paul at the Races ( BR 18:03, Jun 2002)
Readers Reply ( BR 17:06, Dec 2001)
Farewell to the Rapture ( BR 17:04, Aug 2001)
Readers Reply ( BR 17:04, Aug 2001)
The Shape of Justification ( BR 17:02, Apr 2001)
Readers Reply ( BR 17:02, Apr 2001)
Paul, Leader of a Jewish Revolution ( BR 16:06, Dec 2000)
Readers Reply ( BR 16:06, Dec 2000)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000)
Strata ( BAR 26:01, Jan/Feb 2000)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:04, Aug 1999)
ReViews ( BAR 25:03, May/Jun 1999)
Laying Down the Law ( BR 15:02, Apr 1999)
Paul’s Challenge to Caesar ( BR 15:02, Apr 1999)
Readers Reply ( BR 15:02, Apr 1999)
Bible Books ( BR 15:01, Feb 1999)
Paul’s Contradictions ( BR 14:06, Dec 1998)
PUNCTUATIONINTHENEWTESTAMENT ( BR 14:06, Dec 1998)
Paul and Qumran ( BR 14:05, Oct 1998)
The New Inheritance According to Paul ( BR 14:03, Jun 1998)
Readers Reply ( BR 14:03, Jun 1998)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998)
Bible Books ( BR 14:02, Apr 1998)
The Mystery of Paul ( BR 14:01, Feb 1998)
Banias Dig Reveals King’s Palace ( BAR 24:01, Jan/Feb 1998)
Strata ( BAR 24:01, Jan/Feb 1998)
The Two Faces of Faithfulness ( BR 13:05, Oct 1997)
Did Paul Fall Off A Horse? ( BR 13:04, Aug 1997)
Bible Books ( BR 13:04, Aug 1997)
Bible Books ( BR 13:03, Jun 1997)
Good News for a Pagan World ( BR 13:03, Jun 1997)
Bible Books ( BR 12:06, Dec 1996)
Expeditions ( BAR 22:05, Sep/Oct 1996)
Paul, Christian Community and the Jews ( BR 12:03, Jun 1996)
Book Notes ( BR 10:06, Dec 1994)
Paul, “Works of the Law” and MMT ( BAR 20:06, Nov/Dec 1994)
What Was Paul Doing in “Arabia”? ( BR 10:05, Oct 1994)
Readers Reply ( BR 9:04, Aug 1993)
Paul and Judaism: 5 Puzzles ( BR 9:02, Apr 1993)
Prisca and Aquila ( BR 8:06, Dec 1992)
Book Notes ( BR 7:04, Aug 1991)
Circumcision of Gentile Converts ( BR 7:01, Feb 1991)
Readers Reply ( BR 6:02, Apr 1990)
Did Paul Commit Suicide? ( BR 5:06, Dec 1989)
Bible Books ( BR 5:03, Jun 1989)
Readers Reply ( BR 5:02, Apr 1989)
Corinth & Ephesus ( BR 4:06, Dec 1988)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 14:05, Sep/Oct 1988)
Paul ( BR 4:04, Aug 1988)
The Enigma of Paul ( BR 4:04, Aug 1988)
Bible Books ( BR 4:03, Jun 1988)
Corinth in Paul’s Time—What Can Archaeology Tell Us? ( BAR 14:03, May/Jun 1988)
Bible Books ( BR 4:02, Apr 1988)
The God-Fearers: A Literary and Theological Invention ( BAR 12:05, Sep/Oct 1986)
Jews and God-Fearers in the Holy City of Aphrodite ( BAR 12:05, Sep/Oct 1986)
On the Road and on the Sea with St. Paul ( BR 1:02, Summer 1985)
Books in Brief ( BAR 11:01, Jan/Feb 1985)
Books in Brief ( BAR 10:04, Jul/Aug 1984)
Books in Brief ( BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983)
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)
Worshiping Idols ( BR 18:02, Apr 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)
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)
Suicide
Queries & Comments ( BAR 25:02, Mar/Apr 1999)
Introduction ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Where Masada’s Defenders Fell ( BAR 24:06, Nov/Dec 1998)
Books in Brief ( BAR 18:05, Sep/Oct 1992)
Queries & Comments ( BAR 18:02, Mar/Apr 1992)
The Last Days and Hours at Masada ( BAR 17:06, Nov/Dec 1991)
Readers Reply ( BR 6:02, Apr 1990)
Did Paul Commit Suicide? ( BR 5:06, Dec 1989)



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