Biblical Archaeology Review - January-February 2018

Holy lanDfill BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW 39 the city revolved around the Temple as local and international pilgrimage—unique to ...

Holy lanDfill 40 January/February 2018 date to the Roman period. The late archaeologist Yigal Shiloh, who was the first to excav ...

Holy lanDfill BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW 41 overcome: First, how do we process the massive amount of dirt in the landfill? This ...

Holy lanDfill 42 January/February 2018 overall nature of the assemblage, including the stone vessels, fragmented glass vessels, ...

Holy lanDfill BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW 43 dates of decades or less. Numismatic evidence is helpful, but coins tended to stay ...

Holy lanDfill 44 January/February 2018 concentrated at this site suggests the presence of an established, citywide garbage dispo ...

Holy lanDfill BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW 45 by Herod the Great in 19 B.C.E. These immense building projects also included the c ...

46 January/February 2018 The Israelites of the Iron Age (c. 1200– 586 B.C.E.) are not remembered for their arts and crafts. The ...

bIbLICaL arCHaeOLOGy reVIeW 47 was a center for the manufacture of basalt sculpture in the second millennium B.C.E.^3 But it was ...

Hazor stones 48 January/February 2018 eastern sides, the workshop lay outside the southern wall of a large agricultural storeroo ...

Hazor stones BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW 49 items, which are usually manufactured by indepen- dent specialists. The Israelite ba ...

Hazor stones 50 January/February 2018 Bronze Age ceremonial palace untouched and build around rather than on top of them for the ...

Hazor stones bIbLICaL arCHaeOLOGy reVIeW 51 two centuries earlier ruled Hazor. In addition, a Late Bronze Age jug containing bro ...

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bIbLICaL arCHaeOLOGy reVIeW 53 Sometimes the most powerful written words are the ones that we don’t see. We wear clothing with t ...

54 WorDs Unseen January/February 2018 a shirt, or a pair of sunglasses—we are reminded of the label or brand associated with the ...

bIbLICaL arCHaeOLOGy reVIeW 55 WorDs Unseen epigraphers dated the inscriptions to the eighth to sixth centuries B.C.E. based upo ...

56 WorDs Unseen January/February 2018 We write to read and to pass along information that (we hope) others will read. We regular ...

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW 57 WorDs Unseen They were monumental texts. Scribes wrote texts on papyrus and other mate- rials in ...

58 WorDs Unseen January/February 2018 seen as condensing or “speeding up” time. To put it another way, miniature objects present ...