Near East
Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: E.A. Speiser
Mesopotamian Motifs in the Early Chapters of Genesis
Biblical history proper begins with the call to Abraham to leave his native country and set out for a destination […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Frances W. James
Lady Mary’s Monastery: An Early Christian church at Beth Shan excavated by a University Museum expedition.
That the Roman Empire enjoyed a long Indian summer in its distant province of Palestine is sometimes overlooked. Even before […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Frances W. James
The Pottery of the Old Testament
From the moment when man is created of dust in the second chapter of Genesis to the moment, shortly before […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: James B. Pritchard
Civil Defense at Gibeon: "Gibeon was a great city...and all its men were mighty" - Joshua 10:2
Defense was the most important single consideration in the planning and building of a city in Biblical Palestine, a land […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Kathleen M. Kenyon
Biblical Jerusalem
Preface No one will question the statement that the center of Biblical archaeology is Jerusalem. Nearly a hundred years ago, […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: William F. Albright
Recent Advances in Palestinian Archaeology
Palestine was always a very poor country, but at the same time it was a land bridge between continents. As […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 4
By: Maurits N. van Loon
A Lion Bowl From Hasanlu
From June to September, 1960, Robert H. Dyson, Jr. led the fifth campaign of excavations at Hasanlu, south of Lake […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 2
By: George F. Dales, Jr.
A Search for Ancient Seaports
The three oldest civilizations of the old world were centered along the great river valleys of the Near and Middle […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: James B. Pritchard
The Bible Reports on Gibeon
A new dimension was added to the archaeological remains at el-Jib by the discovery in 1956 of a handle from […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 3
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
An Iranian Gold Piece
Herodotus tells us that when the Persian fleet was wrecked off Magnesia in Thessaly in 492 B.C. on its way […]
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