Volume 5 / Number 1
1962
Special Edition: Biblical Archaeology
On The Cover: Jerusalem, looking west, from the Mount of Olives.
Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Froelich Rainey
The Museum Expands: Editorial
With this issue of Expedition we are pleased to announce the establishment of a new section on Biblical Archaeology in the […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Samuel Noah Kramer
The Biblical “Song of Songs” and the Sumerian Love Songs
The Biblical book commonly known as Solomon’s “Song of Songs” or “Canticles,” is like no other book in the Old […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Kenneth D. Matthews, Jr.
A Greek Fragment of the St. Matthew Gospel
On January 11, 1897 the Messrs. Bernard P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt set a contingent of seventy men and boys […]
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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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