2023 – 06

June 2023

Vol. 11, No. 6

Gate to the Forum of Hadrian (originally 2nd century CE) exhibited inside the Alexander Nevsky church in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. (Photo by M. van den Berg)

Who Knew? Uncovering Unexpected Histories in the Southern Levant

June 29, 2023

Figure 1: Section of a 17th century scroll of the Book of Esther. British Library, Or 1047.

The Book of Esther as a Source for Achaemenian History

June 22, 2023

Figure 5. Expedition staff and laborers, 1926. Badè Museum photographic archive 85 N P.I. 01. Colorized lantern slide. Courtesy of the Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion.

Archaeological Laborers of 20th-Century Palestine

June 15, 2023

Fresco from San Silvestro Chapel at Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome (1247 CE) depicting the (fictional) ‘Donation of Constantine’, whereby Emperor Constantine, having converted himself and the Empire to Christianity, offers Pope Sylvester I the imperial tiara.

Who Invented Idolatry?

June 8, 2023

Fig. 5: General view of the baths at Jubal Khubtha in Petra, 2nd-4th cent. CE (credit: Fournet and Paridaens 2016, fig. 11 – with permission of authors).

Baths of the Roman and Byzantine Southern Levant: Roman Ideas and Local Interpretations

June 1, 2023

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