“Terminate and Liquidate”: How the Megiddo Ivories were Almost Not Discovered
Money and local politics are always the bane of archaeological projects. For the Megiddo project in the late 1930s, these problems were so dire that they almost brought the end jus
Pilgrimages and Expeditions to the Holy Land, Egypt and Rome: The Spanish Experience
Spanish travel to biblical places has been constant since the first centuries of Christianity. A particularly rich literature tells of 19th and 20th interest in pilgrimages and mis
Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel
The Bible regards Solomon as the greatest and wisest of kings. But which Solomon are we talking about, that of Samuel-Kings or Chronicles? And which is closer to ‘history’?
Who Are the “Best-Connected” Members of the ASOR Community?
The annual ASOR meeting is a really big show, with hundreds of participants. But an analysis shows that those many hundreds of participants are linked in unusual ways.
Why Did Sennacherib Create Two Accounts of His Siege of Lachish?
Sennacherib’s reliefs from his palace at Nineveh famously show the destruction of the Judean city of Lachish. But why do the written accounts of the conquest differ from the reli