No One Thought to Ask the Fruits: Revealing Philistines’ Traditions
June 2024 | Vol. 12.6 By Suembikya Frumin The Philistines (ca. 1200-604 BCE) left no textual sources for understanding their religion, and its study has traditionally been based on
Dogs as Part of the Social Fabric of Iron Age Settlements
October 2023 | Vol. 11.10 By Lidar Sapir-Hen and Deirdre N. Fulton The interaction of humans with their best friend, the dog, is extensively studied. In historical periods, evidenc
Horvat Midras (Israel): A Window into Socio-Religious Change in Rural Roman Palestine
September 2023 | Vol. 11.9 By Orit Peleg-Barkat and Gregg E. Gardner The ongoing excavation of Horvat Midras/Khirbet Durusiya (Israel) provides an opportunity to study changes in t
Who Knew? Uncovering Unexpected Histories in the Southern Levant
June 2023 | Vol. 11.6 By Martine van den Berg This past February, the first-ever Friends of ASOR Tour to Israel and the Palestinian Territories headed off for a 13-day archaeolog
Baths of the Roman and Byzantine Southern Levant: Roman Ideas and Local Interpretations
June 2023 | Vol. 11.6 By Arleta Kowalewska and Craig A. Harvey Bathhouses are one of the most iconic remains associated with the Roman world, easily recognized by their distinctive
Dig Deeper: Revisiting the Excavations of a Glass Workshop at Jalame el-Asafna
May 2023 | Vol. 11.5 By Katherine A. Larson “How was glass made in antiquity?” This is the question that drove a team from The Corning Museum of Glass and the Universit
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
april 2023 | Vol. 11.4 By Andrew Tobolowsky The twelve tribes of Israel are, in a nutshell, how the Hebrew Bible’s historical narratives define Israel. Even today, the tribes are
A Virtual Visit to Tel Dan
january 2023 | Vol. 11.1 By Matti Friedman Anyone who’d like to visit the archaeological site of Tel Dan without actually traveling to northern Israel—and who wants to be shown
The Relationship Between “Jews” and “Israelites” After the Babylonian Exile
july 2022 | Vol. 10.7 By Jason Staples In his review of Karl Georg Kuhn’s Achtzehngebet und Vaterunser und der Reim, the Dutch Biblical scholar M.A. Beek fondly recalls
A Half a Century of Studying Biblical Coins
Why revise a book on coins for fifty years and six editions? For one thing there are more data than ever. For another, old questions with big implications keep sticking around, lik