Jewish Cliff Shelters and Hiding Complexes in the Roman Period Galilee
Josephus described fortifying Jewish sites in the Galilee before the Roman onslaught. New research has shown that many of those sites were hewn into cliffs and dug below settlement
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’?
Peqi‘in Cave—A Unique Chalcolithic Cemetery in the Southern Levant
Peqi‘in Cave— A unique Chalcolithic cemetery in the Southern Levant Over the course of 500 years people brought their dead to a cave in the Galilee. But behind the decorated fa
How Two Historians Reconstruct the Lives of Ancient Children
Children often seem missing from accounts of the past, including ancient Israel. Two new books describe ways to put children back in the picture and to understand their many meanin
The Bearded Figure Who Might be King
Figurines appear in the Iron Age Levant but very few are made of the material called faience. Fewer still can be plausibly interpreted as representing an actual king.
Silk Textiles in the Southern Levant
The Hebrew word for silk appears only twice in the Bible. But after 400 CE, as Christianity and pilgrimage expanded, silk from Egypt and Syria began to appear, and to be preserved