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Camel Ancestry and Domestication in Egypt and the Sahara by Michael Ripinsky There are a great many magazines on archaeology telling of recent finds. However, most of them are too technical or too theological for many people. And frequently it may be difficult to see the value of a given discovery for Bible study. In … Continue reading “MAGAZINE
REVIEWS”

Siegfried Horn Dr. Gabriel Barkay conducted three seasons of excavations on the slope of the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, Just north of St. Andrew’s Church in south Jerusalem, between the years 1975 and 1980. During these years he uncovered a large number of ancient tombs from several historical periods. Most of them had been robbed or … Continue reading “THE
MYSTERY OF THE SILVER SCROLLS”

David Livingston We recognize that there is considerable difference of opinion on this subject even among evangelical Christians. Without going into the variety of interpretations, we feel there are some basic “givens” that must be taken into account when deciding how long a day was in the Creation Account. 1. The definition of a “day.” … Continue reading “HOW
LONG ARE THE ‘DAYS’ OF GENESIS 1?”

Bryant G. Wood1 The revetment wall of Jericho City IV uncovered by Kathleeen Kenyon. (Photo courtesy of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.) BSP 0 (Autumn 1987) p. 7 Since Jericho has a copious spring (Ain es-Sultan, “Elisha’s Spring”) and a favorable climate, the growing of crops is relatively easy. Because of this, the … Continue reading “UNCOVERING
THE TRUTH AT JERICHO”

Bob Boyda The subject of archaeology, or the science of archaeology, especially as it relates to the Bible, is a valuable tool in giving to us living messages from a buried past. Our Western minds, ignorant of biblical customs, which are Eastern, fred archaeology helpful in illuminating many portions of Scripture. By providing abundant material … Continue reading “THE
ROMANCE OF ARCHAELOGY”

We welcome you to the Premiere Issue of Archaeology and Biblical Research. We hope you will profit from reading it, and we are open to your suggestions for improvement. Elsewhere in this issue we lay out our plans for its content. You may be a little confused by the similarity between our magazine’s title and … Continue reading “FROM
THE EDITOR”

Sherman E. Johnson [Sherman E. Johnson is Dean Emeritus, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, CA.] I “.. . and in Antioch the disciples were first dubbed Christians” (Acts 11:26). The ending -ianos in Greek, ianus in Latin, meant a partisan or follower of someone, possibly in a good sense but not necessarily so. … Continue reading “ANTIOCH,
THE BASE OF OPERATIONS”

James F. Strange [James F. Strange is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.] ONE has several options in examining early church history. First he or she needs to define the objectives of the study. But, with those firmly in hand, one then needs to decide what to … Continue reading “DIVERSITY
IN EARLY PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANITY, SOME ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES”

William H. Shea A number of debates have swirled around the book of Esther in the centuries since it was written. Both Jewish rabbis and the fathers of the early Christian Church debated whether it should even belong in the canon of Scripture. (One reason that the Christians questioned its canonicity was that New Testament … Continue reading “ESTHER
AND HISTORY”

D. Brent Sandy [Dr. Sandy is Associate Professor of Greek at Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana.] Current Status It is only in the last two decades that Palestinian archaeologists have begun to give proper attention to the remains of the New Testament period. Archaeology as a careful scientific discipline has been at work in … Continue reading “UPDATE
ON NEW TESTAMENT ARCHAEOLOGY”