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First Person

• Hershel Shanks, “Archaeology’s Dirty Secret,” BAR, September/October 1994.
• Eilat Mazar, “Hadrian’s Legion: Encamped on the Temple Mount,” BAR, November/December 2006.
• “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR, March/April 1994.
• BAR Interview: Avraham Biran, “Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan,” BAR, July/August 1987.
• Avraham Biran, “Tel Dan Scepter Head” BAR, January/February 1989.
• John C.H. Laughlin, “The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan,” BAR, September/October 1981.
• Thomas E. Levy and Mohammad Najjar, “Condemned to the Mines” BAR, November/December 2011.
• Thomas E. Levy and Mohammad Najjar, “Edom and Copper,” BAR, July/August 2006.
• Avraham Biran, “‘And David Sent Spoils...to the Elders of Aroer,’” BAR, March/April 1983.

Strata

• Werner Eck, “Hadrian’s Hard-Won Victory,” BAR, September/October 2007.
• Hanan Eshel“Aelia Capitolina: Jerusalem No More,” BAR, November/December 1997.
• Update: Finds or Fakes? “Major Scholars Protest Eshel Arrest,” BAR, March/April 2006.
• Francesco D’Andria,“Conversion, Crucifixion and Celebration,” BAR, July/August 2011.
• Gabriel Barkay and Amos Kloner,“Jerusalem Tombs from the Days of the First Temple,” BAR, March/April 1986.
• Othmar Keel,“The Peculiar Headrests for the Dead in First Temple Times,” BAR, July/August 1987.
• Gabriel Barkay,“Burial Headrest as a Return to the Womb—A Reevaluation,” BAR, March/April 1988.

Archaeological Views

• Hershel Shanks, First Person: “The Bible as a Source of Testable Hypotheses,” BAR, July/August 2011.
• Eilat Mazar, “Did I Find King David’s Palace?” BAR, January/February 2006.
• Hershel Shanks, “Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers,” BAR, July/August 1997.
• Bryant Wood, “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho?” BAR, March/April 1990.
• Abraham Malamat, “How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities,” BAR, March/April 1982.

Join a Dig, See the World

• Lois Sargent, “First Hand: A Poet at Ashkelon,” BAR, January/February 1989.
• Joanne Besonen, “Dig Scholarship: Khirbet Yatir,” BAR, January/February 1999.
• Jennifer Thum, “Armageddon: Even Better the Second Time Around!” in “Digs Go Digital,”BAR, January/February 2009.
• Aren M. Maeir, “Did Captured Ark Afflict Philistines with E.D.?” BAR, May/June 2008.
• Aren M. Maeir and Carl S. Ehrlich, “Excavating Philistine Gath: Have We Found Goliath’s Hometown?” BAR, November/December 2001.
• Yoel Elitzur and Doron Nir-Zevi, “Four-Horned Altar Discovered in Judean Hills,” BAR, May/June 2004.
• “Horned Altar for Animal Sacrifice Unearthed at Beer-Sheva,” BAR, March 1975.

Layers of Ancient Jerusalem

• Philip J. King, “Why Lachish Matters,” BAR, July/August 2005.
• Steven Feldman, “Return to Lachish,” BAR, May/June 2002
• Oded Borowski, Scholar’s Corner: “Yadin Presents New Interpretation of the Famous Lachish Letters,” BAR, March/April 1984.
• Yitzhak Magen, “Ancient Israel’s Stone Age,” BAR, September/October 1998.
• Mark Chancey, “How Jewish Was Jesus’ Galilee?” BAR, July/August 2007.
• Suzanne F. Singer, “The Ancient Cardo Is Discovered in Jerusalem,” BAR, December 1976.
• “Without Avigad’s Pictures—Is the Jerusalem Cardo Roman After All?” BAR, December 1977.
• Nitza Rosovsky, “A Thousand Years of History in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter,” BAR, May/June 1992.

Inn of the Good Samaritan Becomes a Museum

• Suzanne F. Singer, “The Winter Palaces of Jericho,” BAR, June 1977.
• Yitzhak Magen, “Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones—A Samaritan Temple to the Lord on Mt. Gerizim,” BAR, November/December 2010.
• Strata: “King David Gets a Facelift,” BAR, January/February 2011.

When Did Ancient Israel Begin?

• Frank J. Yurco, “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt,” BAR, September/October 1990.
• Avraham Faust, “How Did Israel Become a People?” BAR, November/December 2009.
• Abraham Malamat, “Let My People Go and Go and Go and Go,” BAR, January/February 1998.

Reviews

• Hershel Shanks, “Jerusalem Roundup,” BAR, March/April 2011.