Brian Peterson reviews the events and discoveries of Week 2 of the Shiloh excavations.
Scott Stripling is interviewed about the excavations at Shiloh on The Land of Israel Network (34 min).
Ferrell Jenkins looks at the importance of Shiloh, the longtime location of the tabernacle.
The Times of Israel has a lengthy follow-up on the study that suggests that the carbon-14 calibration scale for Israel is faulty.
ASOR has posted an update on the severe damage to the site of Ebla in Syria.
Israel is opening a new national natural history museum in Tel Aviv.
Israel’s Good Name went on a tour of the Tel Aviv Zoological Research Institute, a place not normally open to the public.
Aren Maeir has posted the lecture and field trip schedule for the Gath excavations.
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman has posted 9,000 low- to medium- resolution watermarked images from Jordan and the surrounding region, including many taken by Jane Taylor.
Wayne Stiles writes about an important event at the Water Gate in Jerusalem.
Ron Traub writes about the Baram synagogue near the northern border of Israel.
Leon Mauldin is visiting Rome and sharing photos.
Mitchell First has written an article on “The Earliest Surviving Texts of the Torah” for Jewish Link of New Jersey.
The Vatican Library has made 15,000 manuscripts available online, with another 65,000 to come in the next couple of decades.
The ESV Archaeology Study Bible has some recent video posts of interest:
- Not Exactly Indiana Jones
- How Pastors Can Benefit from Studying Archaeology
- The Everyday Object Biblical Archaeology Depends Upon
- How to Incorporate Biblical Archaeology into Your Preaching
“The Biblical Archaeology Society is now accepting applications for the 2018 Joseph Aviram, Yigael Yadin, and Hershel Shanks fellowships that allow scholars to attend the annual meetings” of ASOR and SBL. (The announcement mentions that Aviram, at age 102, is still the president of IES!)
Norma Dever died on Thursday. William Dever writes an obituary that may surprise you.
HT: Charles Savelle, Agade, Joseph Lauer
