**When we updated our blog design earlier this month, we accidentally broke the system that sends posts out by email. With that now fixed, we are re-posting the recent roundups, one part each day through Friday.**
The digs may have stopped, but the stories have not. With no roundups the last two weeks, I have more than 60 items of interest to share in the coming days.
A seal and a seal impression found in Jerusalem are rare discoveries from the Persian period.
“A Second Temple period Jewish ritual bath was discovered by chance last month in the Lower Galilee and a group of locals are trying to save it from its current destiny of destruction.” There’s a video report here.
“A new study carried out on pottery items uncovered in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron suggests the cave . . . was used and visited as a pilgrimage site during the First Temple Period.”
A new study suggests that many cisterns in the Negev may date back not to the Iron Age but to the Bronze Age. (Journal article for purchase here.)
The cancelled archaeology department at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has found a new home at Lipscomb University in Nashville.
Steven Ortiz, formerly of SWBTS, is interviewed by Bryan Windle in the latest in the Discussions with the Diggers series.
Mark Lanier, who helped bring the SWBTS program to Lipscomb, is interviewed on The Book and the Spade.
Moshe Garsiel has proposed a new theory to support the location of Tell es-Sharia as biblical Ziklag.
Aren Maeir visited the excavations at Tel Hadid, which along with Tell Abu Shusha and Tel Azekah, is one of the few excavations in Israel that were not cancelled this summer.
A study claims that buses and shuttles are a better solution than the planned Old City cable car project.
A couple of officials of the City of David organization give a 40-minute tour of the Siloam Pool and the Pilgrimage Road to the Temple Mount.
Biblical Israel Ministries and Tours is hosting a “Top 10 Israel Photos” contest and offering prizes.
Accordance is offering a number of its graphics collections at big discounts, including:
- Bible Lands PhotoGuide (all 6): $74.90
- Pictorial Library of Bible Lands: Cultural Images of the Holy Land: $24.90
- Pictorial Library of Bible Lands: Trees, Plants, and Flowers of the Holy Land: $24.90
- Historic Views of the Holy Land: Views That Have Vanished: $24.90
- Historic Views of the Holy Land: American Colony Collection: $89.90
- Virtual Tour to the Temple: $39.90
- The Virtual Bible (Enhanced): 3D Reconstructions of the Biblical World: $19.90
- The Add-On Bundles include many resources at very good prices ($59; $119).
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Alexander Schick, Ted Weis, Charles Savelle, Jared Clark, Explorator
