The November/December 2016 Biblical Archaeology Review As the days grow shorter and colder, grab your favorite hot beverage and reading material to transport you to warmer lands. Journey to the ancient world with the November/December 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.  Travel to Biblical Jordan with Joel S. Burnett in the lead article, "Ammon, Moab and Edom: Gods and Kingdoms East of the Jordan." During the Iron Age, when Israel and Judah ruled Canaan, the kingdoms of Ammon, Moab and Edom ruled east of the Jordan River. They and their gods are featured in the Bible. Recent archaeological discoveries vastly increase our understanding of these kingdoms and their religion.
Then cross to the west side of the Jordan River in "Pigs as an Ethnic Marker?" by Lidar Sapir-Hen and explore the ancient diet of the Israelites, Judahites and Philistines. It has been thought that Israelites and Judahites didn't eat pigs—but that Philistines did. Therefore if you are excavating and find lots of pig bones at your site, it can't be Israelite—or can it? A new survey brings this conventional wisdom into question with surprising results.
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Journey to one of the world's holiest sites—Jerusalem's Temple Mount—with Gabriel Barkay and Zachi Dvira in "Relics in Rubble: The Temple Mount Sifting Project." Although archaeological excavations are prohibited there, the Islamic trust that controls the Islamic structures on the Temple Mount bulldozed a massive area in the southeastern corner of the site in November 1999 and dumped the excavated debris into the Kidron Valley. Barkay and Dvira are running a pioneering project to wet-sift this debris to search for artifacts from the Temple Mount.  Walk the ancient floors of the Temple Mount with Frankie Snyder, Gabriel Barkay and Zachi Dvira in "What the Temple Mount Floor Looked Like." More than a hundred colorful polished stone tiles have been recovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. These tiles reveal what the Temple Mount floors looked like in Herod's time. They were paved in a technique called opus sectile. Your voyage through history doesn't stop there! Also included in this issue are the First Person column "Why Consult Scholarship to Judge 'Jesus' Wife' Fragment?" by Hershel Shanks; the Biblical Views column "Unholy Ink: What Does the Bible Say about Tattoos?" by Mark W. Chavalas; the Archaeological Views column "Turkey's Treasures in Trouble" by Mark R. Fairchild; and a review by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott of The Cities That Built the Bible (New York: HarperOne, 2016) by Robert R. Cargill. The November/December 2016 issue also features the Bible in the News column "So It Sayeth" by Leonard J. Greenspoon; this column is the last in the long-running series of "Bible in the News" columns. We deeply appreciate Leonard Greenspoon's years of service, as do his loyal readers. Visit us online at Bible History Daily to see the latest news in Biblical archaeology, as well as additional articles and videos about key Bible and archaeology topics, including an exclusive blog post by Mary Joan Winn Leith that explains the roots of "The Cherry Tree Carol" in early Christian Syrian churches. Additionally, learn more about the archaeology of Jordan in our free eBook Exploring Jordan: The Other Biblical Land and more about the Temple Mount in the BAS Temple Mount Special Collection. If you haven't tried the BAR Tablet Edition yet, check it out by downloading our highly-rated app, available on iPad, Android and Kindle Fire tablets. And be sure to explore the BAS Library, which features every article ever published in BAR, Bible Review and Archaeology Odyssey, all footnoted articles in BAR Notables and Special Collections of articles curated by BAS editors.
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