Biblical Archaeology Review
March/April 1997 • Volume 23 Number 2
BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997
- Defusing Pseudo-Scholarship
- The Siloam Inscription Ain’t Hasmonean
- Spelling Differences and Letter Shapes Are Telltale Signs
- By Jo Ann Hackett
- Because They Can’t See a Difference, They Assert No One Can
- By Frank Moore Cross
- Paleo-Hebrew vs. Old Hebrew: The Long and the Short of It
- By Frank Moore Cross
- No Trained Epigraphist Would Confuse the Two
- By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
- They Would Change the Dates of Clearly Stratified Inscriptions—Impossible!
- By Ada Yardeni
- Are We Prepared to Raze the Edifice?
- By André Lemaire
- Some Paleographic Success Stories
- By Esther Eshel
- Philology Recapitulates Paleography
- By Avi Hurvitz
- Features
- Underground Metropolis: The Subterranean World of Maresha
- By Amos Kloner
- Maresha Through the Years
- The Olive Oil Factory
- Edomite Wedding Vows
- By Esther Eshel and Amos Kloner
- Fake! The Many Facets of the Forger’s Art
- By Gusta Lehrer-Jacobson
- How Forgers Reduce Site Looting
- By Hershel Shanks
- Gaza Report
- By Hershel Shanks
- New Orleans Gumbo
- By Hershel Shanks
- Backward Glance: The Ur-Archaeologist
- By Edward M. Luby
- Departments
- First Person: How to Know More and More About Less and Less
- By Hershel Shanks
- Strata
- ReViews
- PreViews
- Authors
- WorldWide
- Queries & Comments
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