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Contents • July / August 2008
A Bedouin shepherd girl of the Sinai demonstrates her musical ability on the flute. In “Wilderness Wanderings” author Ze’ev Meshel demonstrates that modern Sinai Bedouin have a lot in common with the early Israelites of the Exodus, which gives credibility to the Biblical account.
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Features
By Kenneth Atkinson
DSS/Josephus Excerpts
Salome Alexandra Family Tree (PDF)
By Ze’ev Meshel
Gallery: Bedouin
By Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen
Gallery: Images from Tel Rehov
By Hananya Hizmi
Departments
Help Me! I’m Desperate!
Israel Antiquities Authority vs. Conspiracy of (Alleged) Forgers
Assessing BAR
Emmaus in Danger?
Defending Jezebel’s Seal
Korpel Responds to her Critics
A Text Without a Home
By Ben Witherington III
Letting David Go
By Ryan Byrne
Reality Ruins Impression
Gallery
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
Georgia
Gallery: Artifacts from the Land of the Golden Fleece
Return of the Ancient Mariner
One man’s mission to undertake the greatest sea voyage in 2,600 years.
David Noel Freedman 1922—2008
Renowned Biblical scholar and editor of the Anchor Bible series dies at age 85.
A Letter to David Noel Freedman from Hershel Shanks
Secret Passage Discovered Under Ancient Jerusalem
Refugees from Roman destruction used underground drainage tunnel to escape the doomed city.
What’s New Is Old Again
World’s oldest painting discovered on Syrian cave wall.
What Is It?
Gallery: The Games Played by Ancient Near Easterners
The Bible in the News
Biblical Bubbly
By Leonard J. Greenspoon
Milestones
Levi-Sala Prizes
Sean W. Dever Prize
How Many?
In Their Own Words
Is BAR Fundamentalist?
By Lester L. Grabbe
In History
Special Collections
Faces of Ancient Arabia
From the Land of the Labyrinth
Three Gutenberg Bibles
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Wilderness Wanderings: Ethnographic Lessons from Modern Bedouin
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