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Recent inspection by the Israel Antiquities Authority has shed light on several issues related to the history of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem:important data has been gathered regarding the charact...

Kedesh, ca. 15 km au nord de Safed, pres de la frontiere israelo-libanaise. La ville a connu son apogee aux II-III ss. apr. J.-C. (ou elle depend de Tyr). Un temple romain occupait la colline a l'Est du tell, aux restes bien conserves. Description: un vaste temenos ou enceinte sacree avec en son centre un temple monumental. Le peribolos du temenos est de plan rectangulaire. Le temple est constitue d'une cella rectangulaire et d'un portique. Trois entrees: au centre, au Nord et au Sud. La decoration de l'architecture continue la tradition hellenistique. D'apres les inscriptions grecques et l'iconographie, le temple etait dedie a Baalshamin, et a ete fonde en 117 ap. J.-C.

Four Greek inscriptions have been discovered to date in the Roman temple complex at Kedesh (Tel Qedesh) in the Upper Galilee.' Two came to light during the last century, while an additional two were discovered in the course of the archaeological excavations of 1981 (Ovadiah a.o. 1982; Fischer, Ovadiah and Roll 1984; Ovadiah, Fischer and Roll 1985). The first two inscriptions were reviewed by the authors in the preliminary report on the excavations (Fischer, Ovadiah and Roll 1984:166-167) which dealt with the architecture and identification of the deity of the temple. In the present article, the epigraphic and chronological aspects are discussed. Since inscription 3 has been fully published (Fischer, Ovadiah and Roll 1982), only its principal aspects are presented here.

For over a century and a half, excavations in Jerusalem have been uncovering segments of the city’s Early Roman period network of streets, particularly the street that wended its way from the south...

The article presents a late Second Temple period Jewish inscription discovered on a column drum at the Binyanei Ha

A Jewish farmstead dated to the 1st–2nd centuries CE was discovered during excavations at Tel Rekhesh in the Lower Galilee. In the centre of the western perimeter wall of the structure, a 9-m-square assembly room with an ashlar block bench along the walls was unearthed. It had an entrance in the north and two bases for pillars in the centre to support a flat roof. Given all these features, it has been suggested that the building was a rural synagogue. If correct, this building is one of a small group of synagogues in the Land of Israel that dates to the late Second Temple period. The proximity of Tel Rekhesh to Nazareth offers another perspective to this discovery—an association with Jesus and his ministry in the Galilee.

The authors introduce new numismatic evidence from a recent excavation at Tel Hebron (Tell Rumeida) which indicates that a Second Temple period settlement was located on the biblical mound. The excavation―which revealed a Hasmonean through Late Roman–Early Byzantine domestic and industrial quarter―sheds new light on the significance and ethnic structure of the town of Hebron, in particular during the Hasmonean and Early Roman periods. The article is the first published numismatic biography of this important site.

AbstractThe article discusses five controversial historical-archaeological topics that appear in historiographical and prophetic texts referring to Jerusalem in the First and Second Temple periods: (1) The location of the Gate of the Guards (Saar hrsim) which, according to the story of the rebellion against Athaliah (2 Kgs 11), connected the palace to the Temple; (2) the significance of the gate's relocation for the placement of the palace and Temple on the Temple Mount; (3) the geographic boundaries of ir dāvīd ('the City of David') at different periods according to some biblical texts, in particular Isa 22:9–11a; (4) the delineation of the new fortification on the Southwestern Hill according to Jer 31:38–40a; (5) the possible location of Migdal-eder (Mic 4:8) in light of 2 Chr 26:9 and Neh 3:24–25.