Lawrence T. Geraty

THIRTY-SIX ministers, evangelists, Bible teachers, administrators, doctors, editors, and laymen from ten countries (United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Oki nawa, Germany, Britain, and Bermuda) participated…

EACH YEAR The Ministry provides its readers with a brief review of the most recent books in the field of Biblical archeology, history, and geography. Last month we began a review of significant works published during 1973 and 1974. We continue…

EACH YEAR The Ministry provides its readers with a brief review of the most recent books in the field of Biblical archeology, history, and geography. The last such review appeared in the March, 1974, issue but covered only those…

THOSE who desire to keep abreast of new developments in archeology may be interested in a brief report of the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and its progeny, the American Schools of Oriental Research, both of which met…

THE MARCH, 1973, Ministry carried a similar review of books published in 1971. It was so well received at that time that the author has again provided us with brief introductions to the most significant scholarly books in the field…

ANDREWS UNIVERSITY sponsored the third season of excavations at Tell Hesban in Jordan from June 20 to August 15, 1973, with a staff of 57 and about 120 local workmen. The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), which has done more for…

IN ORDER to describe the results of this last summer's excavation in greater detail, we will start from the earliest occupational evidence at Tell Hesban and proceed to the most recent.

Iron I Period

The earliest evidence…

p>BY NOW, most readers of this journal will know that Andrews University has been sponsoring the archeological excavation of Tell Hesban, the important Biblical site of Heshbon situated within view of Mount Nebo and about fifteen…

ARCHEOLOGISTS continue to make significant discoveries in various parts of the Middle East, according to reports presented at the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. The following…

THE Biblical evidence considered last month indicated that the high place was a cultic installation borrowed initially from the Canaanites but frequented through out the history of Israel—both in the service of Yahweh as well as in the service…

GENERATIONS of Bible students have puzzled over the unfamiliar practices associated with the "high places" mentioned in the Old Testament. What were they and where were they located? What really went on in mountaintop "groves"? What were…

EACH year THE MINISTRY provides its readers with a brief review of the most recent books in the field of Biblical archeology and related topics. The last such review appeared in the July and August, 1975, issues. Unless otherwise noted, this…

THE purpose of this essay is to provide the busy pastor and evangelist with a brief introduction to the most significant scholarly books produced in 1971 that have a bearing on our understanding of the Old Testament,…

IN THE spring of 1972 the scholarly world was caught by surprise when in Italy a Spanish papyrologist (with an Irish name) working on Greek papyri found in Jordan (near a Jewish sectarian settlement from the Roman period) announced that he…

BESIDES THE stratigraphical and architectural goals for Areas A-D on the acropolis of the tell, the results of which were summarized in the March issue, there were a number of related objectives.

Cemeteries.…

WITH MOST of its goals reached, the fifth season of archeological excavations at Biblical Heshbon (traditionally identified with Tell Hesban, some sixteen miles southwest of modern Amman, in Jordan) came to an official close on…

SEVERAL important new archeological discoveries of interest to students of the Bible were announced at the recent annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research and Society of Biblical Literature in St. Louis, Missouri,…

Regular readers of THE MINISTRY will already know of the existence of The Biblical Archaeology Review (see MINISTRY, November, 1976, p. 28), but now that it has completed its third year of publication and thereby "shown…

Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1880, some Jewish boys were playing in the vicinity of Jerusalem's Pool of Siloam, near the southern end of the hill called Ophel. One of their number—reportedly named Jacob—accidentally fell into…

Ten years ago, The World of Archeology and Science was inaugurated as a regular feature of MINISTRY. In that January, 1973, issue we assured our readers, "With the veritable archeological explosion now taking place in Palestine (some…

It is a truism in archeology that the unexpected invariably turns up on a dig. This was again borne out during Andrews University's new field effort in Jordan during the summer of 1984. A seventy-five-member staff (see photo 1) centered their…