Michael G. Hasel,
Michael G. Hasel, Ph.D., is the director of the Institute of Archaeology and professor of Near Eastern studies and archaeology at Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee, United States.
Articles by Michael G. Hasel,
Archaeology and the Authority of the Bible
March 2012
In 1986, Professor Gabriel Barkay was introducing a new groundbreaking discovery made at Ketef Hinnom, a burial site southwest of Jerusalem, where the oldest biblical inscription was found. Along with hundreds of Old Testament scholars,…
Daniel Survives the critics' den
January 1979
The renewed interest in the apocalyptic is sparking a reassessment of the book of Daniel. 1 This is as it should be, for the book holds a most honored place in the Bible. No other contains such far-reaching predictions…
New discoveries at Philistine Ekron
March 1998
During the past two decades, archaeological excavations have vividly illuminated the Philistine culture, perhaps more than any other ancient culture of biblical times. To date excavations conducted at Ashdod, Ashkelon,…
A king's offering for the "house of the Lord"
December 2000
Solomon's temple was undoubtedly one of the most august and opulent buildings of the ancient world. The finest building materials of cedar and Cyprus came from Lebanon (1 Kings 10:11,12).
Skilled Phoenician…
Old and new: continuity and discontinuity in God's everlasting covenant
March 2007
Many Christians distinguish the old and new covenants as “covenant of works” and “covenant of grace.”1 The words grace and works indicate for a lot of people the radical distinction between two ways of salvation—one…