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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Herod exhibition and BAS

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY (BAS) has put up a couple of posts this week on the Herod the Great exhibition at the Israel Museum:

Herod the Great—The King’s Final Journey
Take a closer look at the exhibit with a web-exclusive slideshow
(Suzanne F. Singer)
The Israel Museum’s exhibit Herod the Great—The King’s Final Journey guides visitors through the Herodian world and the end of the illustrious king’s life, as brought to light by the late archaeologist Ehud Netzer. Read the article “Herod the Great—The King’s Final Journey” by Suzanne F. Singer as it appears in the March/April 2013 issue of BAR , and take a look at additional web-exclusive highlights from the exhibit in the Bible History Daily slideshow.
Ehud Netzer Publications Available to Public
Rediscover Herod's tomb through archaeologist Ehud Netzer's scholarship
(Noah Wiener)
In a commemoration of the scholarship of Ehud Netzer, Biblical Archaeology Society has made a special collection of his groundbreaking scholarship from the BAS Library available for free.
Background on the exhibition is here and links.