Tag Archives: Biblical Archaeology

Micah, the Messiah, the ox and critique of power

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Tim Frank

‘But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,    though you are small among the clans of Judah,out of you will come for me    one who will be ruler over Israel,whose origins are from of old,    from ancient times.’ Therefore Israel will be abandoned    until the time when she … Continue reading →

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State power and the death of a man

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Tim Frank

The recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands (or rather knees) of police officers has caused a wave of protests around the world. The protesters expressed their outrage at police violence and racism. Even though many other … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Food Storage in Ancient Houses

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Tim Frank

Recently an article I wrote was published on the ASOR blog Ancient Near East Today. It discusses some of the issues with visualizations in archaeology.

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The destruction of archaeological sites

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Tim Frank

Right after development and artefact robbing, one of the main threats to archaeological sites is dirt bikes, or off-road motor cycles. Particularly archaeological sites in reserves are often at risk from dirt bike riders, if there are no expensive enforcement … Continue reading →

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50 years directing archaeological excavations in Israel

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Tim Frank

Yesterday I attended an event in honour of Professor Joe D Seger, celebrating 50 years of directing archaeological excavations in Israel. As a student at Harvard University, Joe Seger participated in excavations at Shechem, then Jordanian territory. He was a … Continue reading →

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Funnels and food storage

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Tim Frank

Earlier this year Avraham Faust published the article Funnels as indicators of storage activities in the Iron II Southern Levant (Oxford Journal of Archaeology 38(1):80-104). Based on observations at Tel ‘Eton, he suggested that larger funnels with a diameter of … Continue reading →

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Tel Batash (Timnah) House 950

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Tim Frank

I’ll add pictures of one more visualization completed as part of my study into household food storage. These pictures are from a reconstruction of House 950 at Tel Batash, often identified with Timnah on the border between Judah and Philistine … Continue reading →

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Tell Halif K8 House

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Tim Frank

Another house I studied at Tell Halif, was the K8 house. This was considerably smaller. Its front section was well preserved, but back rooms had been eroded. Some of the excavators thought that the artefacts recovered from the house may … Continue reading →

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Tell Halif F7 House

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Tim Frank

In my book Household Food Storage in Ancient Israel and Judah I investigated several archaeological examples of houses. As part of that I also made some visualisations of the houses, which can be viewed here. The visualisations were used to … Continue reading →

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Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Tim Frank

My book “Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah” has been published by Archaeopress. It is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation completed for the University of Bern. It explores household food storage by looking at texts, pictorial … Continue reading →

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