The synthesis of biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory provides a
bioarchaeological model to reconstruct nuanced aspects of demography, diet, disease …

Physical anthropologists" look for life in patterns of death"'by syn-thesizing biology and
culture into a biocultural framework for viewing the past. Skeletal and dental remains offer a …

The texts in the Hebrew Bible dealing with old age and the elderly should be understood in
light of multiple contexts—the socioeconomic settings of real life in ancient Israel; the …

This paper offers a review of bioarchaeological research on human mobility during the
Hellenistic and Roman period in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. This period was …

In the ancient world, the average life expectancy was far lower than that in the western world
today. There are some biblical characters, however, even in the New Testament, who lived …

Babatha, a Judean woman from the early second century CE, hid a satchel of thirty-five legal
papyri in a cave in Wadi Ḥever on the Dead Sea around 135 CE. This article argues that she …

Betrachtet man den Masoretischen Psalter als Buch, fällt auf, dass es sich nicht um eine
zufällige Zusammenstellung von Texten verschiedener Gattungen handelt, sondern diesem …

In the Theologie des Psalters-project initiated by Professor Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and now
carried ably to its completion by Professor Ulrich Berges, Johannes Bremer, and Till Magnus …

Two animal bones from the so-called 'Bone Burials' were submitted to DNA to be used as
genetic markers to identify the animal whose bones were buried. The second aim of this …

More ink has been spilt over the cemeteries of Qumran than all the blood in the forty bodies
excavated there. The controversy, such as it is, is based on the studies of the forty bodies so …