Museum Lecture Series
Past Lectures
We have been privileged to host lectures by the following (listed in alphabetical order with lecture titles):
Averbeck, Richard
Building a House for God in the World of the Bible
Barkay, Gabriel
Artifacts from the Temple Mount
Bazak, Jacob
Numerical Devices as Literary Ornaments in the Book of Psalms
Bienkowski, Piotr
Tribes, Towns, and Trade: The Late Iron Age in Southern Jordan and the Negev
Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians in Jordan
Borowski, Oded
The Iron Age at Tell Halif
Borstad, Karen A.
The Kings' Highway: Its Role in the Holy Land in Biblical Times
Brand, Peter
Preserving Egypt's Threatened Past: The Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project
Bucheim, Paul
Geology and Fossils of an Ancient Lake System: The Green River Formation of Southwestern Wyoming
Bull, Robert J.
Caesarea Maritima: Capital of Roman Palestine in Jesus' Day
Bullard, Reuben
Infant Sacrifice Among the Canaanites and Phoenicians as Indicated at Gezer and Charthage- Campbell, Edward F.
Archaeology at Shechem: A Case Study in Biblical Archaeology - Carswell, John
Architecture and Environment in the Near East - Chartkoff, Joseph L.
The Dawn of Farming in the Near East 
Chavalas, Mark W.
Terqa: The Middle Euphrates Region of Syria during the Time of the Patriarchs
Clark, Douglas
Religious and Domestic Life at the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan- Cummings, Eryl A.
The Recent Search for Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat 
Daviau, Michele
Temples and Towns in Moab
Demsky, Aaron
The Tel Dan "House of David" Inscription
Dever, William G.
Archaeology and Popular Religions in Ancient Israel
Fading Glory?: The Recent Controversy over Israel's Davidic Monarchy
DeVries, Bert
Umm el-Jimal: the Ghost Black City of the Jordanian Desert
Archaeology in Jordan after the Gulf War- Eadie, John W.
Cult and Social Regulations in Iron I Israel: The View from Ta'anach - Filas, Francis L.
A Theologian Looks at the Shroud of Turin 
Frick, Frank S.
Cult and Social Regulations in Iron I
Israel: The view from Ta'anach
Gane, Connie
Nineveh's Last Stand: Assyrian Bones and the Gate of Doom
Babylonian Symposium (with Students)
Gane, Roy
Reconstructing a Sennacherib Prison Recently Found at Nineveh, Iraq
Geraty, Larry T.
Report on the 1987 Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Umeiri
An Ammonite City Continues to Reveal its Secrets: Tell el-Umeiri, 1989
Gerber, Yvonne
The Daily Life of the Nabataeans (Swiss-Liechtenstein Excavations at Petra, Jordan)
Gilmour, Garth
The Archaeology of Cult in Early Iron Age Palestine: A Methodological Approach
The Archaeology of the Philistines in Iron II: National and Economic Revival under Assyrian Domination
Goldfried, Howard P.
Herod's Fortress and the Zealot's Last Stand
Graham, Andrew
Showdown at Moab
Gregor, Paul
Jalul Excavations: Recent Findings (with Paul Ray and students)
Grunewald, Mathilde
Medieval Pilgrimage
Herr, Larry G.
Digging Up One of the Lost Tribes
Where O Where Have the Amorites Gone?: Tall al-'Umayri and the Bible
Hess, Richard S.
Rahab's Name and Other Textual Evidence Regarding the Historical Context of Joshua
Between the Sand and the Sea: Israel's Sojourn in the Wilderness
Hoerth, Al
Ancient Games People Played
The Worlds of Abraham
Hoffmeier, James K.
Moses vs. Pharaoh: an Egyptologist's Perspective
The Excavations at Tell el-Borg, Sinai: New light on the Route of the Exodus
Horn, Siegfried H.
Heshbon in the Bible and Archaeology
The Mesha Inscription: Its Bearing on Moab in the 9th Century- Hubbard, Reuben
Health and Medical Practice in Ancient Egypt - Hudson, Stanley
Coins of the Bible Lands 
Ibrahim, Moawiyah
Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Yemen
Irving, Dorothy
The Well Dressed Ammonite Woman- Isaac, Benjamin H.
Judaea Between the First and Second Jewish Revolts 
Johnson, Cale
The Invention of Writing in Mesopotamia
Johnston, Robert M.
A Theologian's First Visit to the Holy Land- Khairy, Nabil
Petra and the Culture of the Nabataeans 
Kingbeil, Gerald
Getting the Big Picture: Surveys in Archaeology
LaBianca, Øystein S.
Let the City of Sihon Be Repaired: Plans for Restoration and Preservation of Tall Hisban (Biblical Heshbon)
Anthropology and Biblical Archaeology: The View from Tall Hisban
40 Years at Hesban (Biblical Heshbon?)- Lapp, Nancy
Excavations on the Dead Sea Plain, 1990 - Livingston, David
The Search for Biblical Ai - Loffreda, Stanislao
Recent Excavations at Capernaum 
London, Gloria
Ceramic Folk Art in Cyprus and Jordan- Lynn, Donald J.
A Scientist Looks at the Shroud of Turin 
MacDonald, Burton
The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey, West-Central Jordan
Machinist, Peter
Nahum and the Fall of Nineveh: Prophet Vindicated and Conqueror Conquered
Master, Daniel
Searching for Solomon in the Archaeological Record (with John Monson)
Mattingly, Gerald L.
The Archaeology of Transjordan and Conquest-Settlement
Recent Archaeological Research in Ancient Moab and the Karak Resources Project
Merling, David
The Monastery, the Manuscript and the Mountain
Meyers, Eric
Everyday Life in Roman Palestine
Milgrom, Jacob
Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for the Extent and Nature of Idolatry in 8th and 7th Century Judah- Miller, J. Maxwell
Two Centuries of Archaeological Exploration in Ancient Moab - Monson, John
Searching for Solomon in the Archaeological Record (with Daniel Master) 
Ninow, Friedbert
At the Fringes of the Moabite Plateau: New Discoveries in Ancient Moab
Nitowski, Eugenia L.
Mt. Carmel Project — 1988
Ortiz, Steven M.
House of David or the Tent of David? Current Issues and Trends in Biblical Archaeology
Recent Excavations at Gezer, Israel- Pettinato, Giovanni
Update on Ebla Tablet Research 
Platt, Elizabeth E.
A Morning in Abraham's Town- Pott, Kenneth
Recent Archaeology Work in Lake Michigan: a 19th Century Schooner! - Rast, Walter E.
Bab edh-Dhra: Is It Biblical Sodom? 
Rainey, Anson F.
Pictures of Israelites found in Egypt?
Bringing the Bible Down to Earth — The Disciplines of Historical Geography: An Approach to Everyday Life of Ancient Israel
From Where Did the Israelites Come?
Ray, Paul
Update on Tall Hisban
The Jesus Tomb (with Randall Younker)
Jalul Excavations: Recent Findings (with Paul Gregor and students)- Reeves, John
X-Raying the Pharaohs 
Rendsburg, Gary Al
Reading the Abraham Story
Ritmeyer, Leen
The Temple and the Rock-Where the Ark of the Covenant stood in Solomon's Temple and A Square of 500 Cubits — Locating the Original Temple Mount- Runia, David
Philo of Alexandria and the Founding of Two Cities 
Salem, Hamed
The Current State of Archaeology in the Palestinian Teritories
Sauer, James A.
The Relationship Between Archaeology and Biblical Studies- Schaub, Thomas
Recent Excavations at Khanazir, Jordan 
Schoville, Keith
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Recent Controversies
The Contribution of Archaeology to Biblical Studies
Seger, Joe D.
Tell Halif — Bottom to Top Excavations of the 1992-93 Seasons
Shea, William
Traces of Israelites in Sinai
Sennacherib: One Campaign or Two?
History and Inscription
Where Was Jesus Crucified and Resurrected?- Shiloh, Yigal
New Archaeological Discoveries in the City of David — Biblical Jerusalem 
Sigrist, Marcel
The Cuneiform Archive of Drehem and Ur III Administration
Snow, Timothy
Abila at the Time of Jesus
Stern, Ephraim
The Archaeology of Tel Dor, the Biblical Seaport
Storfjell, J. Bjørnar
The Use of Coins in Archaeological Dating
The Crescent and the Cross: Christianity Gives Way to Islam
Ceramic Development of the Byzantine through Crusader Period- Syphers, C. Erwin
A Pictorial Visit to Petra 
Tappy, Ron
Tel Zayit in the Early Iron II Period: A Biblical City on the Border of Judah
Terian, Abraham
Digging for Lost Works in a Medieval Archive
The Coins of Heshbon
The Religious Relics of the First Christian Nation- Toueir, Kassem
Ebla and Its Importance In Syrian Archaeology 
Tsouparopoulou, Christina
What Can These Tiny Clay Tablets Tell Us About Ancient Drehem?
Tubb, Jonathan N.
Recent Excavations at Tell es Sydiah
van der Steen, Eveline
Traveling With the Bedouin: A Journey into Iron Age Transjordan
Vaughn, Andrew
The Success of Hezekiah: A New Look at Hezekiah's Success Following Sennacherib's Campaign- Walton, John
The Mesopotamian Background of the Tower of Babel 
Waterhouse, S. Douglas
The Hesban Tombs- Weiss, Herold
Renewed Excavation at Capernaum, the City Jesus Loved 
Wiseman, Donald J.
Archaeology and the Book of Jonah
The Bible and Archaeology
Wolff, Samuel
Tel Megadin: A Multi-period Site on the Carmel Coast, Israel
Wood, Bryant
Uncovering the Truth at Jericho: A Comparison of the Archaeological and Biblical History of Jericho in the Late Bronze Age
In Search of Biblical Ai: Khirbet Mukatir
New Evidence for Israel in Egypt
More New Evidence for Israel in Egypt
Yamauchi, Edwin
Babylon and the Bible
Younger, Lawson
The "Lost Tribes" of Israel in the Light of Recent Discoveries
Younker, Randall W.
New Insights on the Biblical Ammonites
Jalul Excavations: 1992 and 1994
Did David Really Exist: Sensational Finds and Controversy Over Israel's Greatest King
In the Trenches: The Battle Between Archaeology and Biblical Criticism
Adventist Contributions to Archaeology
The Jesus Tomb (with Paul Ray)
Is the Bible Historically Reliable?
Zadok, Ran
The Earliest Diaspora: The Judeans in Babylonia and Their Neighbors- Zayadine, Fawzi
Recent Excavations at the Amman Citadel and Iraq el Amir
As-Sela of Edom and the Rock of the Nabataeans