The E-Journal of The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Bible Lands E-Review (BLER), the on-line journal of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, is a peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to presenting current research on the civilizations of the Bible and Ancient Israel, Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East and the Classical World. [read more]

Complete Archive (by author)

Aster, Shawn Zelig

• Judah’s Reaction to the Babylonian Exile; (BLER 2017/S1)

Baruchi-Unna, Amitai

• Return to your Temple! The Prayer of Assurbanipal of Assyria to Marduk in the Inscription L4 and the Communal Sumerian-Akkadian Lamentations (Hebrew, English Abstract);  (BLER 2014/S2)

Boardman, John

• The Triumph of Dionysis; (BLER 2013/L1)
• Gold; (BLER 2012/L2)

Elior, Rachel

• From the Shofar of Excommunication to the Shofar of the Messiah (Hebrew); (BLER 2012/L1)

Forti, Tova

• “Four are among the tiniest on earth, Yet they are the wisest of the wise.” (Proverbs 30:24): Animal Imagery from the Perspective of the Wisdom Literature (Hebrew); (BLER 2014/S1)

Gabbay, Uri

• A 7th Century BCE Collector of Cuneiform Tablets: King Ashurbanipal’s Library at Nineveh (Hebrew); (BLER 2018/L1)
• What Do We Know About the Music of Early Mesopotamia? (Hebrew); (BLER 2015/L2)

Gheva, David

• Fishing Rights in the Early Rabbinic Literature; (BLER 2017/S3)
• Fish for the Jewish High Holidays in Fifth Century BCE Babylonia
  and Some Further Thoughts on Al-Yahudu; (BLER 2017/S2)

Goodnick Westenholz, Joan

• A Glimpse into Everyday Life in Syria in the 24th Century BCE; (BLER 2012/S1)

Horowitz, Wayne

• Fish for the Jewish High Holidays in Fifth Century BCE Babylonia
  and Some Further Thoughts on Al-Yahudu; (BLER 2017/S2)
• ‘Sweeter Than Camel’s Milk’: The Camel in Sumerian, The Bactrian Camel in Genesis?; (BLER 2014/S3)
• Joan Goodnick Westenholz and The Great Wall – A Tribute; (BLER 2013/L2)
• The Shofar and The Ancient Near East; (BLER 2012/S3)

Levin, Yigal

• Theophoric Names with the Element ‘Baal’ in Early Israel: An Updated View in Light of the ‘Eshbaal’ Inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa; (Hebrew); Yigal Levin, (BLER 2018/L2)

Maurey, Yossi

• History of Music – Where Do We Start?; (Hebrew); (BLER 2015/L1)

Nys, Nadine

• “Girtablullû and Co: A New Function of the Scorpion-Man
  in the Ancient Near East;  (BLER 2016/S1)

Oshima,Takayoshi

• BLMJ 2700: A Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seal with a Mythological Battle:
  A Question on the Identity of the Four-Winged God on Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Seals ; (BLER 2015/S1)
• BLMJ 2789: A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal with a Healing Scene in a Reed Hut; (BLER 2013/S1)

Uchitel, Alexander

• Two New Neo-Elamite Inscriptions on Silver Rhytons; (BLER 2012/S2)

Vukosavović, Filip

• Joan Goodnick Westenholz and The Great Wall – A Tribute; (BLER 213/L2)
• A Nebuchadnezzar II Barrel Cylinder: The Restoration of Ebabbar in Sippar; (BLER 2012/S4)

Wainer, Zackary M.

• Janus Parallelism in Šulgi V; (BLER 2013/S2)