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Bible and Spade was first published by Word of Truth Productions for 12 years (1972-83). The Associates for Biblical Research has obtained the back issues of the original Bible and Spade and is now making this valuable information available to Bible students. A wealth of recent archaeological finds related to the Bible is revealed in the pages of Bible and Spade. A number of issues, marked with *asterisks* below, are no longer in stock, but are being made available as photocopies.

WINTER 2008 SALE

Individual Bible and Spade back issues:

Winter 1972-Summer 1998 $1.25 each

Fall 1998-Present $2.75 each

COMPLETE SET Winter 1972-Fall 2007:

120 issues: $179 with Free Shipping in the US.

*Note: Indexes from 1972 through 2005 are still available. Starting in 2006, ABR will no longer be producing hard copies of the Index.

Fall 2007
Incomprehensible • The Manger and the Inn: The Cultural Background of Luke 2:7 • The Star of Bethlehem • Who is Immamuel? • Jesus Celebrates Hanukkah! • The Shroud’s Earlier History Part 2: To The Great City

Summer 2007
Sadness over Saul• Sodom: The Discovery of a Lost City • Locating Sodom: A Critique of the Northern Proposal • Nebo-Sarsekim Found in Babylonian Tablet • The Duration of the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt

Spring 2007
The Ash Heap of History • Identification of Tall el-Hammam on the Madaba Map • The Shroud of Turin's Early History: Part I • The Tomb of King Herod Discovered • Delphi's Influence on the World of the New Testament: Part II- The Oracles of Delphi

Winter 2007
The Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy • Gibeon: Its Archaeological, Geographical and Contextual Significance • Archaeology, Assyrian Reliefs and the Psalms of the Sons of Korah • Delphi's Influence on the World of the New Testament: Part I-Delphi: Center of the World

*Fall 2006*
The Genesis Flood: An Interpretative Key to the Past • Mount Cudi: The True Mountain of Noah's Ark • Wood Remains from the "Landing Site of Noah's Ark" Nearly 6500 Years Old • The Case for Ararat • Why Not Nabatea? The Flight of Joseph's Family from Bethlehem to Egypt and Migration to the Town of Nazareth in Galilee

Summer 2006
Love God with all your Mind! • Biblical Connections at Tell Ta 'yinat, Turkey • Propoganda, Power and Perversion of Biblical Truth: Coins Illustrating the Book of Revelation • Local References in the Letter to Smyrna (Rev 2:8-11) Part IV: Religious Background

Spring 2006
New Evidence from Egypt on the Location of the Exodus Sea Crossing, Part II • Local References in the Letter to Smyrna (Rev. 2:8-11), Part III: Jews in Smyrna • Ezekiel 26:1-14. A Proof Text for Inerrancy or Fallibility of the Old Testament • The Blessing of the Silver Scrolls

Winter 2006
The Wealth and Power of the Biblical Patriarchs • New Evidence from Egypt on the Location of the Exodus Sea Crossing, Part I • Local References in the Letter to Smyrna (Rev. 2:8-11), Part II: Historical Background

Fall 2005
Biblical Archaeology: Eternal Implications • Extra-Biblical Evidence for the Conquest • Archaeologists Fail to Use Sound Reasoning • Which Way Did They Go? The Magi’s Escape from King Herod • Local References in the Letter to Smyrna (Rev. 2:8-11), Part I: Archaeological Background • For Young Archaeologists: Herod the Great

Summer 2005
Pharaoh Merenptah Meets Israel • The Synagogue on the Isle of Delos and the Epistle of James • Archaeologist Says He Has Found St. Paul's Tomb

Spring 2005
Shechem: Its Archaeological and Contextual Significance • Abimelech at Shechem • Excavating with ABR at Hazor • Archaeology is NOT a Treasure Hunt • The Cave of John the Baptist • For Young Archaeologists: David and Goliath

Winter 2005
Israel In Egypt • The Lotus in Ancient Egypt and the Bible • Between the Pillars: Revisiting "Samson and the House of Dagon" • What are lmlk Stamps and What Were They Used For? • Jerusalem Fell in 587 Not 586 BC • Digging with ABR at Hazor • Great Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology: The Mari Archive and the Nuzi Tablets

Fall 2004
The Bible According to Karnak • Papyrus in Ancient Egypt and the Bible • History Unearthed • Gods, Gold and the Glory of Phillipi • Great Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology: The Rosetta Stone and the Law Code of Hammurabi

Summer 2004
Egypt and the Bible • Red Algae Theories of the Plagues, Part 3 • Archaeology: Biblical Ally or Adversary? • Great Discoveries in Bible Archaeology: The Amarna Tablets and the Merneptah Stela

Spring 2004
The Duration of the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt • The Royal Precinct at Ramses • Historical Synchronisms and the Date of the Exodus • Going for the Gold!

Winter 2004
Cultural Change and the Confusion of Language in Ancient Sumer • In Search of Ancient Famines • Red Algae Theories of the Plague, Part 2 • Joshua's "Long Day" and Mesopotamian Celestial Omen Texts • Great Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology: The Atra-Hasis Epic and the Gilgamesh Epic

Fall 2003
Nahum, Nineveh and those Nasty Assyrians • The Prophet's Knowledge of Contemporary Idolatry • Jesus and the Sea of Galilee • Great Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology: The Sumerian King List and the Tell Dan Stela • Going on a Dig: A Fourth Grade Dig Report

Summer 2003
Red Algae-Anthrax Theories of the Ten Plagues: A Scientific Critique, Part 1 • "Large Cities that have Walls Up to the Sky": Canaanite Fortifications in the Late Bronze I Period • Joseph in Egypt, Part 6 • Hazor 2002

Spring 2003
The Exodus Controversy • Amenhotep II as the Pharaoh of the Exodus • The Captives of Amenhotep II • Jericho: Does the Evidence Disprove or Prove the Bible? • Great Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology: The Moabite Stone and Hezekiah's Tunnel • Joseph in Egypt, Part 5 • "We are Standing on 'Holy Ground'" at Kiriath Jearim

Winter 2003
The Joseph Narrative • Joseph in Egypt, Part 4 • Moses and Hatshepsut • History, Archaeology, and Jesus • The Scorpion King • Scorpions-Another Puncturing of the Theory of Evolution

Fall 2002
Joseph in Egypt, Part 3 • Nahr el-Kalb (The Dog River) • The Biblical Cities of Tyre and Sidon • Tyre and the Tell El-Amarna Tablets • The Tyrian Shekel and the Temple of Jerusalem • The Cedars of Lebanon • James Ossuary Surfaces in Jerusalem • Rethinking the Crucified Man from Giv'at Ha-Mivtar • Exploring Bible Times • Review of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

Summer 2002
King Solomon in His Ancient Context • Bones, Burials, and Biblical History: Part III, The Results of Burial Excavation • "At Home in Death": An Archaeological Exposition of Psalm 49:11 • The Bible: Myth or History

Spring 2002
Joseph in Egypt, Part 2 • Golgotha: A Reconsideration of the Evidence • Remains of Herod’s Jerusalem Palace Unearthed • Sharks Puncture the Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium • A Question of Time: Old or Young Earth?

Winter 2002
Did Edom’s Original Territories Extend West of ‘Wadi Arabah? • Evolution and Christian Faith • Bones, Burials, and Biblical History: Part II, The Discovery of Ancient Tombs • Joseph in Egypt, Part 1 • Correlating the Texts of Ancient Literature with the Old Testament

Fall 2001
Bone, Burials and Biblical History, Part I • Saga of “Sardine Sam” • “Meat Offered to Idols” in Pergamom and Thyatira • New Evidence of the “Real” Site of the Temple • A Response to Martin’s “Real” Site of the Temple

Summer 2001
Who was “Nimrod?” • Don’t be a Nimrod! • David Rohl’s Revised Egyptian Chronology • Musical Instruments in Biblical Israel • King David’s Harp • An Effect of Evolutionary Thinking

Spring 2001
The Sacred Precinct on Mt. Gerizim • Samaritan Passover • Archaeological Excavations at the Baptism Site, “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” • The Enigma of the Palm Branch • A Sacred Place • The Resurrection: Reason to Believe or Wishful Thinking?

Winter 2001
Khirbet Nisya 2000 • Socioeconomic Factors in the Success of Early Christianity • Tel Dor: Ruler of the Seas • Ehud’s Escape

Fall 2000
Is Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia? • Digging Mount Sinai From the Bible • Jeroboam II, King of Israel, and Uzziah, King of Judah • The Star of Bethlehem

Summer 2000
Bronze Age Camel Petroglyphs in the Wadi Nasib, Sinai • Seeing the Invisible • Ancient Egyptian Writing Materials and Techniques • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Ben-hadad III, King of Aram and Jehoash, King of Israel

*Spring 2000*
A Tour of Biblical Evidence in the British Museum • Death Before Adam? • The Tel Dan Stela and the Kings of Aram and Israel

Winter 2000
The King and I (Part 3): Opening the Third Seal • The Tomb of Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre • The Shroud of Turin 2000 • The Last Supper in Art and History

Fall 1999
Beth-Aven: A Scholarly Conundrum • Kh. el-Maqatir 1999 Dig Report • The King and I (Part 2): Exiled To Patmos • Does It Matter?

Summer 1999
The Discovery of the Sin Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah • Those Indefatigable Byzantines! • Of Aigos Lot at Deir Ain Abata, Jordan • The Byzantine Church of Khirbet el-Maqatir

*Spring 1999*
The Walls of Jericho • On the Jericho Road • The King and I: The Apostle John and Emperor Domitian, Part 1 • The Acts of the Apostles and the Archaeologists

*Winter 1999*
ABR and the Search For Ai • Is Kh. Nisya the Ai of the Bible? • The Search for Joshua’a Ai: Excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir

Fall 1998
Locating Biblical Bethel • Three Coins From a Mountain • Hanukkah: The Festival of Light • Glittering Gold, Medicinal Myrrh and Fragrant Frankincense

Summer 1998
Noah, His Ark, His Mountain, His City and His Tomb • How Old Are Those Hills? • The Ancient Document Rule and the Flood of Noah’s Day • The Flood and Subsequent Civilization

Spring 1998
The Bible and Extraterrestrial Life • A Study of the Hebrew Word Yom in the Creation Narrative (Genesis 1, 2) • The City of Andrew and Peter: Bethsaida • The World’s Oldest Church: Aqaba, Jordan

Winter 1998
To Sling or Not to Sling – That Was Never The Question • Signals From Space • Gone, But Not Forgotten: The Hurrians and Their Kingdom of the Lion • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Omri, King of Israel

Autumn 1997
How Were Fossils Formed? • Wars and Rumors of War: Evidence of Ancient Edomites • Edomite/Israelite War Strengthened by New Finds • “Does Your Teacher Not Pay the (Temple) Tax?” (Mt. 17:24–27) • Among the Reeds of the Nile

Spring/Summer 1997
Separating Materialist Philosophy From Science • The Archives of Ugarit • Pharaohs and Kings Confused: David Rohl’s New Chronology • Bible Personages in Archaeology:The Sons of Jacob

Winter 1997
Fossil Fantasy • Abraham and the King of Egypt • Thy Servants Take Pleasure in Her Stones • Bible Personages in Archaeology: The Clans of Manasseh

*Autumn 1996*
Cracks in the Evolutionary Facade • Genesis and Ancient Near East Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction, Part 4 • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Ahab the Israelite • The Bible, Archaeology and the Study of Military Affairs

Summer 1996
Fossils in Your Family Tree • Genesis and Ancient Near East Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction, Part 3 • The Mesopatamian Background of the Tower of Babel and Its Implications

*Spring 1996*
Genesis and Ancient Near East Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction, Part 2 • The Lost Ark is Still Lost – But Now We Know Where Its Been! • Paul’s Travels Through Cyprus (Acts 13:4–12) • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Mesha, King of Moab

Winter 1996
What is Man? • Genesis and Ancient Near East Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction, Part 1 • The Historicity of the Joseph Story • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Shishak, King of Egypt

Autumn 1995
Tomb and Teeth: A Dentist’s View of Ancient Israelis • Tell el-’Umeiri • Jerusalem 3000 – A Capital Idea? • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Balaam, Son of Beor

Summer 1995
The Ark of the Covenant: Alive and Well in Ethiopia? • The Ark of the Covenant: Moses’ Secret Weapon • Harold Camping’s Bible Chronology • Crisis in Evolutionary Cosmology • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Jabin, King of Hazar

Spring 1995
The Tabernacle: A Bronze Age Artifact • Re-examining the Late Bronze Era • Bible Personages in Archaeology: Serug, Nahor and Terah • The Shroud of Turin: Evidence for the Resurrection?

Winter 1995
The Hittites of Anatolia • The Archives of Hattusas • Biblical Chronologies Compared

Autumn 1994
Where Did Solomon’s Wealth Go? • Does the Bible Exaggerate Solomon’s Wealth? • Money in the Ancient World • Coins of the Bible

Summer 1994
Response to the “Missing 1000 Years” • Monumental Architecture in Israel • Gezer and the Bible

Spring 1994
Temple of the Lost Ark • King Tut, the Tabernacle and the Ark • A Golden Temple • In Search of Solomons’ Temple Mount

Winter 1994
Abortion: Child Sacrifice of the 90’s • Clash of the Titans • Pop! A New Theory of Origins • Schonfield and the Resurrection

Autumn 1993
Is 1000 Years Missing in the Bible? • Khirbet Nisya Excavation 1993 • New Inscription Mentions “House of David” • Jammal Admits Lying on CBS’s Noah’s Ark Program

*Summer 1993*
Jurassic Park and The Bible • The Search for Ai • Accidental Archaeology • Greatest Fish Stories Ever Told

Spring 1993
Documentary Hypothesis • Modern Medicine: Old! • Caesarea Philippi Excavations • Oldest Horse Statue: Syria

*Winter 1993*
The Big Bang • Date of Noah’s Flood • Archive of Nuppur • “Appearance of Age”

*Autumn 1992*
A Lost Portion of Samuel • The Archive of Mari • New Crucifixion Site • Burying Their Own Dead

Summer 1992
Noah’s Ark: Its Final Berth • Creation Stories of the Ancient Near East • The Archive of Ebla • Computers and the Red Sea Parting

Spring 1992
The Israelites and Ramseses • New Light on Daniel From the Dead Sea Scrolls • Let the Dead Bury Their Own Dead • Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

Winter 1992
Was Adam a Cave Man? • 1991 ABR Excavation Report • Fossilized Human Finger Found • Caiaphas’ Tomb Found

Autumn 1991
Origin of Life: Design or Chance? • Recent Discoveries and the Conquest • Ancient Harbors Around the Sea of Galilee • Who’s Who in Archaeology: William Henry Breasted

Summer 1991
Daniel and the Lion of Babylon • Israelite Kings in Assyrian Inscriptions • A Man and His Cloak • Dead Sea Scrolls Update

Spring 1991
An Object From Solomon’s Temple • Assyrian Kings in the Bible • Anti-Creationists Speak Up - Our Answer • Daniel and His Friends

Winter 1991
Plagues vs. the Gods of Egypt • Mount St. Helens: Geological Laboratory • Weapons of Warfare in Biblical Times • Important Recent Archaeological Finds

Autumn 1990
Which Way Did Israel Go Out? • ABR’s 1990 Excavation Results • Calf Figurine Found Parallels Golden Calf • Fabulous Babylon Excavations

Summer 1990
The Jewish War Correspondent: Josephus • Third Battle of the Dead Sea Scrolls • Attacks From the North • Discovery of the Gilgamesh Epic

Spring 1990
The Fall of the Moon City • Why Talk About Creation? • The Assyrians (Iraqis) Were So Brutal! • Believers Are Winning the Battle for Jericho

Winter 1990
Pylons of Power • The Sons of God • The Pharisees • Rich Assyrian Tomb Finds

Autumn 1989
The Virgin Birth Explored • Biblical Melodies Inspired as Well as Words? • The Bible Was Right: Belshazzar • A Boat From Jesus’ Time is Discovered

Summer 1989
Daniel vs. the Critics • Is the Grand Canyon Young? • Who Was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? • New Light on the Life of Jesus

Spring 1989
Luke the Historian • Soldiers, Spies, Scripture • Biblical Archaeology • Wall and Gate From the Time of Jesus Found in Jerusalem

*Winter 1989*
Qumran • Bible Music • The Resurrection • Divine Healers

Autumn 1988
Has Gomorrah Been Found? • Before They Were Sherds: Pottery in the Bible • Hezekiah’s Tunnel Thwarts Sennacherib • Who’s Who in Archaeology: Layard

Summer 1988
The Exodus/Conquest Mix-Up • Dinosaur and Humans Lived Together • Pottery Making in the Bible • Is There Enough Time for Evolution to Occur?

Spring 1988
Treasures of Egypt • Jesus on Infallibility • Bible Names on Seals • Light from Nuzi

Winter 1988
Is This Noah’s Ark? • Where Are Bethel and Ai? • Has Anyone Created Life in a Test Tube? • Who Wrote Genesis?

Premiere Issue (Autumn 1987)
Discovering the Truth at Jericho • The Mystery of the Silver Scrolls • How Long Were the “Days” of Genesis? • What Does “Baptized for the Dead” Mean?

*Summer/Autumn 1983*
The Flood Story in Bible and Cuneiform Literature • Nabonidus, Belshazzar, and the Book of Daniel • Esther and History • Antioch, The Base of Operations

*Winter/Spring 1983*
Artistic Balance Among the Beni Hasan Asiatics • Sodom and Gomorrah Update • Shiloh - Israel’s First Holy City • Secrets of Cave 25

Spring/Summer/Autumn 1982
In Praise of Ancient Scribes • The Biblical Ammonites, Part II • Solomon in All His Glory • Putting Bethsaida-Julius on the Map

Winter 1982
The Biblical Ammonites, Part I • Archaeology – Confirming the Truth • Israeli Scholars Date Garden Tomb to the Israelite Monarchy

*Summer/Autumn 1981*
The Nuzi Tablets • On the Term Phylacteries • The Shroud of Turin • Baptism in the Early Church

*Spring 1981*
Musical Instruments in Old Testament Worship • From the Brickfields of Egypt • Tarsus and the Apostle Paul • 4,000 Year Old Gate Found Intact at Tel Dan

*Winter 1981*
Capernaum - Jesus’ Own City • Recent Work at Capernaum • Excavations at Tel Acco

*Summer/Autumn 1980*
Ebla: Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research • Coins of the Bible • Archaeology and the Sabbath • Results of the 1979 Season at Sodom and Gomorrah

*Spring 1980*
The Scripts of the Ancient Near East • Archaeology and the Text of the New Testament

*Winter 1980*
The Languages of the Ancient Near East • Israelite Kings in Assyrians' Inscriptions • Herod’s Hideaway

*Summer/Autumn 1979*
Kramer of Sumer • Assyrian Kings in the Bible • Dead Sea Jigsaw • Gethsemane and the Gardens of Jerusalem

*Spring 1979*
Excavations at Lachish • Ebla, Ugarit, and the Old Testament, Part II

*Winter 1979*
Ebla, Ugarit, and the Old Testament, Part I • The Atrahasis Epic, The Genesis Flood, and Capital Punishment • New Excavation Started in the City of David

*Autumn 1978*
The Sinai Peninsula and the Exodus • The Israelites and the King’s Highway • Journey to Pisidia

*Summer 1978*
Ebla - Queen of Ancient Syria • Specialists Help Reconstruct Life in the Cities of the Plain

*Spring 1978*
The Exodus in its Historical Setting • A Greek Golden Treasure • Journey Down the Jabbok

*Winter 1978*
Archaeology and the text of the Old Testament • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Language of Jesus • The Ineffable name of God • Meet Josephus

*Autumn 1977*
The Infant Massacre - History or Myth • The Samaritans - A Living link With the Past, Part II • The Perils of Pergamum • Excavations in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

*Summer 1977*
Adam in Ancient Mesopotamian Traditions • The Samaritans - A Living Link With the Past, Part I • Paul and the Athenians • Ararat ‘Ark’ Wood dated at AD 700

*Spring 1977*
The Generations of Genesis • ‘Crucify Him, Crucify Him’ and the Temple • With the Rich in His Death • Temple Scroll Soon to be Published

*Winter 1977*
More and More, Scripture Lives • Bible Aids Archaeologist in Interpreting Beer-Sheba Discovery • Oldest Hebrew Writing Found • Sodom and Gomorrah Update

*Autumn 1976*
A Journey by Lamplight, Part IV • Solomon’s Gold Mine Believed Found • Erastus Salutes You • 2,800 Year-Old Fortress Found in Sinai

*Summer 1976*
A Journey by Lamplight, Part III • From Syria: Sensational New Collection of Tablets Found • From Israel: Excavations at Aphek-Antipatris

*Spring 1976*
A Journey by Lamplight, Part II • Jerusalem Report:Evidence of Babylonian Siege Found • An Archaeological Context for Understanding John 4:20

*Winter 1976*
A Journey by Lamplight, Part I • City of the Golden Calf • Your Questions Answered

*Autumn 1975*
Cities in Bible Times • The Land of Sheba • Iraq Set to Rebuild the Tower of Babel • Your Questions Answered

*Spring/Summer 1975*
Sennacherib, Hezekiah, and a “Biblical Problem” • Water Systems of Ancient Jerusalem • The Fall of Jerusalem in Light of Archaeology • Afoot at Assos

*Winter 1975*
A Jewish Archaeologist’s Finest Hours • A Theater and a Church • Altar of Artemis Found at Ephesus • Evidence of Child Sacrifice Found at Zarapath

*Autumn 1974*
How Did Early Israel Differ From Her Neighbors? • Sarcophagi and the Early Church • Ararat ‘74 • Space Age Ark-aeology

*Summer 1974*
Have Sodom and Gomorrah Been Found? • The Search For Noah’s Ark

*Spring 1974*
The Place of Christ’s Crucifixion and Burial • The Pool of Gibeon • Samson and the House of Dagon • Was O’Callaghan’s Bombshell a Dud?

*Winter 1974*
The Doctor Who Wrote History • The Witness of Archaeology • Rendezvous With Jeroboam • Beer-Sheba, City of the Patriarchs

*Autumn 1973*
Pioneering With Paul, Part II • The Uniqueness of Chistianity • High State Officials Under David and Solomon • Yigael Yadin Completes Study of 2,000 Year-Old Scroll

*Summer 1973*
Pioneering With Paul, Part I • The Practice of Writing in Ancient Israel • “‘Ai’ Ain’t Ai!” • Jar Handles Tell a Story

*Spring 1973*
Abraham as Archaeology Knows Him, Part II • Caesarea - City of the Apostles • Those Dead Sea Scroll Fragments and Mark • Helps For Bible Students

*Winter 1973*
Abraham as Archaeology Knows Him, Part I • Excavations at Babylon • Debir - A Puzzle Solved • Arafat Unfriendly to Ark Searchers

*Autumn 1972*
New Light on David’s Capture of Jerusalem • Solomon and Israel’s Golden Age, Part III • Secrets From Gezer • Excavations at Nineveh

*Summer 1972*
Solomon and Israel’s Golden Age, Part II • The Bible Was Right After All, Part III • Site of Christ’s Miracle Identified • Ark-aeology ‘72

*Spring 1972*
O’Callaghan’s Bombshell • Solomon and Israel’s Golden Age, Part I • The Bible Was Right After All, Part II • The Moabite Stone

*Winter 1972*
Does Archaeology Prove the Bible? • The Bible Was Right After All, Part I • Whither Noah’s Ark • The Mystery of the Bat Creek Stone