Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
Archaeological Evidence
Excavation Websites
Harvard Expedition to Samaria - hosted as part of the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program, this website describes the 1908-1910 exploration and allows you to browse the artifacts and manuscripts they found in the ancient capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, a city later rebuilt by Herod the Great to honor Emperor Augustus ("Sebaste," his new name for the city, translates the Latin "Augustus" in Greek).
Excavation Reports
Crowfoot, J. W., G. M. Crowfoot, and Kathleen Mary Kenyon. Samaria-Sebaste. Reports of the Work of the Joint Expedition in 1931-1933 and of the British Expedition in 1935,3 vols. London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1942-1957.
Hennessy, J. B. "Excavations at Samaria-Sebaste, 1968." Levant 2 (1970) 1-21.
Reisner, George Andrew, Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon. Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1908–1910, vol. 1, Text. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1924.
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
Barag, Dan. "King Herod's Royal Castle at Samaria-Sebaste." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 125:1 (1993) 3-18.
Magness, Jodi. "The Cults of Isis and Kore at Samaria-Sebaste in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods." Harvard Theological Review 94:2 (2001) 159-79.
Marshak, Adam Kolman. "The Dated Coins of Herod the Great: Towards a New Chronology." Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 37:2 (2006) 212-40.
Roll, Israel and Etan Ayalon. "Roman Roads in Western Samaria." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 118 (1986) 113-34.
Weiss, Ze’ev. "Adopting a Novelty: The Jews and the Roman Games in Palestine." In The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Some Recent Archaeological Research (ed. John H. Humphrey; JRASup 31; Portsmouth, Rhode Island: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1999) 2.23-49.
Zangenberg, Jürgen. "Between Jerusalem and the Galilee: Samaria in the Time of Jesus." In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 393-432.
