All below was extracted from the BAR Library here.
Sidebar to: Why Lachish Matters
We [BAR] have written extensively on Lachish over the past decades, as indicated by the following bibliography.
“Mystery Find at Lachish,” BAR, September/October 1979.
David Ussishkin, “Answers at Lachish,” BAR, November/December, 1979.
R. Wright, “Lachish and Azekah Were the Only Fortified Cities of Judah that Remained,” (Jeremiah 34:7) BAR, November/December 1982.
Hershel Shanks, “Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures,” BAR, March/April 1984.
David Ussishkin, “Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season,” BAR, March/April 1984.
David Ussishkin, The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib, review by H. Shanks, BAR, March/April 1984.
Oded Borowski, “Yadin Presents New Interpretation of the Famous Lachish Letters,” BAR, March/April 1984.
Yigael Yadin, “The Mystery of the Unexplained Chain,” BAR, July/August 1984.
David. Usssishkin, “Lachish—Key to the Israelite Conquest of Canaan?” BAR, January/February 1987.
David Ussishkin, “Restoring the Great Gate at Lachish,” BAR, March/April 1988.
William H. Shea, “Jerusalem Under Siege: Did Sennacherib Attack Twice?” BAR, November/December 1999.
Sennacherib’s Siege of Lachish, Study reveals how Assyria conquered the Judahite city by Nathan Steinmeyer, January 28, 2022. Great details about the construction of the siege ramp.
Steven Feldman, “Return to Lachish,” BAR, May/June 2002.
Recent Articles
Going to the Bathroom at Lachish – The BAS Library – Going to the Bathroom at Lachish … An ancient stone toilet recently unearthed at Lachish may provide archaeological evidence of King Hezekiah’s religious … 2017
Canaanite Worship at Lachish—New Details Emerge.
News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at … Our expedition to Lachish is described in detail in the review/article “Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures.
BAR Jr.: “Lachish and Azekah Were the Only Fortified Cities of Judah That Remained” (Jeremiah 34:7)… *** Imagine you’re digging at a Judean outpost southeast of Jerusalem, and you unearth correspondence written shortly before the Babylonians destroyed the city
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedeki’ah king of Judah, in Jerusalem, 7 when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Aze’kah; for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.
An Ending and a Beginning – Why we’re leaving Qeiyafa and going to Lachish
By Yosef Garfinkel, Michael G. Hasel, Martin G. Klingbeil, BAR > November/December 2013
Extract relating to their work and what is planned. The article includes many interesting photos.
The fourth expedition to Lachish is a joint project of the Institutes of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Southern Adventist University in Tennessee, together with other consortium institutions. We are privileged to have David Ussishkin as a scientific advisor to the project. The main targets of our new expedition to Lachish are Level IV and Level V. These two layers can tell us how Judah developed from its beginnings into the full-fledged state destroyed by Sennacherib in 701 B.C.E.
Extract from The Lachish Letters, A Judahite archive from the First Temple period by Nathan Steinmeyer May 05, 2023.
The second letter [ostraca] to discuss is Lachish #4. While this letter, unfortunately, does not include the names of either the sender or its recipient, it does contain several important reports. Most intriguing is the mention that the sender is watching the signal fires of Lachish, for they cannot see Azekah. The exact meaning and implication of this statement are debated, but it does resemble Jeremiah 6:1, which mentions the use of signal fires to warn of the invading Babylonian army, providing a plausible date for this text.
