Jerusalem Tracker 14.1: New Publications about the Holy City
Helpful lists of new material about Jerusalem
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I’m happy to present the first half of Jerusalem Tracker 14, a quarterly list of every new publication I can find about historical Jerusalem. To make these lists, I manually comb through hundreds of periodicals, publishing house websites, newsletters, popular outlets, blogs, social media feeds, and other online spaces. See the archive of previous lists here.
The following criteria apply to publications listed below:
They must deal with an aspect of historical Jerusalem: its direct study, appropriation, or something else.
Material about Jerusalem’s hinterland is included only when there is a direct connection to the historical basin.
This list only includes titles that have been released in finalized form. Forthcoming publications are not mentioned, even if available for preorder or published in advance digitally.
Open-access (*OA) works are noted.
Publications in languages other than English are noted or their titles are left untranslated.
The study of Jerusalem is inherently variegated. Material or publication outlets listed below does not imply an endorsement of their views unless stated otherwise.
Most publications in this list were issued after early December 2025, but some older ones may appear if I accidentally omitted them previously.
If you sense that a relevant resource is missing, please feel free to leave a comment or send an email to approachingjerusalem@gmail.com.
New Articles and Book Chapters about Jerusalem
Book Reviews
Review of Revelation’s New Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, edited by Nathan Betz, Anthony Dupont, and Johan Leemans in Review of Biblical Literature by Robin M. Jensen
Review of Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History by Ory Amitay in Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Jodi Magness *OA
Review of Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War by Kit Kowol in American Historical Review by Dean Blackburn
History of Jerusalem
“The Millo Built by Solomon in Jerusalem: An Egyptian Building” in Bibliotheca Orientalis by David Shapira
“Does Mishneh Matter? The Significance of Huldah’s Place” in Journal of Ancient Judaism by Paba Nidhani De Andrado
“‘Their Threshold by My Threshold’ (Ezekiel 43): Temple-Tombs and Royal Ancestor Cults in Egypt and Jerusalem” in Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Egypt by Christopher B. Hays
Selected chapters in The Untold Story of the Kingdom of Judah by
Oded Lipschits
“The Rural Hinterland of Jerusalem in the Hasmonean Period” in Journal of Ancient Judaism by Yosef Spiezer, Yehiel Zelinger, and Boaz Zissu
“Where was Golgotha? The Philological, Biblical, Patristic, and Archaeological Evidence” in Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus by David A. Fiensy
“What Did the Last Supper Really Look Like?” in Biblical Archaeology Review by Matthew J. Grey
“Under Siege: How Rome Conquered Jerusalem” in Biblical Archaeology Review by Győző Vörös
“L’histoire de la Terre sainte et le discours franciscain sur les croisades : les frères mineurs à Jérusalem (1373- 1524)” in Les discours sur la croisade by Michele Campopiano
“Urban Development of Jerusalem under Jordanian Rule: Narrating the Jerusalem International Airport, 1948-1967” (Arabic) in Ostour by Mansour Nasasra *OA
Jerusalem in Ancient and Medieval Literature
“Abraham in Ramat Raḥel: The Historical and Political Background of the Melchizedek Episode in Genesis 14:18-20” in The Ancestors of Genesis and the Exodus Traditions: A Festschrift for Thomas Römer by Oded Lipschits and Jakob Wöhrle *OA
“Weeping Over Jerusalem: Luke’s Response to the Destruction of the Temple” in Harvard Theological Review by Jason S. Wendel *OA
“Critical and Sub-Critical Days: The Siege of Jerusalem and the Parousia in Mark 13” in The Concept of Crisis in Antiquity: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Simon Gathercole
“Mapping Eschatology: Jerusalem in Time and Space in the Sibylline Oracles” in ‘Listen to the Sibyl’: The History, Poetics, and Reception of the Sibylline Oracles by Oliver Parkes
“The Descriptions in The Siege of Jerusalem: Source, Theme, and Relationship to The Destruction of Troy” in Modern Philology by Sarah Wood
“The Jerusalem Temple in Pesiqta Rabbati: From Creation to Apocalypse” (book chapter) in Sing and Rejoice, O daughter of Zion (Zechariah 2:14):
Studies in Pesiqta Rabbati by Rivka Ulmer
Inscriptions from Jerusalem
“The Ophel Pithos Inscription: A Fragmentary West Semitic Writing Exercise” in Eretz-Israel 36 by André Lemaire
“Le pithos inscrit de l’Ophel à Jérusalem” in Revue Biblique by Émile Puech
“Hezekiah’s Unpaid Tax Bill?” in Biblical Archaeology Review by Unknown
“On the Recently Published Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform Text from Jerusalem” in Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires by Christopher Jones *OA
“The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: For the Living or the Dead?” in Biblical Archaeology Review by Ariel Cohen
“On Jacob’s Path: Text, Layout, and Orality in a Late Antique Jewish Pilgrim’s Temple Mount Graffito” in Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography by Joanna Homrighausen *OA
Digital Humanities
“The track seen with Polycam”: a comparative study of SfM-based 3D documentation applied to architectural structures and decorative motifs at the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)” in Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage by Federica Vacatello and Alessandro Melega
Archaeology of Jerusalem: Bronze and Iron Ages
“A Stone Seal Bearing a Winged Figure and a Hebrew Inscription from an Excavation near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem” (Hebrew) in Qadmaniot by Ronny Reich, Filip Vukosavović, Navot Ram, and Yuval Baruch
“The Center of Jerusalem at the End of the First Temple Period between the Eastern Hill and Southwestern Hill—Archaeological Insight” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Hillel Geva
“Jerusalem’s Shifting Center: The Western Slope of the Southeastern Ridge between the Bronze Age and the Early Persian Period” in Israel Exploration Journal by Yuval Gadot and Yiftah Shalev
“The History of the Western Slope of the Southeastern Spur in the City of David” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Yuval Gadot and Yiftah Shalev
“The History of the Area between Ramat Rahel and Jerusalem during the Hundred Years Rule of Assyria in Judea” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Oded Lipschits
Archaeology of Jerusalem: Roman Period
“Producers and Consumers of Ceramic Building Materials in Roman Jerusalem and Its Environs” in Israel Exploration Journal by Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Shulamit V. Terem, Avner Ecker, Uzi ‘Ad, and Rachel Bar-Nathan
“A Roman Spatha Sword and Scabbard From Excavations on Mount Zion in Jerusalem” in Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology by Shimon Gibson, Rafael Y. Lewis, Yarden Pagelson, Dudi Mevorah, and Hadas Seri *OA
“The Date and Function of the Horizontal Gutter-Like Water Channels along the Walls of the Herodian Temple Mount” in ‘Atiqot by Nahshon Szanton and Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah *OA
“Purity on Mount Zion—Ritual Stepped Pools on the Southwestern Hill of Jerusalem” in Eretz-Israel 36 by Dieter Vieweger, Katja Soennecken, Jennifer Zimni-Gitler, Friederike Schöpf, and Michael Chernin
“The Reflection of the Sanctuary City, Jerusalem of the End of the Second Temple Period through the Trash Heap in the Kidron Valley” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Ram Bouchnick
“Settlement on the Southwestern Hill of Jerusalem in the Early Roman Period: A Reconstruction Following the Discovery of Mikve’ot in the Givati Parking Lot” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Efrat Bocher
“‘And the Cistern Was Empty, There Was No Water in It’—the Story of a Hewn Cistern in Jerusalem from the Days of the Great Revolt” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets
“Language and Gender in Ossuaries of Men and Women in Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Tehilla Lieberman and Avner Ecker
“‘Bathing Like a Roman’: The Adoption of Roman Bathing Culture in Hot Rooms (Caldaria) by the Jewish Elite in Jerusalem in the Late Second Temple Period” in Eretz-Israel 36 (Hebrew) by David Gurevich
“Cooking Pots that were Punctured, Abandoned, or Broken in Jerusalem during the Late Second Temple Period” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Asher Grossberg
“A Pool of Arches and Canals from the Second Temple Period North of the Western Wall Tunnel in Jerusalem” (Hebrew) in Eretz-Israel 36 by Nahshon Szanton and Dan Bahat
Archaeology of Jerusalem: Excavation Reports
“Jerusalem, City of David, Areas U and C” in Hadashot Arkheologiyot by Filip Vukosavović and Yiftah Shalev *OA
“Monumental Construction and Water Management at the Foot of the Temple Mount, Western Wall Tunnels Excavations, Jerusalem” in ‘Atiqot by Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah *OA
“The Pottery from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem” in ‘Atiqot by Peretz Reuven *OA
“The Glass from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem” in ‘Atiqot by Tamar Winter *OA
“Architectural Elements and a Statue Fragment from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem” in ‘Atiqot by Orit Peleg-Barkat *OA
“Coins from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem” in ‘Atiqot by Yanniv David Levy *OA
“Roman-Period Radiocarbon Chronology of the Great Causeway, Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem” in ‘Atiqot by Johanna Regev, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, Eugenia Mintz, Lior Regev, and Elisabetta Boaretto *OA
Archaeology of Jerusalem: Varia
“The Date of Macalister and Duncan’s “Jebusite Wall” and Towers in Eretz-Israel 36 by Jodi Magness
“The Date of Heraclius’ Jerusalem Folles” in Israel Numismatic Research by Nikolaus Schindel
“The Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem and the ‘Monkey War’” (Hebrew) in Qadmaniot by Ronny Reich
Several volumes of the New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region conference are available open access:
New Books about Jerusalem
A Historical Archaeology of Jerusalem: Bronze and Iron Ages by Yuval Gadot
Where Was Jesus Crucified? Texts, Archaeology, and a New Case for Golgotha on Jerusalem’s West Side by Todd M. West
Ottoman Provincial Society and the Waqf of Jerusalem, 1703-1831 by Şerife Eroğlu Memiş
Ronald Storrs: Governing British Jerusalem by C. Brad Faught
The Destruction of Jerusalem in German-Language Narrative Literature about the Jewish-Roman War: Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism, and Nationalism (German) by Fabian Wilhelmi
From the Temple Mount to the New Jerusalem: A Biblical Theology of Zion Symbolism by Jaren M. Blair
Representing Jerusalem in World Literature and Art: Sacred Space and Sacred History edited by Elena V. Shabliy
O Jerusalem! The Story of St. George’s College by Stephen W. Need
Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements by Johannes Becker
Coming soon: Jerusalem Tracker 14.2 will include new media, developments, and events relevant to historical Jerusalem.
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