Lachish

Main gate, Lachish archaeological site, Israel. PD.

Lachish (Tel Lachish)

Excavation and Research

INDEX of Sites

The official website for Lachish is at this LINK. There are several free articles attached to their website LINK. The dig reports may be found here LINK. Discoveries of note are the Lachish Reliefs in the British Museum and the "Lachish letters." For a fascinating history of John L. Starkey who first excavated the site see the website and articles by Wendy Slaninka (Granddaughter of James Leslie Starkey & Marjorie Starkey by their daughter Mary).

Some of the Published material on the Lachish excavations include:

• Dagan, Y. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Lakhish (98), Jerusalem, 1992.
• Feldman, Steven. “Return to Lachish,” Biblical Archaeology Review 28 no. 3 (May/June 2002):18–27. LOOKUP or LINK
• Finkelstein, Israel and Silberman, Neil Asher. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Touchstone, 2001.
• Graves, David E. “Lachish Reliefs,” Biblical Archaeology online Companion, LINK
• King, Philip J. “Why Lachish Matters: A Major Site Gets the Publication It Deserves,” Biblical Archaeology Review 31 no. 4 (Jul/Aug 2005): 36–47. LINK
• Paine, J. A. and D. Tarrytown, “Critical Note: Not Lachish, but Gath,” Bibliotheca Sacra. Vol. 47 no. 185 (1890): 682-691. LINK
• Ussishkin, David. “Royal Judean Storage Jars and Private Seal Impressions,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 223, 1976, pp. 1–13.
• Ussishkin, David. “The Destruction of Lachish by Sennacherib and the Dating of the Royal Judean Storage Jars,” Tel Aviv 4, 1977, pp. 28–60.
• Ussishkin, David. “Excavations at Tel Lachish – 1973–1977, Preliminary Report,” Tel Aviv 5, 1978, pp. 1–97.
• Ussishkin, David. “The 'Lachish Reliefs’ and the City of Lachish,”  Israel Exploration Journal 30 no. 3/4, 1980, pp. 174–195. JSTOR
• Ussishkin, David. The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib, (Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, No. 6), Tel Aviv, 1983.
• Ussishkin, David. “Excavations at Tel Lachish 1978–1983: Second Preliminary Report,” Tel Aviv 10, 1983, pp. 97–175.
• Ussishkin, David. “Levels VII and VI at Tel Lachish and the End of the Late Bronze Age in Canaan,"  in: J.N. Tubb (ed.), Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages, Papers in Honour of Olga Tufnell, London, 1985, pp. 213–230.
• Ussishkin, David. “The Assyrian Attack on Lachish: The Evidence from the Southwest Corner of the Site,”  Tel Aviv 17, 1990, pp. 53–86.
• Ussishkin, David. “Excavations and Restoration Work at Tel Lachish: 1985–1994, Third Preliminary Report,” Tel Aviv 23, 1996, pp. 3–60.
• Ussishkin, David. The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish (1973–1994), Volumes I–V, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, No. 22, Tel Aviv, 2004.
• Ussishkin, David. “Symbols of Conquest in Sennacherib’s Reliefs of Lachish – Impaled Prisoners and Booty,” in: T.F. Potts et al. (eds.), Culture Through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P.R.S. Moorey, Oxford, 2003, pp. 207–217.
• Ussishkin, David. “Answers at Lachish,” Biblical Archaeology Review 5 no. 6 (Nov/Dec 1979):16–39. (contains the The Stratigraphy of Tel Lachish). 
• Ussishkin, David. “News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter–Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season,” Biblical Archaeology Review 10 no. 2 (Mar/Apr 1984): 66–73. LOOKUP
• Ussishkin, David. “Lachish: Key to the Israelite Conquest of Canaan?,” Biblical Archaeology Review 13 no. 1 (January/February 1987): 18–29. LOOKUP
• Ussishkin, David. “Restoring the Great Gate at Lachish,” Biblical Archaeology Review 14 no. 2 (March/April1988) 42–47. LOOKUP
• Ussishkin, David. “Excavations and Restorations at Tel Lachish,” The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology n.d. WEBSITE 
• Yadin, Yigael. “The Mystery of the Unexplained Chain,” Biblical Archaeology Review 10 no. 4 (July/August 1984): 65–67. LOOKUP

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

The list of abbreviations can be found here. LINK

• “Lachish,” Freedman, David Noel, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck, eds. Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. 
• Aharoni, Y., and D. Ussishkin, 1975. “Lachish,” Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. 4 vols. Edited by Avi–Yonah, Michael, and Ephraim Stern. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 3:735–53.
• Boyd, B., 1976. “Lachish,” IDBSup, 526.
• Cresson, B. C., 2003. “Lachish,” HolBD, 856.
• Dahlberg, B. T., 1984. “Lachish,” IDB, 3:53–57.
• Davey, C. J., 1982. “Lachish,” NBD², 669–70.
• DeVries, L. F., 2006. “Lachish,” in CBW, 208–14.
• Divito, R. A., “Lachish Letters,” The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Freedman, David Noel, Gary A. Herion, David F. Graf, and John David Pleins, eds. New York: Doubleday, 1992, 4:126-28.
• Elwell, W. A., 1988. “Lachish Letters,” BEB, 2:1297–98.
• Gold, V. R., and K. N. Schoville., 1995 “Lachish,”  ISBE², 3:55–58.
• Guinan, M. D., 1995 “Lachish Letters,” ISBE², 3:58–60.
• King, P. J., 1996. “Lachish,” HBD, 537–42.
• Longman, Tremper III, eds. "Lachish (Place)" The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013.
• Negev, Avraham, and Shimon Gibson, eds. "Lachish" page 288–292 in Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. New rev., and updated. 1 vols. New York: Continuum International, 2001.
• Laughlin, J. C. H., 1984. “Lachish,” MDB, 495–96.
• Pardee, D., 1997. “Lachish Inscriptions,” OEANE, 3:323–24.
• Payne, J. B., 1987. “Lachish,” NIDB, 576–78.
• Pearson, A. T., 1966. “Lachish,” BW, 343–49.
• Pfeiffer, Charles F., ed. "Lachish. "pages 343–49 in Wycliffe Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2000.
• Schoville, K. N., 1978. “Lachish,” BAF, 419–28.
• Thompson, J. A., 1975. “Lachish,”  Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Vols. 1–5. Revised, Full–Color ed. Tenney, Merrill C., and Moisés Silva, eds. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 3:850–58.
• Thompson, J. A., 1983. “Lachish Letters,” NIDBA, 284.
• Thompson, J. A., 1983. “Lachish,” NIDBA, 283–84.
• Ussishkin, D., 1993. “Lachish,” NEAEHL, 3:897–911.
• Ussishkin, D., 1997. “Lachish,” OEANE, 3:317–23.
• Ussishkin, David, “Lachish (Place),” The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Freedman, David Noel, Gary A. Herion, David F. Graf, and John David Pleins, eds. New York: Doubleday, 1992, 4:114-26. 
• Vos, H. F., 1988. “Lachish,” BEB, 2:1296–97.

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