Abstract
Like the other archaeologists and biblical scholars, I had to seethe greatest archaeological discovery everon display in the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). We were in Toronto for the 2002 annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research and Society of Biblical Literature, and we all made the pilgrimage. Coming up the stairs from the Toronto Transit Commission’s metro station, I saw a throng of people and darted to queue at the end of a line snaking around the corner from the museum’s entrance. Hoping that tickets were still available, I began to notice a surprising number of