Artistic and epigraphic evidence suggest that Elijah's Cave, on the western slope of Mt. Carmel, had been used as a pagan cultic place, possibly a shrine, devoted to Ba'al Carmel (identified with Zeus/Jupiter) as well as to Pan and Eros as secondary deities.
This collection covers 25 years of articles in four themes: architecture (pagan temples, early churches, synagogues), sculpture (iconography, style), mosaics (secular, religious, Classical influences), and symbolic art (Greek inscriptions).