Mar 13
By: BAS Staff
Nestled in the heart of the Shephelah with a commanding view over the Elah Valley, the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1200 BCE) Canaanite city of […]
Feb 20
By: Jonathan Laden
The name of Priscilla in the New Testament does not come up often in Bible study. Yet, as Ben Witherington III explains in “Priscilla—An Extraordinary […]
Feb 11
By: James Tabor
Clearly in Mark the 12 male disciples are complete failures and are never presented as heroes, even at the end. However, what we do find in Mark, in stark contrast to this chosen group, are three unnamed women who become Mark’s heroines and carry the core message of the entire book for those readers with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Feb 2
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Workers at the Temple Mount Sifting Project (TMSP) have uncovered two unique weights that hint at the existence of a Byzantine church on the Temple […]
Jan 24
By: BAS Staff
The fifth-century CE Huqoq synagogue, excavated in the village of Huqoq in the Lower Galilee, is renowned for its impressive mosaics of various biblical scenes. […]
Jan 3
By: Jonathan Robie
Today the Bible is being translated into thousands of different languages. Some of these, like Chinese or Arabic, are spoken by billions or hundreds of […]
Dec 20
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
For the past 2,000 years, people have wondered about the identity and nature of the Star of Bethlehem. And for hundreds of years, some of […]
Dec 13
By: Marek Dospěl
The so-called Midianite Hypothesis, first popularized in the 19th century, holds that Moses was introduced to the god Yahweh in the land of Midian and […]
Nov 17
By: BAS Staff
And the Winner Is … “This little piggy should have stayed home.” —Julia Stramer, Hazelton, MD Thank you to all those who submitted caption entries […]
Nov 6
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Utilizing declassified images from the CORONA and HEXAGON spy satellite programs, a team of archaeologists identified nearly 400 Roman fortresses throughout the northern Fertile Crescent. […]