04/19 | Anna is one of the Bible’s most unusual women. Introduced at the end of the Birth Narrative (Luke 1:1-2:40), Anna concludes the sextet of named, pious Israelites surrounding the miraculous Read more…
Posted in People in the Bible.
02/01 | Few symbols have a tradition as long and as rich as the dove. Read about what it represents, how its use has been shared, adapted and reinterpreted across cultures and Read more…
Posted in Daily Life and Practice.
12/23 | The legend of the magi has fired the imagination of Christians since the earliest times. In art, the adoration of the magi appeared earlier and far more frequently than any Read more…
Posted in New Testament.
Gabriel Barkay
Listen to Gabriel Barkay outline ten key points all scholars should agree on in judging issues of authenticity of artifacts.
Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
The Biblical writers had a clear sense that human civilization as they knew it had first flourished in the east, in the lands of Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. The stories of Creation, the Garden of Eden and the Flood were all born of well-known Mesopotamian traditions that had been around thousands of years before the authors of Genesis weaved them together into a timeless tale of Israel’s origins.
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Reviewed by Charlotte Hempel
Charlotte Hempel reviews "The Dead Sea Scrolls—A Biography" by John J. Collins.
