Oct 11
By: Henri Gourinard
In this post, Henri Gourinard, master tour guide and lecturer at the Polis Institute in Jerusalem, describes the competing views on the location of Emmaus, […]
Oct 9
By: Thomas E. Levy, Gilad Shtienberg, Assaf Yasur-Landau
The oceans and seas are the last great frontier for Near Eastern archaeology. Year after year, the Mediterranean Sea yields rich new data from prehistory […]
Oct 7
By: Jonathan Redding
The Book of Esther Word for Word Bible Comic series (Bristol, United Kingdom: Word for Word Bible Comics, 2024), i–ix + 84 pp. Acts of […]
Oct 1
By: BAS Staff
What do we know about the history of crucifixion? Hershel Shanks looks at evidence of Roman crucifixion methods as analyzed from the remains found in Jerusalem of a young man crucified in the first century A.D.
Who were the Samaritans? Dr. Amy-Jill Levine of Vanderbilt University explains how getting an accurate answer to this question can shed light on how shocking the Good Samaritan parable would have been for Jesus’ audience.
Sep 30
By: Christopher A. Rollston
Yuval Goren, a professor of archaeology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, was a pioneer in the fields of archaeometry and microarchaeological research. Born in […]
Sep 29
By: Barbara A. Porter
Konstantinos Politis (better known as Dino to colleagues and friends) was a leading figure in Jordan’s archaeology and cultural heritage for more than four decades. […]
Josephus’s commentaries on the laws and characteristics of the Essene community have been invaluable to scholars studying ancient Jewish laws and customs.
Sep 25
By: Shimon Gibson
Jerusalem Through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades By Jodi Magness (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2024), x + 614 pp., 157 b/w […]
Sep 22
Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus.
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