Jun 5
By: BAS Staff
The black basalt ruins of the Iron Age temple discovered at ’Ain Dara in northern Syria offer the closest known parallel to the Temple of King Solomon in the Bible.
Jun 3
What did Jesus look like? In “Painting a Portrait of Jesus,” D. Moody Smith examined the difficulties in answering this question.
Amid the remains of a fourth- or fifth-century church at Hierapolis, one of the most significant Christian sites in Turkey, archaeologist Francesco D’Andria found a first-century Roman tomb that he believes once held the remains of the apostle Philip.
Jun 2
Through January 25, 2027 The Getty Villa Los Angeles, California www.getty.edu A collection of exceptional sculptures from Egypt’s 26th Dynasty (664–526 BCE) is currently on […]
May 27
Slumbering Dreams THANK YOU for the illuminating Winter issue. On this occasion, however, you appear to have chosen the cover with greater care than the […]
Josephus’s commentaries on the laws and characteristics of the Essene community have been invaluable to scholars studying ancient Jewish laws and customs.
And the Winner Is … “Hey Jesus, remember that ‘walking on water’ thing that Peter did?” Dennis Hefty, Salem, Oregon Thank you to all those […]
May 22
The stories of Sodom and its destruction, whether historical or not, were clearly understood to have occurred near the Dead Sea, among the so-called “cities of the plain” mentioned in Genesis 13, verse 12. But where exactly was this plain, and was a particular site associated with Sodom?
May 20
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.
May 18
The city of Sidon on the coast of modern Lebanon is mentioned 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Recent excavations have exposed part of the ancient Canaanite—and later Phoenician—city, including a massive temple and depictions of deities worshiped at Sidon.
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