BAS Staff

By: BAS Staff

The story of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) begins in the early 1970s. Hershel Shanks, a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm, decided to take […]

By: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

A team from the Tell Halif archaeological excavation made their own tannur, a traditional oven referenced in the Hebrew Bible, and baked bread in it.

By: BAS Staff

Read what Bible Secrets Revealed consulting producer Dr. Robert Cargill reveals about the third installment of the History Channel series.

By: Sabine Kleiman, Manfred Oeming, Oded Lipschits

Clay nude female figurines are a common find at Late Bronze Age sites in the southern Levant. Typically hand-sized and made from a mold, these […]

By: BAS Staff

Bearing gifts for the infant Jesus, the three wise men from the east traversed afar to reach Bethlehem. What do we really know about the magi, who are so central to the traditional telling of the Christmas story?

By: BAS Staff

First offered in 1993, the Biblical Archae­ology Society’s Dig Scholarships have gone hand in hand with BAR’s annual list of dig opportunities, which has been […]

By: Ben Witherington III

Who was the first person to truly recognize Jesus as the messiah and understand the implications? Biblical scholar Ben Witherington III takes a close look at the account given in Luke, and sheds some light on what the Biblical narrative has to say about who was the first to recognize Jesus as the messiah.

By: BAS Staff

Mary Magdalene, Jezebel, Rahab, Lilith. Today, each are popularly considered scandalous women in the Bible. Are these so-condemned salacious women misrepresented?

By: Megan Sauter

The Philistines are best known from the Bible as the Israelites’ enemies, but they were much more than that. Recent archaeological discoveries help inform our […]

By: BAS Staff

What is biblical archaeology? The answer to this question has changed considerably over the 100-plus years since the discipline first emerged in the early 20th […]