BAS Staff

By: BAS Staff

For millennia, humans have attempted to depict the divine. The Fall 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review offers some intriguing examples of this phenomenon. Early Christian depictions of Jesus in which he holds a "magic wand". What John 1 means when it says “God is love.” And a new archaeological discovery.

By: Robert R. Cargill

On a dark day in April 2020, he received the news. Sheltering in place due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) precautions, archaeologist Steve Ortiz, […]

By: UNC-Chapel Hill, Office of University Communications

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, together with a team of researchers and students, found at Huqoq the first ancient Jewish depiction of the Elim episode from the Book of Exodus

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Can personal names on archaeological materials from ancient Israel and Judah shed light on when the Bible was written? In the Summer 2020 issue of […]

By: BAS Staff

Who lived at Tel Hadid? Tel Hadid, which is believed to be the remains of  Hadid from the Bible (first mentioned in Ezra 2:32 and […]

By: BAS Staff

Through January 1, 2021 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Millennia later, and still thinking … Sitting atop a ceramic jug in silent reflection, this figurine […]

By: Dr. Mark Wilson

Each spring I am somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean, leading a BAS group that’s visiting archaeological and biblical sites. But with the outbreak of the […]

By: David Vanderhooft

A funeral Mass was celebrated Saturday, December 14, 2019, at St. Joseph’s Church in Boston for Fr. Philip J. King, retired professor in theology at […]

By: Gerbern S. Oegema

Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity By Jill Hicks-Keeton (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018), 232 pp., $99.00 (hardcover) […]

By: Robert Cargill

I recently lectured on ancient treaties. These fall into two main categories: parity treaties between two relatively equal parties and suzerain-vassal treaties between a dominant, […]