Jan 30
By: BAS Staff
It has been called the “dirty secret” of Israel archaeology: Digs go on for season after season of excavation without publishing final reports of the results of their work. Fortunately, some archaeology digs are changing that trend by producing final reports in beautiful volumes, thereby sharing their discoveries with the public and other scholars interested in Israel archaeology.
Jan 25
In this exclusive video from the Biblical Archaeology Society, educational programs director Sarah Yeomans takes you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the excavations at Bethsaida, Israel. The excavation, directed for more than 20 years by University of Nebraska at Omaha professor Rami Arav, has revealed numerous insights into life at the time of Jesus and is also one of Israel’s top archaeology field schools.
Jan 1
Download handouts that accompany BAS Lecture DVDs. Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible & Covenant Download recommended reading by James H. Charlesworth and Henry W. Reitz The […]
Oct 10
Aaron Burke, codirector of the Jaffa excavations, discusses how to write an archaeological report about an old excavation in his column, “An Archaeological Cold Case Solved.”
Jul 29
A Dead Sea Scroll scholar at the University of Manchester in England has identified an early precursor to the traditional Jewish lunar calendar. In a […]
Jul 20
The Dead Sea Scrolls discovery is so widely celebrated by the scholarly community and the scrolls have played such an important part in Biblical scholarship as the oldest biblical manuscripts that it is sometimes easy to forget that most of them are in fact Bible artifacts found during archaeological looting by Bedouin.
Oct 18
By: John F. Kutsko
Professor Ron Hendel’s Biblical Views column from July/August 2010, “Farewell to SBL: Faith and Reason in Biblical Studies,” elicited a thunderous and widespread response, both in support and in opposition, and among both the academic community to which it was largely addressed and among BAR’s more scholarly readers.
May 1
By: Reviewed by Marjo C.A. Korpel
Back to Scholars Debate “Jezebel” Seal Thousands and thousands of seals and seal impressions (bullae) from the ancient Near East have been found, including Hebrew […]
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