Feb 27
By: Robert Cargill
At the November 2019 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting in San Diego, Pnina Shor of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced her retirement. […]
By: Megan Sauter
The town of Bethsaida appears in the New Testament as a fishing village on the Sea of Galilee and the hometown of the apostles Peter, […]
By: BAS Staff
Jacob “Safely” in Shechem Editors, Seriously? Shalem is a city near Shechem and Malchizedek was the king of Sodom? (First Person: “From Shalem to Jerusalem,” […]
Biblical Archaeology Review November/December 2019: Winners “I’m telling you, nothing rhymes with Sisera.” —Richard James Wolf, Westminster, Maryland Thank you to all those who submitted caption […]
Feb 21
By: Michele Barasso
Sunday, February 23, 2020 From Sectarianism to Consensus: The Rise of Rabbinic Judaism presented by Lawrence Schiffman The late Second Temple period (second century BCE […]
Feb 20
By: Andrew Perrin
The Qumran group is famously described as “an apocalyptic community that didn’t write apocalypses.” Yet, as we now know, their library not only included their […]
Feb 12
Any time that a character in the Bible discovers, accesses, or writes a book, it’s significant. Yet are these mentions of media about an actual […]
Jan 8
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, 2020 Dig Scholarships have been suspended. Check back for updates as we assess the situation for the possibilities of a […]
Dec 30
Tel Shimron is the largest archaeological site in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. This valley for millennia served as an important thoroughfare—and it still […]
Dec 11
By now you may have noticed we’ve made some changes to this first issue of 2020. In addition to some of the policy changes we’ve […]
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