May 12
By: Marek Dospěl
Where can we situate the origins of Judaism? If we were able to travel back in time, would we find ancient Israelites and Judeans following […]
May 5
Where was Mary Magdalene from? According to early Christian tradition, the famous disciple of Jesus was from a town called Magdala, hence her name, Mary […]
Apr 30
Ever since the 19th century, when Western explorers and archaeologists first began to take a serious, professional interest in the history and cultures of the […]
Apr 29
Only two generations after the traumatizing Roman destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70), Cypriot Jews clashed with their Roman overlords in a bloody uprising. Their fight […]
Apr 16
How was Jesus crucified? This question sounds so trivial it is almost confusing. Christian tradition has always portrayed Jesus hanging from the cross with his […]
Mar 23
Jerusalem is one of the most excavated places in the world. Since Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) first appeared in 1975, its readers have had a […]
Mar 21
After seven seasons of excavation at El-Araj on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists have found the remains of a house that […]
Mar 4
What were early synagogues like? Traditional scholarship has answered this simple question with studies of the built structures, analyzing their architecture and examining evidence of […]
Feb 5
Just like their pagan neighbors, Jesus’s followers of the first Christian centuries would commonly resort to protection amulets to guard themselves from illness and any kind of harm.
Jan 27
Where was Moses buried? We don’t know exactly. Nor did the biblical writers: “Then Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of […]
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