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By: Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

How Rabbis Became Experts Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity By Krista N. Dalton (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2025), 264 pp.; $39.95 […]

By: James Riley Strange

In the first century C.E., Jesus’s hometown of Nazareth was a Galilean village like most others

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Through April 19, 2026 Getty Center Los Angeles, California getty.edu An exhibition currently on view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles explores humanity’s enduring […]

By: Vanessa Linares

For centuries, the earliest documented exploitation of domesticated vanilla was known from the Aztecs, who cultivated the flat-leafed species (Vanilla planifolia) in central Mexico around […]

By: Robert Edwards

When a massive earthquake struck Antakya, Turkey, in 2023 (see Going, Going, Gone: Devastation in Antakya), this was, sadly, far from the first time. A […]

By: BAS Staff

For more than a century, the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research has been the leading American research center in Jerusalem. Some of biblical archaeology’s […]

By: Lauren Monroe

The Ten Commandments: Monuments of Memory, Belief, and Interpretation By Timothy S. Hogue (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023), 340 pp., 15 figs.; $130 (hardcover and […]

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Through July 6, 2025 Museum of the Bible Washington, D.C. museumofthebible.org An extraordinary mosaic from the area of ancient Megiddo in northern Israel is now […]

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And the Winner Is … “I don’t mind the anointing, but whatever happened to ‘a little dab will do ya’?” —Kevin Whitehead, Columbia, Tennessee Thank […]

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Take part in our ever-popular Caption Contest. Write a caption for this cartoon based on Matthew 8:24–26: “Suddenly a furious storm came up on the […]