Robert Bronder

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 […]

By: Zuzana Chovanec

Organic chemistry has opened a new range of research opportunities for archaeology. Among the latest approaches is Organic Residue Analysis (ORA), which examines organic remains. […]

By: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity By Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debié, trans. by Jeffrey Haines (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, […]

By: BAS Staff

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 […]

By: BAS Staff

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 […]

By: BAS Staff

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 […]

By: Aaron A. Burke

The Bible Among Ruins Time, Material Remains, and the World of the Biblical Writers By Daniel Pioske (Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023), 308 pp., 50 […]

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: Matthew J. Grey

Excavating the Land of Jesus How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels By James Riley Strange (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2023), 192 pp., 29 […]

By: Konstantinos Politis

Most travelers to Jordan have visited the famous Nabatean city of Petra or the dune-swept, otherworldly landscape of Wadi Rum, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. […]