Sep 22
By: Barbara A. Porter
On March 28, Bert de Vries, long time director of the Umm al Jimal excavations in Jordan and former director of the American Center of […]
Sep 21
By: Jennifer Drummond
The Kingdom of Cush, Egypt’s neighbor to the south, played an important role in biblical history despite being one of the lesser known kingdoms. According to 2 Kings 19:9, “Tirhakah, King of Cush” came to the aid of Hezekiah against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, when his forces laid siege to Jerusalem in 701 B.C.E. Without such aid, Judah would have likely gone the way of the Kingdom of Israel—spread to the four winds, never to return.
Sep 21
By: Jonathan Klawans
Many assume that Jesus' Last Supper was a Seder, the ritual Passover meal. Examine evidence from the synoptic Gospels with scholar Jonathan Klawans.
Sep 20
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Archaeologists have long puzzled over the exact function of Khirbet Qumran—the famous site located next to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found—since […]
Sep 19
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
Read the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson.
Sep 18
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
Does archaeological evidence connect with Israel’s Exodus from Egypt—a central event in the Bible? Egyptian artifacts and sites show that the Biblical text does indeed recount accurate memories from the period to which the Exodus is generally assigned.
Sep 17
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
As first reported in the Jerusalem Post, archaeologists recently discovered a fraudulent stone weight dating to the First Temple period in Jerusalem’s City of David […]
Sep 17
By: Devorah Emmet Wigoder
The brevity of life is compared to the delicate bloom of the caper in one of the Bible’s many references to fragrant and edible plants. Enjoy a glimpse of some of these plants.
Sep 16
By: Megan Sauter
Ancient interpreters frequently painted Lot as greedy and unscrupulous—a foil to Abraham’s righteousness.
Sep 15
By: Marek Dospěl
The biblical figure of Joseph offers one of the most fascinating narratives of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis 37–50 tells the intricate and adventurous story that […]
