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Jezreel Valley

Jul 11

What Is the Jezreel Valley?

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

A natural route connecting the Coastal Plain to the Jordan Valley and beyond, the Jezreel Valley is the site of numerous biblical events, including the […]

shipwreck

Jul 11

Two Shipwrecks for the Price of One

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

While exploring the famous first-century BCE Antikythera shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece, divers made some remarkable new discoveries. Among them was a previously […]

Menorah Stone

Jul 10

Understanding the Jewish Menorah

By: BAS Staff

The Jewish menorah—especially the Temple menorah, a seven-branched candelabra that stood in the Temple—is the most enduring and iconic Jewish symbol. But what did the Temple menorah actually look like? Learn more in this post and view a number of important menorah depictions from antiquity.

Pieter Bruegel Bethlehem Painting

Jul 10

How December 25 Became Christmas

By: Andrew McGowan

Theological scholar Andrew McGowan examines how December 25 came to be associated with the birthday of Jesus and became Christmas, a holiday celebrated by Christians around the world.

Jul 9

Exploring Jesus’s Hometown

By: James Riley Strange

In the early first century CE, Jesus’s hometown of Nazareth was a Galilean village like most others. With a population probably numbering only in the […]

Painting of the Battle of Nineveh (c. 627 CE) between the Sassanid and Byzantine Armies, by Fresco by Piero della Francesca c. 1452. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jul 9

Anglo-Saxons in the Byzantine Army

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

While elite sixth-century CE graves in England may be famous for what they tell us about Anglo-Saxon culture, they might also bear evidence that the […]

William Blake, Behemoth and Leviathan, 1825, National Gallery of Art

Jul 8

Biblical Monsters

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Monsters are an ever-present feature of modern cinema, from Dracula to the Kraken. However, monsters are by no means a modern invention, and many of the same creatures that inhabit our modern horror movies have roots that stretch back thousands of years. So, with Halloween just around the corner, let us take a moment to appreciate some old-school ghosts and ghouls from the biblical world paired with stories from Bible History Daily and the BAS Library.

Jul 8

The Split of Early Christianity and Judaism

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Northern Renaissance painter Robert Campin’s Marriage of the Virgin dramatically captures the split of early Christianity and Judaism.

Jul 7

Ancient Egyptian City Unearthed

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

A joint British-Egyptian excavation at the site of Tell Nebesha in northern Egypt has uncovered the ancient city of Imet. Although excavations had previously been […]

The North Church (left) and its baptistery (right) at Shivta in Israel’s Negev Desert. Photo by Dror Maayan, courtesy of Emma Maayan-Fanar

Jul 7

Jesus in the Negev

By: BAS Staff

At Shivta, a large early Christian site in southern Israel, scenes painted on the ruined walls of two monumental church buildings have been recently identified […]

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