Archaeologists, Biblical Scholars & Works

By: BAS Staff

New books appear every year on myriad topics within archaeology and biblical studies. Most are detailed, in-depth studies that make significant and novel contributions to […]

By: Jennifer Drummond

2025 WINNERS BAS Publication Awards These prestigious awards have been made possible by a grant from the Rohr Family in memory of Sami Rohr. BEST […]

By: BAS Staff

Who were the Samaritans? Dr. Amy-Jill Levine of Vanderbilt University explains how getting an accurate answer to this question can shed light on how shocking the Good Samaritan parable would have been for Jesus’ audience.

By: BAS Staff

Archaeological remains, brought back to the light of day, serve as tangible evidence of the past. As such, they are capable of connecting people to […]

By: Clinton J. Moyer

Since the first issue of Biblical Archaeology Review was published 50 years ago, the landscape of biblical archaeology—both literal and figurative—has expanded in remarkable ways. […]

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: Clinton J. Moyer

Since the inception of modern biblical archaeology in the early 20th century, it has been understood almost universally as the archaeology of the world of […]

By: BAS Staff

The story of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) begins in the early 1970s. Hershel Shanks, a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm, decided to take […]

By: Jeffrey R. Zorn

  When one thinks of the seminal figures in the archaeology of Mandate-era Palestine (c. 1918–1948), William F. Albright, Clarence S. Fisher, P.L.O. Guy, and […]

By: Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine

The title of this blogpost is also the title of the book we  coauthored. The Bible With and Without Jesus (HarperOne 2020) asks how the […]