From the moment they were discovered, the Samaria ivories created fanfare. Recently some scholars have challenged the long-accepted assumption about the ivories’ origins. Read more…
Biblical Archaeology Topics
Biblical archaeology topics include the many issues and controversies in the field of Biblical archaeology such as forgeries, unprovenanced artifacts, the chronology of ancient Israelite and Egyptian rulers, the accuracy of radiocarbon dating and many others.
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The Samaria Ivories—Phoenician or Israelite?
• 08/28/2017
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The Four-Room House: Typically Israelite?
• 08/07/2017
Are so-called four-room houses an infallible sign of Israelites’ presence just because many have been found at sites identified as Israelite? If you think they are, how do you avoid Read more…
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Tarshish: Hacksilber Hoards Pinpoint Solomon’s Silver Source
• 07/11/2017
What is the location of Tarshish, the Biblical source of the Phoenician silver trade? A Hacksilber Project study points to Spain and Sardinia as the Biblical world’s source of Read more…
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Who Tells the Truth—the Bible or Archaeology?
• 05/15/2017
Is the Hebrew Bible a bunch of tales with no value to a historian? Does archaeology hold the keys to truth instead? What are the limitations of both sources of Read more…
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High Places, Altars and the Bamah
• 04/23/2017
The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon. Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot Read more…
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The Archaeological Quest for the Earliest Christians
• 04/08/2017
In part one of a two-part series, Douglas Boin presents new archaeological and historical research in the study of early Christianity. Read more…
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The Archaeological Quest for the Earliest Christians
• 04/08/2017
In part two of a two-part series, Douglas Boin challenges the idea that Christians left so few archaeological traces behind because they couldn’t afford to make them. Read more…
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How Was Jesus’ Tomb Sealed?
• 04/06/2017
Urban C. von Wahlde looks at the Gospel accounts to see how the stone that sealed the tomb of Jesus is portrayed. Read more…
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Ancient Samaria and Jerusalem
• 04/04/2017
Jill Katz explains how the field of urban anthropology can shed light on the ideological differences between Jerusalem and Samaria. Read more…
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Biblical Studies in the Digital Age
• 04/03/2017
In BAR, digital archaeologist Todd R. Hanneken provides an expert overview of innovative technologies his team uses to study an erased parchment manuscript of the Book of Jubilees, an extra-Biblical Read more…
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Watch on CNN: Finding Jesus
• 03/06/2017
CNN’s Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery investigates artifacts that may shed new light on Jesus and his world. Read more…
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Call for Entries: Biblical Archaeology Society 2017 Publication Awards
• 02/21/2017
Nominations are invited for the 2017 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Awards for books published in 2015 and 2016. Read more…
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Digs 2017: Digging Through Time
• 12/19/2016
Each year students and volunteers from around the world travel through time by participating in excavations. We explore the history of the land of the Bible as we dig into Read more…
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2016 BAS Scholarship Winners
• 12/13/2016
Straight from the field to you, hear from the individuals who were awarded BAS dig scholarships in 2016. Read more…
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Ashkelon Through the Ages
• 11/08/2016
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem exhibit “Ashkelon: A Retrospective. 30 Years of the Leon Levy Expedition” is on display at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem through August 5, 2017. Read more…
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Jezreel Expedition Sheds New Light on Ahab and Jezebel’s City
• 05/01/2016
There is much more to Jezreel than just the fortified hilltop site. “Greater Jezreel” includes a nearby spring that was the lifeblood of the city, as well as a sloping Read more…
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Digs 2016: Passport to the Biblical World
• 12/14/2015
Each summer, volunteers from around the world come to Israel and Jordan to participate in archaeological digs. Grab your passport and join BAR as we visit four digs that will Read more…
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2015 Scholarship Recipients Dig into the Biblical World
• 12/11/2015
Straight from the field to you, hear from the individuals who were awarded BAS scholarships in 2015. Read more…
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First Person: Is “Bible” a Dirty Word?
• 09/28/2015
In Hershel Shanks’s First Person in the September/October 2015 issue of BAR, he wonders if the words “Bible” and “Biblical” are becoming taboo in modern politics—and in archaeology. Read more…
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An Archaeological Journey from Genesis through Jesus
• 06/12/2015
Editor Hershel Shanks has hand-picked 40 notable articles from BAR to honor the magazine’s 40th anniversary. Read more…
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First Person: What Should We Do with $25,000?
• 04/20/2015
We have $25,000 available for an archaeological project! Yes, it’s true, and we’re inviting proposals. Here’s how it happened: Herod the Great lives on. Read more…
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First Person: BAR’s 40th Birthday
• 03/16/2015
For BAR’s 40th birthday, Hershel Shanks reminisces in his First Person column about the first issue of BAR. Read more…
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The Biblical Archaeology Society 2015 Publication Awards Call For Entries
• 02/18/2015
Nominations are invited for the 2015 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Awards for books published in 2013 and 2014. Read more…
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Celebrate 40 Years of BAR
• 02/09/2015
Celebrate BAR’s 40th birthday with us! Read more…
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Biblical Archaeology: Whither and Whence
• 02/09/2015
Giants in Biblical archaeology, Eric and Carol Meyers sit down with BAR’s editor to discuss the past 40 years of the field. Read the full interview as it appears in Read more…
