Biblical Topics
Oct 12
What Is the Bar-Kokhba Revolt?
In the early second century CE, the southern Levant was home to a diverse population of Judeans, Nabataeans, Greeks, Samaritans, and others, whose languages, customs, […]
Oct 8
What Happened to Cain in the Bible?
By: Megan Sauter
In the Book of Genesis, we are told about Cain’s birth, his violent act of fratricide and his subsequent exile. We learn that he married and had descendants, but the Bible is strangely mute about his death.
Oct 7
The Bible in Living Color
By: Jonathan Redding
The Book of Esther Word for Word Bible Comic series (Bristol, United Kingdom: Word for Word Bible Comics, 2024), i–ix + 84 pp. Acts of […]
Oct 6
The Nephilim and the Sons of God
By: John Drummond
Sandwiched between the genealogies of Adam’s descendants and the tale of Noah’s flood are a few enigmatic verses that leave many of us scratching our […]
Oct 5
The Face of God
When people today say, “God sees me,” they are often communicating their sense that God knows what they are going through, e.g., they do not […]
Oct 4
Who Are the Nephilim?
By: Ellen White
Who are the Nephilim? From where do the “heroes of old, the men of renown” come?
Oct 3
The Hidden History of Jerusalem’s Upper Room
Just outside Zion Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City sits a small building considered by many Christians to be the location of Jesus’s Last Supper, and […]
Oct 1
Roman Crucifixion Methods Reveal the History of Crucifixion
By: BAS Staff
What do we know about the history of crucifixion? Hershel Shanks looks at evidence of Roman crucifixion methods as analyzed from the remains found in Jerusalem of a young man crucified in the first century A.D.
Sep 28
Second Temple Era Mikveh Found…then Moved
A remarkable archaeological discovery has been made in Kiryat Gat (southern Israel), during excavations ahead of construction in the new Carmei Gat neighborhood. The Israel […]
Sep 27
The Origin of Christianity
By: Noah Wiener
Geza Vermes explores the origin of Christianity by examining the characteristics of the Jewish Jesus movement to see how it developed into a distinctly gentile religion.
