Hebrew Bible

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 […]

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 […]

By: Ellen White

Who are the Nephilim? From where do the “heroes of old, the men of renown” come?

By: Clinton J. Moyer

If one were to open a modern printed edition of the Hebrew Bible to a random page, one would encounter a complex layering of information. […]

By: Jennifer Drummond

The world’s oldest Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex, is missing pages—and not just a couple leaves, but four of the Five Books of Moses! What happened to them?

By: Marek Dospěl

What does the Bibleclaim about the Israelites’ forced labor for the Pharaoh? Looking for the most plausible match in ancient Egyptian architecture.

By: Ellen White

Dogs—or celeb in Hebrew—were not well loved in the Bible. Given the negative associations with dogs, it is surprising that one of the great Hebrew spies bears this name.

By: BAS Staff

Throughout its long history, the Aleppo Codex has been carefully and jealously guarded. Today, however, the Aleppo Codex online project has placed the Aleppo Codex among the ranks of other ancient Biblical manuscripts that have been made available to all via the web.

By: Jennifer Drummond

The oldest Hebrew Bible texts are the Dead Sea Scrolls (c. 250 B.C.E.–115 C.E.), but the most nearly complete copies of the Hebrew Bible are codices from a thousand years ago. What happened in the period between these two discoveries? The Ashkar-Gilson Manuscript fills the gap in our knowledge of this interim period.

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

What is a biblical family tree if not a family tree? Genesis 10 famously presents the so-called “Table of Nations,” a long list of the […]