Oct 9
By: Marek Dospěl
In the first two centuries CE, Jews led two major revolts against the Romans—first, the Great Revolt (66–74), then the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132–135). In their […]
Sep 19
By: Robin Ngo
AnneMarie Luijendijk has identified a previously unknown Late Antique text containing oracles called The Gospel of the Lots of Mary.
Sep 12
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.
Sep 10
By: Jonathan Laden
A stone, engraved in Greek, reading “Christ born of Mary.”, was found at el-Taiyiba in the Jezreel Valley in the Upper Galilee. It had originally […]
Sep 5
By: BAS Staff
Read the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson.
Aug 15
By: Megan Sauter
Who were the original humans that God created in the Garden of Eden: Adam and Eve? Or Adam and Lilith? A close look at the opening chapters of Genesis—and ancient Jewish mythology—may suggest that Lilith came before Eve!
Aug 14
By: Robert Edwards
When a massive earthquake struck Antakya, Turkey, in 2023 (see Going, Going, Gone: Devastation in Antakya), this was, sadly, far from the first time. A […]
Aug 1
By: Robin Ngo
New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole examines what the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas reveal about the early Christian world in which they were written.
Jul 16
By: David Christian Clausen
The traditional location of the Upper Room, a site featured in the New Testament Gospels, is today placed on the southern end of Mount Zion […]
Jun 15
By: Megan Sauter
In which year was Jesus born? While this is sometimes debated, the majority of New Testament scholars place Jesus’ birth in 4 B.C. or before.
