Nov 19
By: Glenn J. Corbett
There are many problems associated with artifacts and objects that lack a secure archaeological context. As Biblical Archaeology Review readers know, we typically describe such […]
Jun 9
By: Glenn J. Corbett
Like many of you, we enter this summer season both deeply aware of the incredible pain and loss our global community has suffered during the […]
May 23
By: BAS Staff
In the Summer 2021 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, read touching tributes from family, friends, and BAS staff as they remember the late Hershel Shanks, […]
Mar 25
By: Jonathan Klawans
The traditional location of the Last Supper—the Crusader era “Upper Room,” known also as the Cenacle—has one thing going for it: height. The only location-specific […]
Feb 22
By: BAS Staff
Take a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the revered site of Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection, in the Spring 2021 issue of […]
Nov 13
By: Győző Vörös
Timeline of Events at Machaerus Late Hellenistic (Hasmonean) Period c. 90 B.C.: The Machaerus fortress was founded by King Alexander Jannaeus. During the reign […]
Nov 4
By: BAS Staff
Step inside King Herod’s palace-fortress at Machaerus, east of the Dead Sea, in the Winter 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. BAR readers get a […]
Jul 31
By: Megan Sauter
In light of the global pandemic, museums throughout the world have closed their physical doors. Yet rather than pausing their educational mission, many have opened […]
Jul 23
By: BAS Staff
For millennia, humans have attempted to depict the divine. The Fall 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review offers some intriguing examples of this phenomenon. Early Christian depictions of Jesus in which he holds a "magic wand". What John 1 means when it says “God is love.” And a new archaeological discovery.
