Milestones

By: Morag Kersel and Meredith Chesson

On March 3, 2025, we lost an understated and under-recognized giant in the field of biblical archaeology. Nancy Lapp (née Renn) was steadfast in her […]

By: James K. Hoffmeier

Kenneth A. Kitchen was a giant in the field of Near Eastern studies. His academic interests spanned the languages and histories of the entire Near […]

By: Lily Singer-Avitz

Ze’ev Meshel, renowned Israeli archaeologist, exemplary guide, passionate desert lover, and explorer, passed away on December 14, 2024, at his home in Givatayim, Israel. He […]

By: Aaron Koller

Ethnographer Clinton Bailey devoted nearly 60 years—two-thirds of his long and productive life—to the lives of the Bedouin in the Negev and Sinai. Throughout his […]

By: BAS Staff

Donald Redford, renowned Egyptologist and long-time professor of the ancient world at Pennsylvania State University, passed away on October 18, 2024, in State College, Pennsylvania. […]

By: K. Lawson Younger

Alan Millard passed away in Leamington Spa, England, on June 6, 2024. He was 86 years old. Millard was Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and […]

By: K. Lawson Younger

Edward Lipiński, one of the giants in Aramaic, Phoenician, Semitics, and biblical studies, passed away on April 12, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. He was 93 […]

By: Katia Cytryn

On February 8, 2024, Donald (Don) Whitcomb, a cherished colleague, mentor, and inspiration to numerous scholars and students, passed away at the age of 79. […]

By: Konstantinos Politis

  Jonathan Tubb, renowned archaeologist and long-time curator of Levantine antiquities at the British Museum, passed away on September 25, 2023 in London. He was […]

By: Igor Kreimerman

Amnon Ben-Tor, one of the giants of biblical archaeology and long-time excavator of the important biblical site of Hazor in northern Israel, passed away on […]