Reviews
Apr 8
Reconstructing Judah
By: Thomas E. Levy
The Archaeology of the Kingdom of Judah By Yosef Garfinkel (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025), 453 pp. / $80 (paperback or eBook) Reviewed by Thomas E. […]
Mar 25
The Bible’s First Kings
By: Michael G. Hasel
The Bible’s First Kings: Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon By Avraham Faust and Zev I. Farber (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2025), 464 […]
Jan 28
The Quest for John the Baptist
By: Zeba Crook
John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptizer By James F. McGrath (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024), 486 pp., $59.99 (hardcover and […]
Dec 1
Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls
By: Abigail Naidu
Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls By Andrew Perrin (Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2025), 348 pp., 66 figs. (color & b/w photos, […]
Nov 28
Review: The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity
By: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity By Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debié, trans. by Jeffrey Haines (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, […]
Oct 13
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 1
Jerusalem Through the Ages
By: Shimon Gibson
Jerusalem Through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades By Jodi Magness (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2024), x + 614 pp., 157 b/w […]
Sep 10
The Boomer Archaeologist
By: Donald Kane
The Boomer Archaeologist: A Graphic Memoir of Tribes, Identity, and the Holy Land By Thomas Evan Levy, illustrated by Lily Almeida (Sheffield: Equinox, 2025), 408 […]
Aug 13
Boy Jesus
By: James W. Barker
Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times By Joan Taylor (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2025), xvi + 340 pp., 16 color plates, 12 […]
Jul 14
Review: Excavating the Land of Jesus
By: Matthew J. Grey
Excavating the Land of Jesus How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels By James Riley Strange (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2023), 192 pp., 29 […]









