
Ehud Galili reviews “The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context” by Shelley Wachsmann. Read more…
Enjoy book reviews by top scholars on wide-ranging topics in religion, archaeology and Biblical studies.
• 02/12/2016
Ehud Galili reviews “The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context” by Shelley Wachsmann. Read more…
• 12/11/2015
Birger A. Pearson reviews The Nag Hammadi Story: Vol. 1 & 2 by James M. Robinson. Read more…
• 12/11/2015
Ben Witherington III reviews Discovery House Bible Atlas by John A. Beck. Read more…
• 10/02/2015
James D.G. Dunn reviews Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014) by M. David Litwa. Read more…
• 10/02/2015
Claire Pfann reviews In the Master’s Steps: The Gospels in the Land, The Carta New Testament Atlas, vol. 1 (Jerusalem: Carta, 2014) by R. Steven Notley. Read more…
• 08/12/2015
Aren M. Maeir reviews “Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, Practice, 3rd ed.” by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn. Read more…
• 08/12/2015
Henry Maguire reviews “Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land” by Rina Talgam. Read more…
• 06/03/2015
Benjamin D. Gordon reviews “Ancient Synagogues— Archaeology and Art: New Discoveries and Current Research” by Rachel Hachlili. Read more…
• 06/03/2015
Aren M. Maeir reviews “Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble” by Marilyn Johnson. Read more…
• 06/03/2015
Ellen White reviews “Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim,” edited by Peter Barnet, Michael Brandt and Gerhard Lutz. Read more…
• 04/03/2015
Larry G. Herr reviews “Biblical Lachish: A Tale of Construction, Destruction, Excavation and Restoration” by David Ussishkin. Read more…
• 04/03/2015
Aren M. Maeir reviews “How Israel Became a People” by Ralph K. Hawkins. Read more…
• 04/03/2015
Martin Heide reviews “Understanding the Alphabet of the Dead Sea Scrolls—Development, Chronology, Dating” by Ada Yardeni. Read more…
• 02/06/2015
Joan R. Branham reviews “Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art” by Lee I. Levine. Read more…
• 02/06/2015
James D.G. Dunn reviews “Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel” by David Limbaugh. Read more…
• 12/05/2014
James H. Charlesworth reviews “Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture” edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel and Lawrence H. Schiffman. Read more…
• 12/05/2014
David M. Jacobson reviews “The True Herod” by Geza Vermes. Read more…
• 10/03/2014
Megan Sauter reviews “Chagall: Love, War and Exile” by Susan Tumarkin Goodman, with an essay by Kenneth E. Silver. Read more…
• 10/03/2014
James C. VanderKam reviews “The Formation of the Jewish Canon” by Timothy H. Lim.
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• 10/03/2014
Leen Ritmeyer reviews “The Jerusalem Western Wall Tunnel” by Dan Bahat. Read more…
• 10/03/2014
Some may condemn it. Others will praise it. It is essentially a picture catalog of 1,034 unprovenanced oil lamps from the collection of the author, Chaim Kaufman. Despite its Hebrew Read more…
• 09/29/2014
Archaeology has come a long way since 19th-century explorers first mapped Biblical sites. Two recent volumes highlight the value of a new interdisciplinary approach as archaeologist Avraham Faust explores Israelite Read more…
• 08/13/2014
Nitza Rosovsky reviews “Tourists, Travellers, and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem” edited by Shimon Gibson, Yoni Shapira and Rupert L. Chapman III. Read more…
• 08/13/2014
Itzhaq Shai reviews “Excavating the Bible: New Archaeological Evidence for the Historical Reliability of Scripture” by Yitzhak Meitlis. Read more…
• 07/02/2014
The Forgotten Kingdom by Israel Finkelstein traces the development of the northern kingdom of Israel to an earlier time associated with the reign of King Saul. The award-winning work is Read more…