
Brian E. Daley, S.J. reviews “Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth” by Alan F. Segal and “Sin: The Early History of an Idea” Read more…
Enjoy book reviews by top scholars on wide-ranging topics in religion, archaeology and Biblical studies.
• 06/11/2014
Brian E. Daley, S.J. reviews “Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth” by Alan F. Segal and “Sin: The Early History of an Idea” Read more…
• 04/09/2014
Megan Sauter reviews “The Art of Empathy: The Mother of Sorrows in Northern Renaissance Art and Devotion” by David S. Areford. Read more…
• 04/09/2014
Adam John Fraser reviews “The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology” by Kathleen L. Sheppard. Read more…
• 04/09/2014
Mary Joan Winn Leith reviews “What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?” by Ziony Zevit. Read more…
• 02/12/2014
Aaron A. Burke reviews “The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology 2 vols.” edited by Daniel M. Master. Read more…
• 12/12/2013
Megan Sauter reviews “Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt” edited by Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer. Read more…
• 12/12/2013
Victor Paul Furnish reviews “‘Is This Not the Carpenter?’ The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus” edited by Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna. Read more…
• 11/04/2013
Vassilios Tzaferis reviews “Christians and Christianity, Vol. III & IV (Churches and Monasteries in Samaria and Northern Judea and Churches and Monasteries in Judea)” edited by Noga Carmin. Read more…
• 10/09/2013
Hershel Shanks reviews “Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria (Fourth Century B.C.E.) From the Khalili Collections” edited by Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked. Read more…
• 08/13/2013
The 2013 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Awards recognize the best books published in 2011 and 2012. The biennial BAS Publication Awards for books about archaeology and the Bible have been Read more…
• 08/13/2013
James D.G. Dunn reviews “Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery: The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate” edited by Tony Burke. Read more…
• 08/13/2013
Eric H. Cline reviews “The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel:Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect” by William G. Dever. Read more…
• 08/01/2013
Aren Maeir reviews “The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal: Excavation and Interpretation” by Ralph K. Hawkins. Read more…
• 06/12/2013
Charlotte Hempel reviews “The Dead Sea Scrolls—A Biography” by John J. Collins. Read more…
• 06/07/2013
Shimon Gibson reviews “The Walls of the Temple Mount (2 vols.)” by Eilat Mazar (with Y. Shalev, P. Reuven, J. Steinberg and B. Balogh). Read more…
• 05/06/2013
Dorothy D. Resig reviews “Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion” edited by Patricia C. Pongracz. Read more…
• 04/10/2013
Weston W. Fields reviews “Doyen of the Dead Sea Scrolls” by Zdzislaw J. Kapera and Robert Feather. Read more…
• 04/03/2013
William G. Dever reviews “Ashkelon 3 The Seventh Century B.C.” and “Hazor: The 1990–2009 Excavations: The Iron Age” by Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master, J. David Schloen, Amnon Ben-Tor, Read more…
• 02/19/2013
Nominations are invited for the 2013 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Awards, for books published in 2011 and 2012. The biennial BAS Publication Awards for books about archaeology and the Bible Read more…
• 02/13/2013
James D.G. Dunn reviews “Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity” by James D. Tabor. Read more…
• 02/13/2013
Urban C. von Wahlde reviews “Le Projet Béthesda (1994–2010)” by Claudine Dauphin and Shimon Gibson. Read more…
• 01/10/2013
Morten Hørning Jensen reviews “Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible (Vol. 3)” by Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey. Read more…
• 12/12/2012
George Giacumakis reviews “Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence” by Craig A. Evans. Read more…
• 12/12/2012
Étienne Nodet reviews “Parables of the Sages: Jewish Wisdom from Jesus to Rav Ashi” by R. Steven Notley and Ze’ev Safrai. Read more…
• 10/10/2012
The fiscus Judaicus was a tax imposed on the Jews of the Roman Empire by Emperor Vespasian in the early 70s C.E. Whereas formerly the Jews had sent a half Read more…