Nov 18
By: BAS Staff
Pigs Taboo I HAVEN’T READ the book Evolution of a Taboo, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir (Book Review, Spring 2022), but I will add that from […]
Oct 5
By: Megan Sauter
Who are Rachel and Leah in the Bible? Sisters, rivals, mothers, matriarchs—these two women had a complicated relationship. In the Fall 2022 issue of Biblical Archaeology […]
Sep 14
By: Marek Dospěl
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) cracked the code of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script and the language behind it. […]
Sep 8
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Watch an EXCLUSIVE interview with Joe Uziel, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls Unit, who discusses the recovery of a papyrus that […]
Jun 29
By: Megan Sauter
Earthquakes. Drought. Famine. Plague. War. Mass migration. Sadly, we are not strangers to these phenomena. Neither were those who lived in Mediterranean kingdoms during the […]
May 25
By: Jennifer Drummond
Sustainability is something we hear about a lot these days. New items are developed every day to help reduce waste in our daily lives. One […]
Apr 6
By: Andrea Nicolotti
Today many consider the Shroud of Turin—the alleged burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth—to be the most important relic of Christianity.1 It is a linen […]
Mar 1
By: Jonathan Laden
The name of Priscilla in the New Testament does not come up often in Bible study. Yet, as Ben Witherington III explains in “Priscilla—An Extraordinary […]
Feb 25
By: BAS Staff
Take part in our ever-popular Caption Contest. Write a caption for this cartoon based on Jonah 1:17: “But the LORD provided a large fish to […]
