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Oct 27 Blog

Solving the Enigma of Petra and the Nabataeans

Who were the Nabataeans, the industrious Arab people who built the city of Petra and its towering rock-cut monuments over 2,000 years ago?

Apr 9 Blog

The Masoretic Text and the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: BAS Staff

Do insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls add to the Masoretic text, and if so, should the original Hebrew Bible text be modified based this information? Scholars from both sides of the divide weigh in on this issue.

Sep 22 Blog

Milestones: Bert de Vries (1939-2021)

By: Barbara A. Porter

On March 28, Bert de Vries, long time director of the Umm al Jimal excavations in Jordan and former director of the American Center of […]

Jun 3 Blog

5 Questions: Meet BAR’s New Editor

By: BAS Staff

Glenn J. Corbett became editor of Biblical Archaeology Review in March, 2021. These 5 questions give an introduction to the man and the archaeologist.

Oct 28 Blog

The Nabonidus Inscription at Sela

By: Megan Sauter

In the sixth century B.C.E., the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus inscribed imperial propaganda on a cliff at Sela, a mountain fortress in modern Jordan, after conquering the Edomite site. The 10-by-6.5-foot inscription rests 300 feet above ground—halfway up a 600-foot-tall cliff!

Inscribed 2,800-yr-old altar from Ancient Ataroth

Aug 26 Blog

Inscribed Moabite Altar Mentions Biblical Rebellion

By: Jonathan Laden

Two Moabite inscriptions appear on a 2,800-year-old stone altar from Ataroth in modern Jordan. Notably, the words are written in the Moabite language and script, […]

Jun 5 Blog

Exhibit Watch: Exodus, Cyber-Archaeology and the Future

By: Noah Wiener

Following the recent conference “Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination,” UC San Diego is hosting the exhibit “EX3: Exodus, Cyber-Archaeology and the Future” through Sunday, June 9, 2013.

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