Oct 24 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
A product of archaeological looting, the Mesha Stele, or Moabite Stone, provides another example of the value of unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, that is, Bible artifacts found outside of a professional excavation.
Jun 8 Blog
To many professional archaeologists, “relic” is a dirty word. Biblical artifacts found to have a direct connection to a specific person or story in the Bible are sometimes denigrated as being without archaeological value. These Biblical artifacts are brushed aside in favor of more important archaeological discoveries that shed light on ancient social structures or the vast history of a people.
Oct 13 Blog
In her book The Sisters of Sinai, author Janet Soskice recounts the remarkable adventure that led to the discovery of the Sinai Palimpsest.
Oct 12 Blog
Ancient oil lamps are not terribly rare in the archaeology of Israel. They are one of the more frequent types of Biblical artifacts found during archaeological excavations in the Holy Land. About ten years ago, however, a very special lamp surfaced in the archaeological world.
Jul 20 Blog
The Dead Sea Scrolls discovery is so widely celebrated by the scholarly community and the scrolls have played such an important part in Biblical scholarship as the oldest biblical manuscripts that it is sometimes easy to forget that most of them are in fact Bible artifacts found during archaeological looting by Bedouin.
Jul 15 Blog
House shrines like this one are Biblical artifacts that enrich our understanding of ancient Israelite religion and iconography.
Many are no bigger than a quarter, but clay bullae are Biblical artifacts that have made vast contributions to our knowledge of ancient Israelite history, and especially about the people who lived it.
A trend has developed recently in the archaeological establishment: Ignore all unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, that is, Bible artifacts found outside of a professional excavation that […]
In this installment of our series on important unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, we look at Jewish incantation bowls inscribed with ancient magic spells in ancient Aramaic script.
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