Mar 30 Blog
By: Marek Dospěl
Jesus’ Last Supper and the Tomb of David are traditionally associated with a building called the Cenacle in Jerusalem. Can archaeology shed light on these traditions?
Jan 1 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
A seventh-century B.C.E. clay bulla inscribed in paleo-Hebrew script provides evidence for how ancient taxes were collected during the reign of the Biblical King Manasseh.
Dec 10 Blog
Straight from the field to you, hear from the individuals who were awarded BAS dig scholarships in 2018.
Jul 19 Blog
Sending condemned prisoners to mine copper in the Faynan in present-day Jordan was a popular form of early Christian persecution in the Roman Empire.
Apr 10 Blog
Bill Dever discusses BAR’s facilitation of the Biblical minimalism-maximalism debate, which centers on whether the establishment of ancient Israel took place in the tenth or the ninth century B.C.E.
Jul 23 Blog
By: Noah Wiener
The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) reported the discovery of a building that “might have been the house of Elisha the prophet” at Tel Rehov in Israel. The sixteen-year-long excavations at Tel Rehov, directed by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist Amihai Mazar, investigate the largest Canaanite and Israelite sites in the Beth-Shean Valley at one of the largest tells in the nation.
Oct 25 Blog
A new study of ancient Jerusalem’s topography suggests that the Biblical “King’s Garden” (Nehemiah 3:15) is not to be found near the lower end of […]
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