Mar 31 Blog
By: Jonathan Klawans
Many assume that Jesus' Last Supper was a Seder, the ritual Passover meal. Examine evidence from the synoptic Gospels with scholar Jonathan Klawans.
Jun 21 Blog
By: T. M. Lemos
The Book of Exodus presumably reflects the views of its Israelite authors on their deity, morality, and the like. Why then would the Israelites have imagined Yahweh slaughtering Egyptian children for sins the children themselves had not committed? Did the Israelites even think children were persons with any type of rights?
Apr 1 Blog
By: BAS Staff
The Book of Exodus describes ten Egyptian plagues that bring suffering to the land of pharaoh. Are these Biblical plagues plausible on any level?
Feb 6 Blog
Who was Moses? Was he more than an Exodus hero? Discover the Biblical Moses with Peter Machinist in his article “The Man Moses.”
Sep 10 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
The Israel Antiquities Authority launched the updated Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a website that allows visitors to view and search high-resolution images of the complete Dead Sea Scrolls archive online.
Dec 31 Blog
By: Robin Ngo
Check out the top 10 Bible History Daily blog posts published in 2018 that received the most web traffic.
Apr 27 Blog
While we know this refers to the land of Israel, what does “flowing with milk and honey” mean? A new exhibit at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, looks at this question anew.
Jan 15 Blog
The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry recently announced the excavation of a 3,000-year-old fortress—the largest discovered to date in Egypt—at the site of Tell el-Habua.
Mar 11 Blog
By: Noah Wiener
Watch dozens of full-length lectures from the 2014 international conference Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination.
Feb 13 Blog
The Bible in the News, Aspects of Monotheism, The Rise of Ancient Israel, Feminist Approaches to the Bible and The Search for Jesus are now available as digital publications for your eReader
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