book review

By: Thomas E. Levy

The Archaeology of the Kingdom of Judah By Yosef Garfinkel (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025), 453 pp. / $80 (paperback or eBook) Reviewed by Thomas E. […]

By: Zeba Crook

John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptizer By James F. McGrath (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024), 486 pp., $59.99 (hardcover and […]

By: Jonathan Redding

The Book of Esther Word for Word Bible Comic series (Bristol, United Kingdom: Word for Word Bible Comics, 2024), i–ix + 84 pp. Acts of […]

By: Matthew J. Grey

Excavating the Land of Jesus How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels By James Riley Strange (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2023), 192 pp., 29 […]

By: Konstantinos Politis

Mount Machaerus An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan By Győző Vörös (Amman: The […]

By: James Riley Strange

Ancient Synagogues Revealed 1981–2022 Edited by Lee I. Levine, Zeev Weiss, and Uzi Leibner (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, The Institute of Archaeology – The Hebrew […]

By: Erin Darby

God: An Anatomy By Francesca Stavrakopoulou (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), 592 pp., 3 maps, 57 b/w figs., 33 color photos; $35.00 (hardback) Reviewed […]

By: Christopher A. Frilingos

The Magi Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate By Eric Vanden Eykel (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022), 218 pp.; […]

By: BAS Staff

Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible By Dalit Rom-Shiloni (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021), xviii + 562 […]

By: Edward L. Greenstein

Bedouin Culture in the Bible By Clinton Bailey (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2018), 278 pp., 28 b/w illus., $55.00 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edward […]