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Apr 14 Blog

Jesus’ Last Supper Still Wasn’t a Passover Seder Meal

Many people still assume that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Seder, a ritual meal held in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Passover. In this exclusive Bible History Daily guest post, Boston University Professor of Religion Jonathan Klawans provides an update to his popular Bible Review article questioning this common assumption.

Late-15th-century painting of The Last Supper by the Spanish artist known as the Master of Perea.

Mar 31 Blog

Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?

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.

Jan 6 Blog

A Tomb in Jerusalem Reveals the History of Crucifixion and Roman Crucifixion Methods

By: BAS Staff

In the history of crucifixion, the death of Jesus of Nazareth stands out as the best-known example by far. Crucifixion in antiquity was actually a fairly common punishment, but there were no known physical remains from a crucifixion. Then, in 1968, archaeologist Vassilios Tzaferis excavated a Jerusalem tomb that contained the bones of a crucified man named Yehohanan. As Tzaferis reported in BAR, the discovery demonstrated the brutal reality of Roman crucifixion methods in a way that written accounts never had before.

Judas Betrays Jesus with a Kiss 1873 in 'The story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation'

Mar 27 Blog

Why Did Judas Identify Jesus with a Kiss?

By: Hershel Shanks

I’ve been reading a new book titled Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem “On the Life and the Passion of Christ”: A Coptic Apocryphon by the Dutch scholar Roelof van den Broek.1 In case it has escaped your attention, it provides a new translation of an eighth-century Gnostic gospel in Coptic from Egypt that has been in the Morgan Library in New York since 1908, a gift of J.P. Morgan.

Oct 31 Blog

Jesus Before Pilate

By: Marek Dospěl

The Gospels offer a surprisingly excusatory depiction of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Judea directly responsible for Jesus’ death. While the contemporary sources do not mention Pilate’s fatal involvement with the itinerant rabbi from Galilee, they reveal a governor determined to promote Roman religion in Judea and to ruthlessly suppress any form of dissent.

Sep 19 Blog

The Gospel of the Lots of Mary

By: Robin Ngo

AnneMarie Luijendijk has identified a previously unknown Late Antique text containing oracles called The Gospel of the Lots of Mary.

Dec 27 Blog

The Last Days of Jesus

By: Reviewed by Helmut Koester

Helmut Koester reviews "The Last Days of Jesus" by François Bovon, Kristin Hennessy, translator.

Dec 24 Blog

The Final Days of Jesus

By: Reviewed by Urban C. von Wahlde

Urban C. von Wahlde reviews "The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence" by Shimon Gibson.

Jan 23 Blog

It Could Be the Tomb

By: James Tabor

Back to “Jesus Tomb” Controversy Erupts—Again James Tabor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1. There was no official “conclusion” made by the participants, nor […]

Mar 14 Blog

Two Burials of Jesus of Nazareth and the Talpiot Yeshua Tomb

By: James Tabor

Back to “Jesus Tomb” Controversy Erupts—Again James D. Tabor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Jodi Magness argues on this web site that the controversial […]

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