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May 20 Blog

More Queries and Comments Summer 2024

Grateful for BAR I REALLY CHERISH BAR. As a Christian, reading BAR prompts me to look up events/scripture in the Bible. For this alone, I […]

Dec 6 Blog

Ancient Game Die Discovered

By: Jonathan Laden

For almost two hundred years, Beit El has been claimed by some scholars as the site of biblical Bethel, where in the Bible, Jacob dreamed […]

Mar 9 Blog

The Great Bethsaida Debate

By: Megan Sauter

Bethsaida appears seven times in the Bible. Jesus performed miracles there (e.g., Matthew 11:21; Mark 8:22), and it was the hometown of the apostles Peter, […]

Feb 27 Blog

First Person: Where Is the Real Biblical Bethsaida?

By: Robert R. Cargill

It is no wonder that the signs designating Tel Beit Tsaida, or Bethsaida, a little more than a mile northeast of the Sea of […]

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