Jan 23 Blog
By: Leen Ritmeyer
Archaeological architect Leen Ritmeyer presents drawings of the Temple Mount in the Herodian period.
Jan 18 Blog
By: Dorothy Willette
Few people are familiar with the Biblical figure Nehemiah, and yet he was instrumental in the rebuilding and reestablishment of Jerusalem in the fifth century B.C. following the Babylonian exile.
Jul 2 Blog
By: Jonathan Laden
After King Nebuchadnezzar II attacked Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple in 586 B.C.E., the Jews were exiled in Babylon for some 50 years. At […]
Jun 8 Blog
By: BAS Staff
Who lived at Tel Hadid? Tel Hadid, which is believed to be the remains of Hadid from the Bible (first mentioned in Ezra 2:32 and […]
Dec 25 Blog
By: Marvin A. Sweeney
Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context Edited by Christopher A. Rollston (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018), 624 pp., tables, graphs, 1 […]
Oct 18 Blog
By: Hershel Shanks
We knew it would happen, but it’s still a shock. Frank Cross is dead. I will leave it to scholars to write of his scholarly accomplishments. I will write only of what I know: He stood at the very pinnacle of the profession, universally respected and admired. When he spoke, others stood in awe. The Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, the third oldest endowed academic chair in the United States, Cross was a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in obscure ancient languages, in the science of dating ancient inscriptions based on shape of the letters, in the Biblical text and in archaeology, to name but a few.
Jul 6 Blog
By: Harvey Minkoff
Isaiah's vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6). But does this beloved image of the Peaceable Kingdom contain a mistranslation?
Jun 21 Blog
Isaiah's vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible. Does this beloved image of the Peaceable Kingdom contain a mistranslation?
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