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Sep 8 Blog

How Were Biblical Psalms Originally Performed?

Biblical psalms have throughout millennia been an important part of traditional Jewish and Christian worship. How were Biblical psalms originally performed?

Sep 3 Blog

Daily Life in Ancient Israel

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

What was life like for the tribes of Israel in the time of the Biblical Judges, the period archaeologists call Iron Age I (1200–1000 B.C.E.)?

Mar 2 Blog

Did the Ancient Israelites Think Children Were People?

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?

Nov 21 Blog

Israelite Cosmology and the Orientation of Iron Age Houses

By: Marek Dospěl

Why are most of the houses from Iron Age Israel and Judah oriented to the east?

Aug 7 Blog

The Four-Room House: Typically Israelite?

By: Marek Dospěl

Are so-called four-room houses an infallible sign of Israelites’ presence just because many have been found at sites identified as Israelite? If you think they are, how do you avoid the pitfall of circular argumentation, which is implied in this reasoning?

Mar 10 Blog

Tel ‘Eton Excavations Reveal Possible Judahite Administrative Center

By: Robin Ngo

Archaeological work at the site of Tel ‘Eton in Israel may have uncovered an important Iron Age Judahite administrative center.

Nov 25 Blog

Roman Game Board Found in Turkey

By: Robin Ngo

Dec 8 Blog

Board Games Were Status Symbols in the Ancient World

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

In the ancient world, board games, one of the world’s oldest hobbies, were played not only to pass the time, but also to signify the […]

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