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Jan 20 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?

king-tut

Oct 14 Blog

Epilepsy, Tutankhamun and Monotheism

By: Noah Wiener

Tutankhamun died at a young age with a feminine physique. His closest relatives all shared similar features and fates. Imperial College London surgeon Hutan Ashrafian suggests that the royal family may have had an inherited disorder: frontal lobe epilepsy.

Ain Dara temple

Oct 7 Blog

Searching for the Temple of King Solomon

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The black basalt ruins of the Iron Age temple discovered at ’Ain Dara in northern Syria offer the closest known parallel to the Temple of King Solomon in the Bible.

beck-moses

Oct 4 Blog

Who Was Moses? Was He More than an Exodus Hero?

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Who was Moses? Was he more than an Exodus hero? Discover the Biblical Moses with Peter Machinist in his article “The Man Moses.”

Sep 28 Blog

Locating Zoar

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Read Master’s College professor Bill Schlegel’s commentary on the location of Zoar along with Steven Collins’s response.

Sep 18 Blog

The Expulsion of the Hyksos

By: Noah Wiener

In the 16th century B.C.E., Ahmose I overthrew the Hyksos and initiated the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom of Egypt. Recent archaeological discoveries at Tel Habuwa shed new light on Ahmose’s campaign.

Sep 16 Blog

Thonis—A Major Egyptian Port Swallowed by the Sea

By: Noah Wiener

At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea off the Egyptian coast lies the spectacular port city of Thonis.

Jul 5 Blog

Did Pharaoh Sheshonq Attack Jerusalem?

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Yigal Levin examines the historical veracity of both the Egyptian Pharaoh’s account and the Bible’s account of Sheshonq's invasion.

Mycenae

Jun 28 Blog

Bronze Age Collapse: Pollen Study Highlights Late Bronze Age Drought

By: Noah Wiener

What caused the Bronze Age collapse? A study of pollen grains in sediment cores beneath the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea provides a different view of the Bronze Age collapse.

May 2 Blog

Jethro in the Bible

By: Elie Wiesel

Read the article by Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel as it appeared in Bible Review.

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