Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?
03/28 | Many assume that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Seder, the ritual Passover meal. Examine evidence from the synoptic Gospels with scholar Jonathan Klawans. Read more…
Posted in Jesus/Historical Jesus.
Tag: jewish christians
The Ancient Library of Alexandria
03/02 | When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C.E., the Ptolemaic dynasty was given control of Egypt. Ptolemy I (c. 367–283 B.C.E.) established his capital at Alexandria and immediately began to Read more…
Posted in Biblical Archaeology Places.
Was Jesus a Jew?
08/10 | Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian. Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian. But in recent decades scholars have been returning to Read more…
Posted in People & Cultures in the Bible, Jesus/Historical Jesus.
- Roman Emperor Nerva’s Reform of the Jewish Tax
- The Origin of Christianity
- The Jewish-Christian Schism
- The Limits of Tolerance: Halakhah and History
- The Last Days of Jesus: A Final “Messianic” Meal
- The November/December 2012 Biblical Archaeology Review
- The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways
- Pella: A Window on Survival
- How Jewish Is the New Testament?
- Resurrection
