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Mar 10 Blog

10 Great Biblical Artifacts at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

By: David Moster

10 The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem houses one of the world’s most important collections of Biblical artifacts.

Mar 3 Blog

Who Were the Philistines, and Where Did They Come From?

By: Megan Sauter

The Philistines are best known from the Bible as the Israelites’ enemies, but they were much more than that. Recent archaeological discoveries help inform our […]

Feb 1 Blog

Who Was the Wife of Cain?

By: BAS Staff

Who did Cain marry? Where did she come from? Mary Joan Winn Leith suggests that while the Israelite storyteller knew that other men and women in Genesis existed outside of Eden, they did not matter to him or factor into his account. He was concerned with Adam and Eve and their progeny—not those outside of this group.

Dec 2 Blog

First Person: Did the Kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon Actually Exist?

By: Hershel Shanks

In BAR, Hershel Shanks examines a recent article published by archaeologist Amihai Mazar. Mazar contends that while the Biblical narratives were written hundreds of years after the reigns of Saul, David and Solomon, they “retain memories of reality.”

Nov 14 Blog

The Philistines Are Coming!

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

The traditional view of the biblical Philistines sees them as an organized and powerful force that moved in and conquered part of the southern Levant […]

Sep 25 Blog

Who Were the Phoenicians?

By: Megan Sauter

With a commercial empire that lasted a millennium, the Phoenicians were major players in the ancient Mediterranean world. Spreading their culture and goods, they came into contact with many different groups, but their relationship with the Israelites was distinct.

Aug 15 Blog

Who Were the Philistines?

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Mentioned throughout the Hebrew Bible as terrifying fighters, the Philistines were ancient Israel’s greatest enemy … or were they? Decades of excavation at Tell es-Safi […]

Jun 23 Blog

Exploring the land of the Philistines

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

In the Hebrew Bible, the geographic area of the Coastal Plain is often depicted as the heartland of the Philistines, with their major city-states situated […]

Jun 23 Blog

Collapse and Rebirth

By: BAS Staff

Looking back at the end of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE), it is easy to imagine the collapse as a single cataclysmic event […]

Jun 12 Blog

High Places, Altars and the Bamah

By: Ellen White

The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon. Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot were worship sites that usually contained an altar.

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