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Cropped illustration shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where God gave them the command to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28). Photo: From Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible (1897).

Jun 22 Blog

What Does the Bible Say About Infertility?

Joel S. Baden and Candida R. Moss analyze the Biblical portrayal of infertility in the Biblical Views column “Reevaluating Biblical Infertility.”

Apr 25 Blog

Who Were the Hittites?

By: Ellen White

Archaeology tells us a lot about the Hittites—and the Neo-Hittites too. But it’s hard to reconcile this with the Hittites of the Bible.

Jan 18 Blog

Virtually Explore Jesus’ Tomb at the National Geographic Museum

By: Samuel Pfister

3-D technology brings Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to life in the National Geographic Museum exhibit Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience.

Feb 19 Blog

Who Was Noah’s Wife?

By: John Drummond

Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel—the names of biblical matriarchs such as these have lived on long after they were first written down more than […]

Jun 4 Blog

Freedom Speaks Hurrian: A Cuneiform Song of Liberation

By: Marek Dospěl

Human history is sadly full of stories of people struggling for freedom and justice in opposition to other people’s desire for dominance and exploitation. And […]

Dec 26 Blog

Digs 2019: A Day in the Life

By: Robert Cargill

When the alarm clock blares at 4 a.m., it’s time to get up and start the dig day. Join BAR Editor Robert R. Cargill in his trademark tie-dye shirt as he walks you through a typical day in the life of an archaeological dig participant.

Dec 10 Blog

2018 BAS Scholarship Winners

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Straight from the field to you, hear from the individuals who were awarded BAS dig scholarships in 2018.

Sep 28 Blog

Second Temple Period Discoveries at Biblical Hebron

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Biblical Hebron, mentioned nearly 100 times in the Hebrew Bible, was a significant ancient city. Recent excavations have uncovered the town from the Second Temple period. Who lived here? Jewish, Edomite or pagan residents?

Dec 11 Blog

2015 Scholarship Recipients Dig into the Biblical World

By: BAS Staff

Straight from the field to you, hear from the individuals who were awarded BAS scholarships in 2015.

Jul 1 Blog

Tel Kabri: The 2015 Season—Weeks 1 and 2

By: Henry Curtis Pelgrift

Tel Kabri participant Henry Curtis Pelgrift describes the first two weeks of excavation of storage rooms associated with the Canaanite palace’s wine cellar, the oldest and largest wine cellar in the ancient Near East.

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