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The presepio (“nativity scene”) is a centuries-old craft and one of Naples’s best-known traditions. Photo: Howard Hudson / Wikimedia Commons

Feb 17 Blog

Christmas Stories in Christian Apocrypha

By: Tony Burke

The modern Christmas nativity scene is drawn from apocryphal texts in addition to the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke.

Feb 15 Blog

Too Big for Your Wrist

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Many of our modern timekeeping practices have their roots in ancient Greece and Rome, which is the focus of Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity, a new exhibit at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Dec 11 Blog

John Strugnell (1930–2007)

By: Sidnie White Crawford

John Strugnell, former editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project and Professor of Christian Origins emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on November 30 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass after a brief illness.

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