the five books

By: Jonathan Klawans

Many assume that Jesus' Last Supper was a Seder, the ritual Passover meal. Examine evidence from the synoptic Gospels with scholar Jonathan Klawans.

By: BAS Staff

The Book of Exodus describes ten Egyptian plagues that bring suffering to the land of pharaoh. Are these Biblical plagues plausible on any level?

By: Adele Berlin

According to Adele Berlin, the Book of Ruth illuminates the main theme of the Hebrew Bible: the continuity of God’s people in their land.

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died on July 2, 2016. Read an interview BAR Editor Hershel Shanks conducted with Wiesel and Biblical scholar Frank Moore Cross, republished from BAR, July/August 2004.

By: Noah Wiener

Italian scholar Mauro Perani dated a Sefer Torah scroll from the University of Bologna Library to the 12–13th centuries C.E., making the manuscript the world’s oldest extant Sefer Torah

By: Harvey Minkoff

Isaiah's vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6). But does this beloved image of the Peaceable Kingdom contain a mistranslation?

By: Harvey Minkoff

Isaiah's vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible. Does this beloved image of the Peaceable Kingdom contain a mistranslation?

By: Reviewed by Jane Cahill West

Ahron Horovitz’s book on the City of David, reviewed here by Jane Cahill West, covers Jerusalem history with lavish illustrations and summaries of archaeological debates about ancient Jerusalem history.

By: Reviewed by Alan Millard

Alan Millard reviews "Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible" by Karel van der Toorn.

By: Reviewed by Leonard Greenspoon

Leonard J. Greenspoon Reviews "The Book of Genesis Illustrated" by R. Crumb