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Aug 8 Blog

Byzantine Jewelry and Other Precious Finds Uncovered in Ancient Dump

By: Noah Wiener

Excavations in an agricultural area near Apollonia-Arsuf uncovered a cache of gold Byzantine jewelry, 400 coins, 200 Samaritan lamps, an inscribed ring and other precious finds in an unlikely location—Byzantine trash pits.

Jul 6 Blog

Searching for the Better Text

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?

Searching for the Better Text

Jun 21 Blog

Searching for the Better Text

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?

Nov 19 Blog

Alan D. Crown (1932–2010)

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Alan D. Crown, emeritus professor of Semitic studies at the University of Sydney (Australia), where he also earned his Ph.D., died last November after suffering a stroke. He was 78. Crown was a renowned scholar of Samaritan studies. His work made him one of the foremost experts on the Abisha Scroll, a copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch that was supposedly penned by Aaron's great-grandson Abisha, and he received a grant to produce a critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

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