Bible History Daily

By: Lauren K. McCormick

Few images capture the Roman world more vividly than the clash of gladiators in the arena. These spectacles drew enormous crowds across the empire and […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Editor’s Note: This blog article contains images of human skeletal remains. Excavations near Jerusalem’s Old City have revealed the first known archaeological example of a […]

By: Robin Gallaher Branch

Deborah, the only female judge in the Bible, excelled in multiple areas. She served ancient Israel as a prophet, judge, military leader, songwriter, and minstrel.

By: Megan Sauter

How was the first woman created in Genesis 2? Was she made from the man’s rib or, as recently suggested in BAR, from his os baculum?

By: Lauren K. McCormick

Textiles play an important role in the world of the Bible. From the finely crafted garments described in the book of Exodus to the special […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Although remembered in the Bible as one of Judah’s most pious rulers, King Josiah met a rather untimely death, slain at Megiddo by Pharaoh Necho […]

By: Ben Witherington III

Who was the first person to truly recognize Jesus as the messiah and understand the implications? Biblical scholar Ben Witherington III takes a close look at the account given in Luke, and sheds some light on what the Biblical narrative has to say about who was the first to recognize Jesus as the messiah.

By: Robin Gallaher Branch

Biblical studies scholar Robin Gallaher Branch explores Luke’s depiction of a woman set on doing good for the poor and serving her friends, the widows, for whom she makes robes and clothing.

By: Marek Dospěl

What were early synagogues like? Traditional scholarship has answered this simple question with studies of the built structures, analyzing their architecture and examining evidence of […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

While carrying out excavations at the archaeological site of Pompeii in Italy, archaeologists uncovered a large banqueting room painted with a nearly life-size frieze of […]