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side by side images of gladiator etching on wall and a modern tracing. Courtesy Louis Autin, Marie-Adeline Le Guennec, and Éloïse Letellier-Taillefer
Mar 9
Gladiators, Graffiti, and Martyrs

By: Lauren K. McCormick

Mar 9
The Nun of the Rings

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Deborah in stained glass by Chagall
Mar 8
Deborah in the Bible

By: Robin Gallaher Branch

daphne-mosaic
Mar 7
The Creation of Woman in the Bible

By: Megan Sauter

Microscope image of blue fabric (Tx1) found at Bronze Age Beycesultan in western Turkey. Courtesy Çiğdem Maner, Eşref Abay, Recep Karadağ, Emine Torgan Güzel, “Untwisting Beycesultan Höyük: The Earliest Evidence for Nålbinding and Indigo-dyed Textiles in Anatolia” Antiquity 99 (2024), CC BY 4.0.
Mar 6
Blue Threads of the Bronze Age

By: Lauren K. McCormick

Aerial view of Tel Megiddo. AVRAM GRAICER, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mar 6
Necho and Josiah at Megiddo

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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Scholar’s Study

Giotto adoration of the magi
Herod’s Death, Jesus’ Birth and a Lunar Eclipse

Read letters published in the Q&C section of BAR debating the dates of Herod’s death, Jesus’ birth and to which lunar eclipse Josephus was referring.

Nag Hammadi Codex
Nag Hammadi Codices

The Nag Hammadi Codices are a group of papyrus manuscripts discovered near the city of Nag Hammadi in southern Egypt, about 70 miles north of […]

Abraham's Angels
Wordplay in Genesis

It is no secret to students of the Bible that the ancient Hebrews loved plays on words. And nowhere in the Hebrew Bible are there […]

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OnSite

Apr. 2
OnSite: The Via Dolorosa

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

According to many Christian traditions, the Via Dolorosa (Latin for the “Way of Suffering”) marks the processional route taken by Jesus of Nazareth on his […]

Top Discoveries 2024
Feb. 24
Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries of 2024

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

11-2.-Beta-Giyorgis
Oct. 15
The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

By: Megan Sauter

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Reviews

Book cover: 'John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptizer' by James F. McGrath. Jan. 28
The Quest for John the Baptist

By: Zeba Crook

John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptizer By James F. McGrath (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024), 486 pp., $59.99 (hardcover and […]

Book cover for 'Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls' By Andrew Perrin
Dec. 1
Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Abigail Naidu

Nov. 28
Review: The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity

By: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

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