Reviews

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 […]

By: Abigail Naidu

Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls By Andrew Perrin (Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2025), 348 pp., 66 figs. (color & b/w photos, […]

By: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity By Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debié, trans. by Jeffrey Haines (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, […]

By: Jonathan Redding

The Book of Esther Word for Word Bible Comic series (Bristol, United Kingdom: Word for Word Bible Comics, 2024), i–ix + 84 pp. Acts of […]

By: Shimon Gibson

Jerusalem Through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades By Jodi Magness (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2024), x + 614 pp., 157 b/w […]

By: Donald Kane

The Boomer Archaeologist: A Graphic Memoir of Tribes, Identity, and the Holy Land By Thomas Evan Levy, illustrated by Lily Almeida (Sheffield: Equinox, 2025), 408 […]

By: James W. Barker

Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times By Joan Taylor (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2025), xvi + 340 pp., 16 color plates, 12 […]

By: Matthew J. Grey

Excavating the Land of Jesus How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels By James Riley Strange (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2023), 192 pp., 29 […]

By: Konstantinos Politis

Mount Machaerus An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan By Győző Vörös (Amman: The […]

By: James Riley Strange

Ancient Synagogues Revealed 1981–2022 Edited by Lee I. Levine, Zeev Weiss, and Uzi Leibner (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, The Institute of Archaeology – The Hebrew […]