Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

But Goliath wasn’t the only biblical reference to giants.

In an article in Biblical Archaeology Review Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist associated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced the discovery of a clay seal that appears to bear the name of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / The School of Archaeology at Veritas International University (VIU) is pleased to present the International Symposium on Archaeology & the Bible ...

“We believe that St. Joseph was a carpenter. But that’s not exactly what the Gospels tell us. They tell us that he was a tekton, a house builder or construction worker. Keep in mind that timber is ...

(RNS) — As founder of the Biblical Archaeology Review, Shanks helped bridge academic scholarship with the lay public’s appetite for answers to questions about key archaeological and historical events ...

The survey is an ongoing project by the IAA meant to protect archaeological sites in the Judean Desert from looting and ...

Hershel Shanks battled top scholars to make the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public. Hershel Shanks, the founder and longtime editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, died on Friday at the age of ...

Quick! Tell me about the three top stories in the most recent copy of the Journal of Biblical Archaeology? And thereby hangs a tale. The reason you and I don’t know anything about biblical archaeology ...

TEL AVIV - A leading archaeology journal has effectively barred submissions by Israelis on Judea and Samaria unless they "have cooperated with the relevant Palestinian authorities," in what analysts ...