Leen Ritmeyer comments on the report that the stone floor inside the Dome of the Rock is being removed. The Temple Mount Sifting Project posts a recent photo with a note that more details will be posted soon.
A shrine from the 30th Dynasty Pharaoh Nectanebo I was recently discovered in Cairo.
The Shroud of Turin goes back on display tomorrow for the first time since 2010.
ISIS has released video showing its destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.
Accordance Bible Software has just released two significant works from Carta on inscriptions related to the Bible: The Raging Torrent: Historical Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to
Ancient Israel, by Mordechai Cogan and Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period, by Shmuel Ahituv. Both are on sale for a few more days.
Ferrell Jenkins shares a series of photos that illustrate the story of Jesus and his disciples passing through the grain fields on the Sabbath.
A 2009 lecture by Geza Vermes on the Dead Sea Scrolls is now online.
The new ESV Bible app was designed to be the most beautiful and intuitive Bible app currently
available (for iOS only). Mark Hoffman provides a survey of many available for Android and the
iPhone.
HT: Agade, Ted Weis
