A team has been excavating the so-called “Cave 12” at Qumran and a statement of their latest work will be released soon.
One of the last unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls has been deciphered using high-tech imagery to put together a puzzle of 60 tiny scroll fragments.
The Times of Israel has more on the depiction of the birth of Athena on the potsherd from et-Tell.
Moshe Gilad, in a lengthy and well-illustrated article at Haaretz, asks why Qasr el-Yahud, the traditional place of Jesus’s baptism, is still mined and booby-trapped seven years after the site opened to tourists.
A conference on the Archaeology of the Dead Sea Region will be held next month at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz in preparation for an exhibition on “Life at the Dead Sea” in the fall of 2019.
In a journal article for NEASB, Brian Peterson considers whether a ram’s head discovered at Khirbet el-Maqatir provides evidence for the Israelite conquest of Ai.
New images of mosaics discovered at the Huqoq synagogue will be displayed for the first time in a lecture at the University of Chester in the UK.
Carl Rasmussen shares photos of reliefs that illustrate the “dogs eating the crumbs” that fall from the table.
Leen Ritmeyer discusses the importance of the Trumpeting Stone discovered below the Temple
Mount and shares some photos from its original discovery.
Wayne Stiles explains why the Lord took his people to Mount Sinai before the Promised Land.
Kenneth Seeskin explains why the Hebrew Bible is so easy/difficult to interpret.
The Caspari Center is running a course on “Discovering Jesus in His Jewish Context” in April and May of this year.
Les and Kathy Bruce of Biblical Byways are leading a tour to Turkey and Greece in May and June.
Elisha Qimron has been awarded the Israel Prize for his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The ESV Archaeology Study Bible is coming in March, and you can read about the editors and their approach.
Appian Media has released a trailer for their next big project: Searching for a King. Filming will begin this summer.
HT: Joseph Lauer, Agade, Charles Savelle
