We know what ‘Abraham’ means—Genesis 17:5 tells us. Right? Trouble is, it doesn’t really make sense—in Hebrew, that is. Why not?

The visiting Hebrew University professor addresses Armstrong College students at our campus headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma.

It’s a common charge, that the presence of Aramaic in certain biblical texts is “proof” of late authorship. But with the book of Jonah, it’s rather more nuanced …

And a new tool in biblical archaeology: archaeomagnetism

The slab fragment might not be much to look at. But even in fragmentary form, it shows that Judah’s kings also had ‘monumental’-style inscriptions …

The much-debated genealogy in Ruth 4:18-22 can be somewhat of a headache for Bible scholars. Is it necessarily so?

A claim of ‘major discrepancy.’ But how major—or discrepant—is it?

Once again, studies show that the United Monarchy of David and Solomon was an industrial powerhouse.

Another pillar of the late-Exodus theory, ably contested and defended. But there is more than meets the eye …

Bible translations and commentaries mis-transliterated it—then wondered why they couldn’t understand it. Enter the “dean of biblical archaeologists” ….

Shlomo, Rivkah, Shimshon—the English language has done a real number on the names of these famous biblical characters (and many more).

Renaissance Italy, dueling mathematicians, and a peculiar account of the Bible’s “wisest” men

It’s a peculiar ‘love fest’ numbered among the ‘Christian’ holidays. But its real origin is much earlier than the third-century ‘St. Valentine.’

And other peculiarities about this unusual king of ‘abominations’