Beneath an otherwise seemingly obvious biblical passage lies a much more sinister meaning, as revealed by archaeology.

The archaeological story of two often overlooked biblical civilizations

How ancient is the Bible, anyway? Which is more correct: traditional dating or revised, late scholarly dating?

The Bible reveals a surprising amount of detail about the universe, as well as mankind’s remarkable—yet misguided—attempts to understand it.

The one biblical book suspiciously missing from this massive corpus of scriptural manuscripts—or is it?

The biblical record has a lot to say about the ancient city of Shechem—and so does archaeology.

So goes a recent claim. If only the biblical authors had remembered to cite their sources … or did they?

Is the conventional wisdom correct, that we (via Greece) received it from the neighboring Phoenicians—or was it the Israelites? (Part 2)

What artifacts show us about the city—before it became the capital of Israel

How ancient is the Bible, anyway? Which is more correct: traditional dating or revised, late scholarly dating?

What archaeology and classical history have to say about a detestable practice the Bible describes in the heart of Jerusalem

Getting to know Africa’s great empire through the pages of the Bible and archaeology

An Egyptian history far younger than chronologists said? Here’s the decades-old dating battle you probably haven’t heard of, over Egypt’s earliest history.

Biblical clues into the fate of early Crete

How archaeological discoveries from an impressive border fortress compare to biblical history.

An alternative theory to the Documentary Hypothesis, relating to the earliest composition of the Bible

What to make of Ron Wyatt’s claimed discovery?

A recent documentary Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle compares a ‘scientific’ Bitter Lakes crossing theory with a ‘biblical’ Gulf of Aqaba crossing theory. But how biblical—or scientific—is either? Where did the Red Sea crossing take place?

How biblical authors used birds for some soaring symbolism

Get to know the artifacts that call the University of Oxford home.

They may not refer to specific biblical individuals—but even generic names help authenticate the account.

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