The archaeological evidence for the battles of the judges

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It’s a key pillar to the late-date Exodus theory. Does it stand up to scrutiny?

How was the world’s strongest army defeated in six weeks?

An inside look at the renowned museum’s greatest treasures

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.

This exciting field of scientific study has bright days ahead, but only if we get back to using biblical history.

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

The revival of Hebrew as a spoken language has been given supernatural terms like ‘resurrection’ and ‘miracle,’ but how ‘scientific’ was it?

An archaeological journey from Solomon and back again

Textual critics claim the Song of Songs is a late composition, certainly not the 10th-century b.c.e. product of King Solomon. They are wrong, says Prof. Gabriel Barkay.

Investigating the people Israel encountered in the Promised Land

‘That bitter and hasty nation’

Perspective from the late Dr. Herman Hoeh, an employee of our namesake—one of the theory’s most ardent early supporters

A series of peculiar stone etchings and monuments found in southern Israel that appear to parallel the Exodus account.

A peculiar biblical personality and a peculiar Egyptian princess

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

The semantic debate about using b.c./a.d. or b.c.e./c.e. Here’s why we use the form that we do for our website.

What a mysterious gray Egyptian artifact in a German museum has to say about Israel’s(?) early history

Only one biblical book is missing from the massive corpus of manuscripts. Or is it?