The Biblia Hebraica Blog

Something really really big that has finally and totally proven the historical reliability of the Bible has once more been found. But fi...

I'm a little behind on announcements and other blog updates, but here are some notices I received about scholarships or volunteer opport...

As I sit here in WI reading the many blog, Facebook, and Twitter updates from the 2010 Great Bible Scholar Gathering in Atlanta (also known ...

I've spent quite a bit of time over the past year with Seth Sander's insightful book, The Invention of Hebrew . (See earlier post h...

In a move that has DSS dilettantes everywhere bursting with excitement, the Israel Antiquities Authority has announced a partnership with G...

Back in 2008, I wrote a post dealing with the issue of whether the New Testament references to Old Testament characters can be taken as evi...

Michael Wise Michael Wise, master of ancient languages and my first Hebrew and Latin teacher, was interviewed by The Catholic Spirit ab...

After a blogging vacation of 11 days (an eternity for Ancient Hebrew Poetry but due to his move, no doubt), John Hobbins has returned to th...

The understatement of the day comes from National Geographic News  in an article about their upcoming documentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls. I...

I'm a bit late on this news that broke while I was on vacation, but apparently the big archaeological news of the week was the discovery...

John J. Collins Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wm. B. Eerdmans , 2010 A few months ago ,...

I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Last week...

The Yehimilk inscription dating to the mid-tenth century B.C.E. was discovered in 1929. It consists of seven lines of text inscribed over th...

After refreshing my amateur paleography skills by revisiting the Gezer Calendar and the Siloam Tunnel inscriptions, I thought I'd hav...

Very rarely does archeological evidence connect closely with the biblical account. This inscription (if one accepts the dating) may be one o...

In my previous post on the Gezer Calendar inscription, I didn’t go into too much detail about the script in which it was written. That’s be...

The Gezer Calendar is a Hebrew inscription on limestone found at excavations at Gezer in 1908 by R.A.S. Macalister. (Technically, a visitor ...

My two year blog anniversary came and went a month ago. In recognition of that event, I’m posting links to some favorite posts from 2009. Th...

A study has been released claiming to debunk the millennia-old belief that the citizens of ancient Carthage regularly sacrificed their chil...

Now it's always nice to have lots of media attention aimed at archaeological excavations because it raises public awareness of the kind ...