Eerdmans, 280 pages, $25. Both Jews and Christians, brought up in their respective religious traditions, might be surprised by the title of this new book by William Dever, a veteran Near Eastern ...

Researchers from the UK’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequenced the genomes of five 4,000-year-old Canaanites, as well as 99 people now residing in Lebanon and have provided convincing evidence ...

It is now 70 years since the University of Pennsylvania sent out the first American archaeological expedition to the Near East. Since that day American scholars have played a prominent role in ...

The ruins of an ancient blade factory unearthed in Israel may offer the clearest evidence yet of the Canaanites, a people long described in the Bible. Archaeologists in Kiryat Gat, about 40 miles ...

With the end of the war and the recently signed agreement, the far Right’s dream of resettling Gaza has evaporated. But was it really based on anything historical? More broadly speaking, what were the ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

Chapter 6 I was wrong. I have heard Deuteronomy in the synagogue before. In fact, I’ve heard Deuteronomy every time I’ve ever been to synagogue. That’s because, as I discovered today, the Shema—the ...

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Moses died around 1250 BC (which date I accept). According to the Bible, Joshua took over as his successor and as military leader of the Israelites. And it’s ...

There paradoxically are countries that are ‘free’ to attack others and to break international law with impunity. These include the United States and Israel, countries that are immune to criticism for ...

Chapter 13 and Chapter 14 At this turbulent moment, as Israel dispatches special-ops troops into Lebanon to hunt down Hezbollah positions, it’s fitting that I’m reading Chapter 13, the story of ...