One of the few people in the world today who could probably understand Jesus in his mother tongue if he were alive is Yona Sabar, Professor Emeritus of UCLA. Sabar, a native speaker and scholar of Aramaic, has made it his life’s mission to preserve the language Jesus spoke. Read the detailed efforts in his article published in the November/December 2018 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.
In the September/October 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Professor Avi Hurvitz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem argues there are three distinct forms of Biblical Hebrew, each one corresponding to certain parts of the Bible and other ancient texts.
Explore the figure of Lilith in the Bible and mythology in "From Eden to Ednah-Lilith in the Garden," an article by Dan Ben-Amos, Professor of Folklore and Asian Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, featured in the May/June 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.
The second and latest issue of the Biblical Archaeology Society's new special interest publication, Digging Deeper will be made available to the public soon.
Read BAR's exclusive description and photographs of the latest mosaics discovered at the synagogue at Huqoq, by the team led by Professor Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shua Kisilevitz of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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