
Recent News - November 2015
- Cops bust antiquities dealer with over 3,000 ancient coins
Times of Israel: November 26, 2015 - Ikea-style flat-pack church that sunk in a shipwreck around 500 AD to be revived
Ancient Origins: November 18, 2015 - Lord's Prayer ad ban does not undermine Christianity
Irish News: November 27, 2015 - Women Studying Torah: Facts On The Ground
Jewish Week: November 24, 2015 - The not-so-virgin birth and the real origins of the Christmas story
Raw Story: November 27, 2015 - 8-year-old 'Indiana Jones' makes First Temple era archaeological find in Beit Shemesh
JPost: November 25, 2015 - Explorer Eric Cline connects an ancient collapse with today’s global disasters
Isthmus: November 25, 2015 - King Tut: The Teen Whose Death Rocked Egypt
NG: November 24, 2015 - Jewish evangelism: Conference spawns reflections
BR Now: November 2015 - Medieval Parchment Mystery Solved
Discovery: November 23, 2015 - Prominent Israeli Archaeologist Yoram Tsafrir Dies
Haaretz: November 23, 2015 - Our Commitment To Syrian Immigrants Comes From Our Roots
Jewish Week: November 23, 2015 - Israeli archaeologists unearth world's oldest domesticated 'ful'
Arutz Sheva: November 23, 2015 - Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay
NYTimes: November 20, 2015 - Bringing the Holy Land to America
Arutz Sheva: November 23, 2015 - 7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female
RD: November 21, 2015 - Jewish Law Was Never Meant to Be Set in Stone
Haaretz: November 23, 2015 - Creationism isn't just an ideology – it's a weapon of political control
Guardian: November 22, 2015 - Jesus, the revised edition: Freshman seminar explores 2,000 years of interpretations
Princeton: November 16, 2015 - Bible, Not Gays, is All the Diversity School Needs, Say Parents
Politicus: November 19, 2015 - Sarah Palin: Jesus wants you to have a gun
Christianity Today: November 20, 2015 - Israeli professor describes autonomy in antiquity, locally controlled synagogues
Jewish Chronicle: November 20, 2015 - How the Bible was used to turn the First World War into a Holy War
Scroll.in: November 17, 2015 - Teutonic College hosts Ratzinger Library Inauguration
Radio Vatican: November 19, 2015 - Religion and Science: The Evolutionary Controversy
Catholic Online: November 18, 2015 - The struggle over the Temple Mount
The Week: November 15, 2105 - Scripture Stories: Religious Right Claims About The ‘Aitken Bible’ Don’t Hold Up
Americans United: November 16, 2015 - Scholar discusses how Bible changed from inaccurate copying
Ithacan: November 17, 2015 - Find of the century in Yavneh sheds light on ancient religious cult in Palestine
Eurek Alert: November 17, 2015 - The origins of the Religions Right: a Q & A with Neil Young
OUP: November 18, 2015 - Ben Carson, Science, and Seventh-day Adventists
Religion and Politics: November 17, 2015 - Does Religion Make Us Worse People?
Huffington Post: November 17, 2015 - I’m Sticking With The Patriarchs: Feminism Isn’t Kosher
Daily Caller: November 16, 2015 - What Daniel meant to the persecuted Egyptians
Telegraph: November 14, 2015 - Women Proclaiming the Word
America: November 16, 2015 - Christians upset as Tennessee bans Bible distribution in schools following complaint
Christianity Today: November 16, 2015 - Sotheby's to Auction Twelve Exceptional Items from the Valmadonna Trust Library
Fine Books: November 16, 2015 - Women Rabbis: Further Questions and Considerations
Times of Israel: November 17, 2015 - Roman and Byzantine-era mosaic discovered in Lod
Jerusalem Post: November 16, 2015 - Wailing at the wrong wall?
Popular Archaeology: November 15, 2015 - Judaism: A Minimum of Six Hours
Arutz Sheva: November 15, 2015 - The mysterious Akra in Jerusalem
Ritmeyer: November 11, 2015 - If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is it a clue to the rise of Jewish Galilee?
Times of Israel: November 13, 2015 - Sotheby's to auction important private library of Hebrew writings, 1189 Bible
Brandon Sun: November 12, 2015 - Wrestling with Paul
Christian Century: November 13, 2015 - Most Americans Believe In The Bible. Fewer Care If Their President Does.
Huffington Post: November 11, 2015 - 'Young earth' creationists making $90m full-scale ark to 'bring the Bible to life'
Guardian: November 12, 2015 - Why God Is Black
Huffington Post: November 12, 2015 - BC Theologian Co-leading Project on the Legacy of Ancient Judaism
BC Chronicle: November 12, 2015 - Did Joseph Build the Great Pyramid at Gezah?
Huffington Post: November 12, 2015 - Fact-Checking Ben Carson’s Pyramid-ism Misses the Point
RD: November 11, 2015 - We won't give up Temple Mount, Israeli rabbis tell Obama
Ynetnews: November 11, 2015 - New Scans Show There Might Be a Hidden Room in King Tut’s Tomb
Smithsonian: November 11, 2015 - 'Stonehenge' of the Golan Heights Fuels Ancient Mystery
Forward: November 11, 2015 - No, Imhotep and Joseph Were Not One and the Same
Haaretz: November 11, 2015 - Recent Ancient Discoveries Under the Western Wall
Breaking Israel News: November 11, 2015 - 'Gods and Scholars' brings religious artifacts to light
Cornell: November 10, 2015 - New Cambridge University project to explore the Bible's role in the First World War
Cambridge: November 11, 2015 - Are Biblical Hermeneutics the New Tower of Babel?
Huffington Post: November 10, 2015 - Rabbis, Academics In New Partnership
Jewish Week: November 11, 2015 - A treasure trove of 'ancient' archaeology tucked away in Gaza
Reuters: November 10, 2015 - Egyptian officials scoff at Carson pyramid claims
Times of Israel: November 10, 2015 - The unlikely Christianity of René Girard
The Week: November 10, 2015 - What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
RD: November 9, 2015 - The olive is life
Hurriyet Daily: November 9, 2015 - Digging for the Holy Land: The politicization of archaeology along the Israel-Palestine border
Brown Political Review: November 6, 2015 - New Light on the Committee Whose Collective Genius Produced the King James Bible
Daily Beast: November 8, 2015 - Michele Bachmann Says “Jesus is Coming Soon” and it’s Time to Convert the Jews
Politicus USA: November 9, 2015 - Carson's theory on pyramids has been around - and wrong - for centuries
OCRegister: November 8, 2015 - Northern Illinois University to Remove Bibles from Guest Rooms Following Atheist Complaint
ChristianNews: November 9, 2015 - King Tut – What We Do and Don’t Know With Marianne Eaton-Krauss [Podcast]
ASOR: November 2015 - Experts dismiss Carson’s pyramids theory
Times of Israel: November 6, 2015 - Archaeologists Find 22 Shipwrecks Off One Greek Archipelago
History: November 4, 2015 - After life: Tomb robbers, magic spells, scraps of papyrus
Australian: November 6, 2015 - What’s Old is New: Innovation Lessons from 1177 B.C.
Innovation Excellence: November 5, 2015 - The Errors of the Militant Atheist
National Review: November 6, 2015 - How do you solve a problem like a maharat?
Times of Israel: November 6, 2015 - Joseph’s Tomb, torched by Palestinians, restored overnight
Times of Israel: November 3, 2015 - The Letter that Changed the NYTimes
NYTimes: November 4, 2015 - Ancient columns unearthed in Laodicia
Hurriyet Daily: November 5, 2015 - Is This Really the Akra?
Bibleplaces: November 4, 2015 - Ben Carson Schools Archaeologists on Who Really Built the Pyramids
NYMagazine: November 5, 2015 - Why All Jews Should Speak Out About Orthodox Ban on Women Rabbis
Forward: November 5, 2015 - Historical Jesus never existed?
Inquisitr: November 5, 2015 - Is This Really the Akra?
Bibleplaces: November 4, 2015 - Religious Rants in the Classroom
Slate: November 2, 2015 - 2,000-year-old fortress unearthed in Jerusalem after century-long search
Times of Israel: November 3, 2015 - How to read the Bible
NC: November 4, 2015 - Learning Leadership From the Bible, Harvard and a Chief Rabbi
Huffington Post: November 3, 2015 - “Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar
Religion Dispatches: November 4, 2015 - The “Other” Lost Scriptures
Aleteia: November 3, 2015 - RCA Bans Female Rabbis, Again; Agudath Goes Further
Jewish WeeK: November 4, 2015 - Gender roles: Baptist university rekindles debate
BRNow: November 2, 2015 - Archaeological find in Jerusalem's City of David may answer ancient mystery
JPost: November 3, 2015 - Bible to undergo carbon test
Hurriyet Daily: November 2, 2015 - Why does he lie?
JPost: November 2, 2015 - Faith Equality Index Debuts, Seven Brands Rise to the Top
Market Watch: November 2, 2015 - Further History-Denialism from Jerry Coyne
James Mcgrath: November 3, 2015 - In Religious Arbitration, Scripture Is the Rule of Law
NYTimes: November 2, 2015 - Was Moses Tripping?
NYTimes: November 3, 2015 - An outbreak of violence in the name of the Messiah
Chicago Tribune: November 2, 2015 - A Psychologist Replays the Trials of Jesus and Paul, and Uncovers Surprising Revelations About Judaism
Algemeiner: November 3, 2015 - Will Jerusalem Violence Kill Egalitarian Prayer Plan for Western Wall?
Forward: October 29, 2015 - Baylor scholar shows ‘Lost Gospels’ not actually lost
Waco Trib: November 2, 2015 - The Da Vinci Code department: Oxford University sets up new unit to investigate religious relics including fragments supposedly from the cross Jesus was crucified on
Daily Mail: November 2, 2015 - Pew study: Most secularists see conflict between religion, science
Tulsa World: November 2, 2015 - Jesus 'not a real person' many believe
BBC: October 31, 2015 - Who’s the Fairest of them all? Feminine Beauty in the Hebrew Bible and Iron Age Ivory Sculpture
ASOR: November 2015 - Obama nemesis Hobby Lobby probed for allegedly buying black market biblical items
Fox News: October 30, 2015 - The Forgotten Egyptologist and First Wave Feminist Who Invented Wicca
Broadly: October 30, 2015 - The Gates of Gath
YU: October 30, 2015 - Western Wall rabbi condemns UNESCO for declaring forefathers' tombs to be Islamic sites
JPost: October 29, 2015
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