Inscriptions and Ostraca: Everyday Writing from Ancient Israel
Long before the Bible was bound in leather, Hebrew was scratched onto potsherds, carved into...
Archaeology & History
The Tel Dan Stele and the House of David
In 1993, excavators at Tel Dan in northern Israel unearthed fragments of a ninth-century BC...
Hesed: The Hebrew Word English Can’t Quite Capture
Translators render the Hebrew word hesed as “lovingkindness,” “steadfast love,” “mercy,” or “covenant loyalty” —...
From Scroll to Codex: How the Bible’s Physical Form Changed
The earliest Scriptures lived on scrolls — unwieldy, single-sided, and read in sequence. Christians were...