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Recent News - May 2012
- Bilingual Boundary Stone Discovered at Tel Gezer
Jewish Press: May 31, 2012 - Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night
SFGate: May 31, 2012 - Rewriting history
JPost: May 31, 2012 - May a Jew enter a non-Jewish house of worship?
JPost: May 31, 2012 - The Book of Daniel: Is It Really About Diet?
Time: May 31, 2012 - Archaeology without conquest
Haaretz: May 30, 2012 - 1,600-year-old mosaic at Israeli synagogue damaged
Kansas City: May 29, 2012 - Bible Scholar Accuses Piers Morgan Of Promoting Bigotry
Market Watch: May 29, 2012 - Passion For Learning
GPB: May 30, 2012 - How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
Guardian: May 30, 2012 - Sites and Insights: Upper Room and David’s Tomb
JPost: May 28, 2012 - Hebrew Inscription Provides Oldest Archaeological Evidence of Jews in Iberia
Jewish Press: May 29, 2012 - Judge to decide fate of ossuary, Jehoash tablet
JPost: May 29, 2012 - Mideast Antiques Roadshow
Tablet: May 29, 2012 - Aramaic: Efforts To Revive Jesus' Language In Christian Villages Beit Jala, Jish In Holy Land, Sweden
Huffington Post: May 28, 2012 - Seized from smugglers, the leather-bound ‘gospel’ which Iran claims will bring down Christianity and shake world politics
Daily Mail: May 25, 2012 - May 25, 1925 | Tennessee Teacher Is Indicted for Evolution Lessons
NYTimes: May 25, 2012 - Debunking the Jesus Debunkers
NYTimes: May 25, 2012 - A Convert’s Bible Stories
Tablet: May 23, 2012 - New Arabic Translation of Talmud Promotes Anti-Semitic Narratives
Access: May 21, 2012 - Ancient shard offers archaeology’s first mention of Bethlehem
Times of Israel: May 23, 2012 - Discovery Proves Bethlehem Part of Kingdom of Judah
Arutz Sheva: May 23, 2012 - What Is the Chief Political Concern of the Bible?
Huffington Post: May 23, 2012 - Catacomb Christianity and Cathedral Christianity
Christian Post: May 23, 2012 - Ethiopian chief rabbi welcomes Torah’s translation
JPost: May 23, 2012 - It’s Not Just Porn: Why Ultra-Orthodox Jews Fear the Internet
Atlantic: May 23, 2012 - Controversial dig
Christian Century: May 21, 2012 - Unique gold earring found in intriguing collection of ancient jewelry in Israel
PHYS ORG: May 22, 2012 - What Biblical Scholars Do (since you were likely losing sleep about it)
Patheos: May 22, 2012 - Borderline Views: Hebrew and the language of science
JPost: May 21, 2012 - Jesus: Father, Husband, Family Man
Forward: May 22, 2012 - Huge Canaanite Jewelry Hoard Unearthed in Megiddo
MidEast News Source: May 21, 2012 - 43rd Day of the Omer: Jerusalem -- The Heart of the World
Huffington Post: May 21, 2012 - Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove’s free Bible plan
Guardian: May 19, 2012 - Walter Wink, Theologian and Author, Dies at 76
NYTimes: May 19, 2012 - A Jewish Messiah
Times Colonists: May 20, 2012 - Conventional view of heaven doubted
STL Today: May 19, 2012 - Initial Thoughts in a New Book Defending Evangelical Biblical Scholarship
Patheos: May 17, 2012 - The Human Spirit
JPost: May 17, 2012 - N.T. Wright Asks: Have Christians Gotten Heaven All Wrong?
Huffington Post: May 17, 2012 - Catholics must accept Vatican II, including on Judaism, cardinal says
Catholic News: May 17, 2012 - Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavations Find Evidence Of Solomon’s Temple, Archaeologists Say
Huffington Post: May 11, 2012 - Lack of shade makes Western Wall visit unbearable for tourists
Haaretz: May 13, 2012 - Hunting the Whale
Forward: May 14, 2012 - Judging THE Book By Its Cover
Huffington Post: May 14, 2012 - Dr. Jim Charlesworth on Talpiot Tomb B
Patheos: May 14, 2012 - David Jeselsohn, of “Gabriel’s Vision” Fame, Writes in Defense of Robert Deutsch
Jim West Blog: May 11, 2012 - Faith According to the Bible(s)
Huffington Post: May 11, 2012 - Rabbi Shmuley walks on forbidden waters
Times of Israel: May 10, 2012 - Shrine Discovery in Judah May Confirm, Clarify Biblical Descriptions
Christian Post: May 10, 2012 - Four years on the trail of the codex
Times of Israel: May 10, 2012 - Dead Sea Scrolls come to the Franklin Institute
Philly: May 10, 2012 - Ron Brown and Me: How Old Time Religion Motivates a Coach’s Crusade and My Campaign Against It
Huffington Post: May 9, 2012 - Archaeological find stirs debate on David’s kingdom
Haaretz: May 9, 2012 - Ancient tomb meets modern courtroom
JPost: May 9, 2012 - Hebrew U discovery reshapes understanding of Temple
JPost: May 8, 2012 - 3,000-year-old artifacts fuel Biblical archaeology debate
Times Of Israel: May 8, 2012 - A Polite Bribe: Paul’s Final Journey to Jerusalem
Huffington Post: May 7, 2012 - Academic Freedom and Evangelical Seminaries
Patheos: May 7, 2012 - The Hebrew University Archaeology News Distribution List
Jim West Blog: May 7, 2012 - Acronyms and the Bible
Forward: May 7, 2012 - DNA links prove Jews are a “race,” says genetics expert
Haaretz: May 7, 2012 - 'Women of the Wall’ movement fights Israeli gender bias
Republic: May 4, 2012 - Evolution and the Problem of Biblical Mythology
Forbes: May 2, 2012 - Confessions of a religious anarchist in Israel
Haaretz: May 3, 2012 - Arctic Christians get first complete Inuit Bible
Washington Post: May 2, 2012 - My Take: Dear God: How to pray on National Day of Prayer?
CNN: May 3, 2012 - Off the Beaten Track: Exploring Tel Yokneam
JPost: May 3, 2012 - Is Wall Street Meeting God’s Expectations?
WSJ: May 3, 2012 - Syria’s cultural treasures latest uprising victim
Daily Star: May 2, 2012 - Bible translator criticized over word substitution
Fosters: May 2, 2012 - Hebrew seal bearing the name “Matanyahu” uncovered in Jerusalem
MFA: May 1, 2012 - A faith-based budget lesson for Paul Ryan
Chicago Tribune: June 1, 2012 - Bible translator criticized over word substitution
KTNV: April 29, 2012 - Book of Revelation, Bible’s nightmarish finale, put in scriptures by mistake: author
National Post: April 27, 2012
