Bible Reference

Wander through the Near East in Carta’s Concise Bible Atlas, compiled by a world-famous team of cartographers. This Bible atlas features 33 maps an...

What would Jesus have witnessed, experienced, and felt as a boy growing up in first-century Galilee? Jesus lived at a time of deep social disturba...

The Bible History Atlas, intended for young readers, tells the full story of the Bible from Genesis to Acts with the addition of beautiful watercol...

Exodus records that the waters of the Red Sea (or Reed Sea) opened up to deliver Israel and plummeted down to destroy their Egyptian pursuers. But ...

The ancient boat from the Sea of Galilee exhibited at the Yigal Allon Museum at Kibbutz Ginosar speaks of pivotal times on the lake two millennia a...

In the book of Amos the language about land is used extensively, including terms and ideas such as Zion, YHWH's bringing of Israel into the land, r...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the...

Today at the Holy Places Jesus is waiting for us to have a new encounter with Him, the living Lord, who is present in our midst…Today Jesus yearns ...

Designed for the Christian visitor to Israel, this guide is invaluable as a record of Christian influence on the landscape of Israel. Its ten itine...

Since their discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have become an icon in popular culture that transcends their status as ancient Jewish manuscrip...

The Bible and Archaeology  is a brief, popular (but very informed and up-to-date) introduction on the relationship between the Bible and archaeolog...

The Bible tells the story of God meeting real people in a real time and place, yet we rarely wonder, Why there? Maybe we have a hard time even pict...

From the First Temple period through to the time of Jesus, this Atlas graphically illustrates the colorful history of the city through maps, drawin...

Teaching History & Historical Geography of Bible Lands encompasses a lifetime of academic achievement and teaching. Anson F. Rainey, M.Th., Ph....

Studying the New Testament through Inscriptions is an intuitive introduction to inscriptions from the Greco-Roman world. Inscriptions can help cont...

This important volume focuses on the contribution of excavated material to the interpretation of biblical texts. Here, both practicing archaelogist...

This volume contains seven Aramaic manuscripts of a Jewish pseudepigraphic tradition from the Second Temple period that ascribes to Enoch, the bibl...

"The Dead Sea Scrolls are undoubtedly the most important discovery found in Israel in the field of the Bible and history of Judaism and Christianit...

A 10-Week Study on the Book of Judges for Women The book of Judges has all the elements of a cinematic blockbuster film—murder, violence, lust, and...

The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God’s Word. These 12-week studies lead partic...

A 10-Week Study of the Book of Job, Great for Women’s Groups From Job’s beginnings as a wealthy, God-honoring family man, through his time of inten...

The Holman Illustrated Guide to Biblical Geography includes more than 200 images and over 50 maps to provide a coherent and meaningful set of pegs ...

Bringing the Bible and ancient Israel into a new and brighter light.In the last twenty years, archaeological evidence has dramatically illuminated ...

A 10-Week Study of the Book of Habakkuk, Great for Women’s Groups Though only three chapters long, the Old Testament book of Habakkuk overflows wit...

Examine the Evidence Surrounding Jesus No other figure has impacted history like Jesus. Yet today, he’s often seen as a mythical character whose le...

Archaeology is like looking through a window into the past. By uncovering the remains of buildings and household bits and pieces of previous civili...

Why are Bible translations so different from each other in places? Don’t Bible translators know whether it was peacocks or baboons that King Solomo...

The Ark of the Covenant in Its Egyptian Context: An Illustrated Journey invites readers on a journey of discovery that will change the way they vie...

Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific O...

If you found yourself walking through ancient Israel with Jesus by your side, what might prompt a conversation?   An oasis in the distance. A pastu...

A historical survey of the relationship between archaeology and biblical studies in the first archaeological excavations in Palestine at Tell el-He...