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Biblical history

SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
6/29/2021

A Scholarly Screw-Up of Biblical Proportions

by Ariel Sabar

The author of a book on the high-profile forgery of papyrus fragments indicating Jesus had a wife discusses how an article based on those fraudulent documents passed peer review.

SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2021

Israel Reveals Newly Discovered Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls

These are the first new parchment fragments unearthed in Judea in 60 years.

SOURCE: Discover
11/29/2020

The Complicated History of Religion and Archaeology

Modern archaeology has largely succeeded in instituting professionalization and historical rigor to the study of sites of theological significance, but the discipline has a long and continuing historical entanglement with efforts to find proof of religious doctrines.