‘Departure for Canaan,’ a detail of a 13th-century mosaic from the dome of Abraham in St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice.
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The Bible is full of stories about migrants. That doesn’t mean it has a simple takeaway message about them.
Samaritans celebrate Shavuot atop Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank.
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Samaritans still live in Israel, where they are often caught between Israeli and Palestinian identities.
The Shrine of the Holy Nativity, Bethlehem, 1849.
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Recent archaeological studies suggest that early Christians were identifying important sites as little as a century after the last of the gospels.
A fragment of scroll from the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, under microspectral imagery.
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What do you do when you find something amazing you didn’t expect, and there is no budget in your grant to investigate it?
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We may imagine Jesus in long robes with baggy sleeves, but this is far from how he would have dressed.
Noah’s Ark – a biblical story of genocide.
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We still live in a violent world – and the Bible can help children understand it.