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Robert J. Bull Drew University While at Jacob’s Well and during the course of an argument with Jesus about the proper place to worship God, a Samaritan woman exclaimed, “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,” and thereby directed attention to Mt. Gerizim. It has been assumed that she was referring to the mountain in general … Continue reading “AN
ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING JOHN 4:20”

Avraham Biran [Professor Avraham Biran, formerly Director of the Israel Department of Antiquities, is now Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem.] I have often wondered why the Bible speaks with such vehemence of the “sins of Jeroboam.” True, setting up the golden calf … Continue reading “CITY
OF THE GOLDEN CALF”

Paul W. Wallace [Paul W. Wallace, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Greek Archaeology at the State University of New York at Albany and Associate Editor of Bible and Spade. In addition to his teaching and editorial experience, Dr. Wallace has traveled widely in Turkey, giving him a personal knowledge of the sites he is describing … Continue reading “JOURNEY
BY LAMPLIGHT
A VISIT TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA — PART 2”

Paul W. Wallace Introduction An ancient city had a personality of its own. It was a living being with an infancy, a youth, a maturity, and an old age. It was born, and it could die. An ancient city gradually acquired a reputation. It became known for a certain type of behavior; its response to … Continue reading “A
JOURNEY BY LAMPLIGHT
A VISIT TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA — PART I”

“And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.” So begins the intriguing account in 1 Kings 10 of the visit of an unnamed queen from the mysterious land of Sheba to Solomon, king of Israel. Solomon was … Continue reading “THE
LAND OF SHEBA”

Agency France-Presse Rome, Feb. 9 — An Italian archaeologist flew to Iraq today to start to rebuild ancient Babylon and the Tower of Babel. Archaeologist Giorgio Gullini has been entrusted by the Iraqi government with the task of breathing life back into 30 centuries of civilization that existed in a city covering 21 square miles, … Continue reading “FROM
IRAQ
IRAQ SET TO REBUILD THE TOWER OF BABEL”

Is it true that space scientists at NASA have confirmed Joshua’s missing day with their computers? BSP 4:2-3 (Spring—Summer 1975) p. 83 The story concerning NASA computors and Joshua’s missing day originated with Harold Hill, an industrialist from Baltimore who gives lectures on science and the Bible. It was first published in October 1969 in … Continue reading “YOUR
QUESTIONS ANSWERED”

Knowledge of architecture in the biblical period has been limited both by the lack of information on architectural details in the ancient records and by the infrequent survival of the buildings themselves as the passage of the centuries and the activities of succeeding generations of builders contributed to their eventual destruction. Of those buildings which … Continue reading “CITIES
IN BIBLE TIMES”

Raymond L. Cox [Raymond L. Cox, a frequent contributor to BIBLE AND SPADE, is pastor of the Salem, Oregon Foursquare Church. He has traveled extensively in Bible lands and has written over 1650 articles on biblical and archaeological subjects. In addition, he is the author of four books.] Why did Paul walk to Assos from … Continue reading “AFOOT
TO ASSOS”

In November of 1974 Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar found a gold ring made 500 years after the death of Christ which depicts the site of the Holy Sepulchre. It was unearthed in the ruins of a sixth-century building in excavations south of the Temple Mount. The ring is made of gold and has a domed … Continue reading “JERUSALEM
REPORT:
1400 YEAR OLD RING FOUND DEPICTING THE HOLY SEPULCHRE”