Jewish Experiences in the Roman Bathhouses of Judaea/Syria Palaestina
February 2024 | Vol. 12.2 By Yaron Z. Eliav A Typical Roman Public Bathhouse. Drawn by Yannis Nakas for the Author. In the first few centuries of the common era, hundreds of thousa
Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Life in the Black Desert
October 2023 | Vol. 11.10 By Yorke M. Rowan The forbidding landscape known as the Black Desert is created by lava flows stretching from southern Syria to northern Saudi Arabia that
Portraits of People and Society From Palmyra
june 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Maura Heyn The funerary portraiture from the city of Palmyra, in the eastern Roman Empire, is a rich and heterogenous display of identity dating to the fir
The Social Context of Writing in Ancient Ugarit
April 2022 | Vol. 10.4 By Philip Boyes We often ask, what is writing? A better question is, who is writing? It is very easy to approach ancient writing as something rather abstract
The (Historical) Origin of God
March 2021 | Vol. 9.3 By Theodore J. Lewis When a historian of Israelite religion talks of the origin of God, she certainly doesn’t mean ontology. Proofs for the existence of God
A Cosmic Impact and the Beginning of Farming at Abu Hureyra in Syria
March 2021 | Vol. 9.3 By Andrew M.T. Moore Towards the end of the last Ice Age a group of hunter-gatherers settled at Abu Hureyra in the Euphrates Valley in what is now Syria. The