December 2019
Vol. 7, No. 12
What Did Jesus Look Like?
By Joan E. Taylor
We all know what Jesus looked like, with long hair, a beard, and long robes. But what if that image is a Byzantine era mash-up of Zeus and a Greek philosopher? Unraveling what Jesus really looked like yields a very different picture. Read More
Israelite and Judahite Ambassadors to Assyria
By Shawn Zelig Aster
In antiquity, as today, ambassadors were the representatives of their states in foreign lands. But whose interests did ambassadors who traveled from small states to terrifying empires really represent? Read More
The Amman Theatre Statue and the Ammonite Royal Ancestor Cult
By Joel S. Burnett and Romel Gharib
Iron Age statues are rare in the Southern Levant. So why are there so many examples from Amman, and are they of kings or gods? Read More
Scattered Finds
By Alice Stevenson
Museum labels describe objects but only tell part of their stories. Just how did ancient Near Eastern artifacts move to Britain and beyond? Read More