The Holy Land Studies Blog

This is a wonderful blog. It is accurate with respect to the Jewish Studies and sympathetic both to self-identified Jews and Christians. I highly recommend it.

– Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California at Berkeley

What Does The Bible Say About Sports?

The recently retired US marathoner Ryan Hall is very outspoken about his faith. In numerous interviews, he speaks very publicly about how his Christian faith has been instrumental in guiding his running…

Five Places Where Samson Walked

Of all the nations that have a bad rap in Western civilization, perhaps none has a more unfavorable reputation than the Philistines. In modern English, we use the term “Philistine” to refer to a…

What Did The Israelite Slaves Build In Egypt?

Let’s Take Five #2. Many of us make a very common historical error when reading the Bible. We open up the first few chapters of the Book of Exodus and read about the…

Herod The Great – Let’s Take Five: A New Series

In the next few blog posts, I will be doing something a bit different than I have in the past. Rather than addressing a Scriptural question about geography as I typically have, my…

Where Did Jesus Eat The Last Supper?

The Christian ritual of receiving bread and wine observed by billions around the world has many different names: holy communion, the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, to name a few. Despite contemporary denominational differences, the…

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