CEB Study Bible

Coming soon:

Due out later this year, the CEB Study Bible will come in a number of different cover options including hardcover, deco-tone, and leather.  It will be available with and without the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals).

Having looked at a few of the sample pages, the single-column page format looks great and should assist with the overall readability of the volume. You can view a sample of the CEB Study Bible here, which includes the entire Gospel of Mark.

The CEB Study Bible combines the reliability and readability one expects of the Common English Bible translation with notes and other resources to help readers grow in their understanding of and engagement with the Bible. Each biblical book has an introduction that provides an overview of the book and other details like authorship and theme. Extensive study notes throughout the Bible provide information for the reader to understand the text within the larger historical and literary framework of the Bible and give important parallel and background verses. Unique to The CEB Study Bible are 210 sidebar articles for topics that require more discussion than the format of a study note allows. Concordance; 21 full-color maps from National Geographic; five articles from contributing scholars; and other additional in-text maps, charts, and pictures are included. Full color throughout.

City of David

 

The Truth & Life Dramatized Bible (NT)

Via Truth & Life free.

You can get the app here.

(And I’ll forgive you for thinking it’s Free Friday on the blog today.)

 

Jerusalem in 30 Seconds

 

Ancient Quarry, Key Unearthed in Jerusalem

The Times of Israel reports:

Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have discovered a 2,000-year-old stone quarry, along with an iron key and masonry tools dating to the same period, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday.

The large quarry adjacent to the modern-day neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo dates to the first century CE and would have been active around the time of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, archaeologists say.

Some of the stones cut from the rock were more than two yards long. They were likely transported downhill, on an ancient road discovered nearby, to the walled city to the south, where they would have been used in the construction of monumental buildings.

The quarry, seen here from above, is located adjacent to the north Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo (photo credit: Skyview/Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Also unearthed at the site was an iron key.

“The key that was found, and which was probably used to open a door some 2,000 years ago, is curved and has teeth. What was it doing there? We can only surmise that it might have fallen from the pocket of one of the quarrymen,” archaeologist Irina Zilberbod, the excavation director, said in the statement from the Antiquities Authority.

The excavators also found pickaxes and metal wedges used to sever the cut stones from the surrounding rock.

The excavation is a salvage dig meant to allow the construction of a new road.

Ramat Shlomo, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, was built in a part of the West Bank annexed to the Jerusalem municipality after the 1967 war.

The IAA press release is here.

 

You Can Trust the Bible

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Archaeology at the BBC

This is really great. The BBC is releasing videos from the archive:

A collection of programmes charting the BBC’s first ventures into archaeology programming, dating back to the 1950s, available online to watch in full.

There are hours of free video available if - like me - you are into things archaeological. Moreover, there is plenty on the Biblical discipline, with Sir Mortimer Wheeler featuring prominently.

Watch online here.

I’m off to make a cup of coffee…

 

Archbishop, It Starts with Deacons…

Or is that, Deaconesses?

Germany’s top Roman Catholic has called for women to be allowed to become deacons, which would enable them to perform baptisms and marriages outside of mass – a novelty for Catholic women…

But it doesn’t stop there. Priestesses follow, as a natural sort of progression. And soon enough, you’ll sit with:

Just saying…

 

Easter!

Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

 

Passion Week Archaeology

Via Source Flix:

This weekend brings us to the time of pondering and celebrating the two most important events in the course of human history – the death and resurrection of Christ.  Today’s video shows some of my favorite archaeological discoveries that help to solidify the historical context behind those events.

Praise be to Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God and Risen Savior!!!