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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