Yigael Yadin

Josephus the Jew Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal. Yigael Yadin called Josephus “a great historian and a bad Jew.”  But a new book argues that if Josephus was a traitor, “it was to a reckless nationalism he never favored, not to Judaism.”

Joshua’s Fire Noah Wiener, Bible History Daily. The discovery of jars of scorched wheat at Tel Hazor dating from 3400 years ago may be evidence of the Israelites’ destruction of the Canaanite city recounted in the book of Joshua.