Just in time for summer vacation, our latest issue takes you on a trip around the world, or at least the world as it was known to the biblical writers—a world that stretched well beyond ancient Israel to exotic, distant lands that may often have seemed more myth than reality. Our first stop is the Bay of Málaga in southern Spain, where our cover story, “From Tyre to Tarshish,” explores the latest archaeological evidence for Phoenicia’s early expansion into the western Mediterranean and its legendary trade connections with the biblical land of Tarshish. We then venture to the fabled land […]
