What Does the Bible Say About Tattoos?

Trouble viewing this email? Click here to view in browser October 31, 2016 Feature What Does the Bible Say About Tattoos? Taboo tattoos in Leviticus Leviticus 19:28 says, "You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD." Although this passage clearly prohibits tattoos, it does not give an explicit reason why. This begs the question: Why does the Bible prohibit tattoos? In his Biblical Views column "Unholy Ink: What Does the Bible Say about Tattoos?" in the November/December 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Mark W. Chavalas examines the taboo on tattoos in the Bible. Read More » Last Chance: BAS Harvest Sale This fall, save on Temple Mount books and DVDs from the BAS collection with free domestic shipping! Resources include Jerusalem's Temple Mount by BAR editor Hershel Shanks, The Quest: Revealing The Temple Mount In Jerusalem by archaeological architect Leen Ritmeyer and The Jerusalem of Jesus DVD featuring archaeologist Dan Bahat. For a limited time only—sale ends October 31, 2016 at midnight ET! Shop Today In Case You Missed It Love Your Neighbor Only Israelites or everyone? It's one of the most famous lines in the Bible: "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18). Who are the neighbors of which the Book Leviticus speaks? Does the command mean to just love fellow Israelites—or everyone? In BAR, Richard Elliott Friedman examines the interpretation that the verse means to love only one's fellow Israelites as oneself in his article "Love Your Neighbor: Only Israelites or Everyone?"—available in its entirety for free in Bible History Daily. Read More » The Holy Bible: A Buyer's Guide The religion section of most bookstores includes an amazing array of Bibles. In our FREE eBook The Holy Bible: A Buyer's Guide, prominent Biblical scholars Leonard Greenspoon and Harvey Minkoff expertly guide you through 21 different Bible translations (or versions) and address their content, text, style and religious orientation. Download the Free eBook In Case You Missed It Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues Can we make sense of the Biblical plagues? The Book of Exodus in the Bible describes ten Egyptian plagues that bring suffering to the land of pharaoh. Are these Biblical plagues plausible on any level? The article "Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues" by Ziony Zevit, originally published in Bible Review, looks at these Biblical plagues from various vantage points. Were they natural disasters, a demonstration of the impotence of the Egyptian gods or an undoing of Creation? Read More » All-Access Pass to the Biblical World Dig into the illuminating world of the Bible with a Biblical Archaeology Society All-Access membership. Combine a one-year tablet and print subscription to BAR with membership in the BAS Library to start your journey into the ancient past today! Subscribe Today E6BO31 Unsubscribe Forward To A Friend You received this email as part of your free registration to Bible History Daily emails. Help us be sure your email update isn't filtered as spam. Adding our return address bas@biblicalarchaeology.org to your address book may whitelist us with your filter, helping future email updates get to your inbox. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up to receive your own copy. Manage Account | Contact | Privacy Policy Copyright © 2016 Biblical Archaeology Society 4710 41st Street NW, Washington, DC 20016 Telephone: 202 364-3300