Read on 12/13/08 Pagan Yahwism: The Folk Religion of Ancient Israel By Ephraim Stern The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless there were Israelites, particularly those…
Category: Archaeology
What’s Ugaritic Got to Do with Anything?
What’s Ugaritic Got to Do with Anything? Dr. Michael S. Heiser, Academic Editor, Logos Bible Software We recently placed what is, as far as we know, the first electronic digital library for…
Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah?
Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah? Startling new inscriptions from two different sites reopen the debate about the meaning of asherah By André Lemaire New inscriptions from two different sites have reopened…
Pharaoh’s Workers: How the Israelites Lived in Egypt
Pharaoh’s Workers: How the Israelites Lived in Egypt By Leonard and Barbara Lesko Scroll down to sidebars: In the Words of a Worker The Workers’ Tombs Whatever doubts scholars may entertain about…
Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem: Once or Twice?
Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem: Once or Twice? By Mordechai Cogan Scroll down to sidebars: The Biblical Account of Sennacherib’s Attack Sennacherib Boasts of His Conquests in Judah The Assyrian monarch Sennacherib’s military…
Lachish Reliefs
From: http://www.bibleplaces.com/newsletter/2002july.htm Free Photos, July 2002 -a special feature of the BiblePlaces newsletter- The following photos are of the famous Lachish Reliefs of Sennacherib at the British Museum. The photographs on this…
Inscription: “Ben HaCohen HaGadol”
Israel Antiquities Authority Press Office A Fragment of a Sarcophagus was Discovered on which is Carved the Inscription: “Ben HaCohen HaGadol” Just before Yom Kippur – In Excavations along the Security Fence…
Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Combat Tuberculosis
Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Combat Tuberculosis Jerusalem, July 14, 2008 – Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. According to Prof. Mark…
Excavations and Restoration work at Tel Lachish
Excavations and Restoration work at Tel Lachish Prof. David Ussishkin Fig. 1. Tel Lachish, from northwest The Site and the Excavations Tel Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir), the site of biblical Lachish, is one…