Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 IN PHOTOS The Sea of Galilee: A Biblical Lake in Recession About 1 million tourists visit the Sea of Galilee every year, but a sharp drop in rainfall has caused the biblical lake's waters to recede. By Reuters Dec 26, 2016 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Possible Medieval 'Synagogue' Uncovered Near Sea of Galilee By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | January 23, 2017 06:46am ET "A medieval building that may have been used as a synagogue has been uncovered at the site of Huqoq, a village near the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Constructed during the 12th to 13th centuries, the building is located on top of the ruins of a fifth-century Roman synagogue known to contain fantastic mosaics, including one depicting the story of Noah's Ark. The medieval builders put to use some of the remains from the fifth-century synagogue." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 What’s Really Buried in Hebron’s Cave of Patriarchs? Hidden Chambers Revealed! [PHOTOS] By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz January 11, 2017 , 12:30 pm "Thirty-five years ago, a small group of Jews set out on a difficult and dangerous mission: to prove that the Biblical account of a cave in Hebron was true. One of those men tells of what they found: a secret chamber under the site, evidence that refutes the United Nations version of history supported by most of the nations of the world. Of all the holy sites in Israel, the Machpela (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron has special significance as being the oldest. A burial site for the three patriarchs and three of the matriarchs – Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah – it marks the origins of all three Abrahamic religions." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Tel Megiddo and What Megiddo Tells Us Israel's most strategic site offers you a strategic lesson. Posted on Monday, January 23, 2017 "If the world wants something so badly, why not let them have it? The problem comes when what they want is what God has given you and commanded you to guard. It becomes a tug of war with your heart as the prize." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Resources for Studying the Second Temple Period January 26, 2017 in Second Temple Period | Tags: New Testament Background, Second Temple Period Judaism "Christians have often called the Second Temple Period is sometimes called the “400 silent years” since there are no authoritative writers from the end of the Old Testament until Paul begins to write in the early 50s A.D. But this period is anything but silent! Jewish writers produced a considerable amount of literature during the Second Temple period, especially if we include Josephus and Philo. Aside from the New Testament, these are the main collections of texts a student needs to read in order to understand the Second Temple period." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 By BRANDON MARLON 11/13/2016 15:12 18 Remarkable Facts in Jewish History Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 UN Chief Says Temple Mount Was Home to Jewish Temple, Palestinians Demand Apology January 30, 2017 7:56am JERUSALEM (JTA) — "Palestinian officials are demanding an apology from the new United Nations chief after he said it was “completely clear that the Temple that the Romans destroyed in Jerusalem was a Jewish temple.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also told Israel Radio in an interview Friday with its New York correspondent that “no one can deny the fact that Jerusalem is holy to three religions today,” including Judaism." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Half-Shekel Tithe for Building Temple Reinstated by Sanhedrin After 2,000 Years By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz January 30, 2017 , 12:30 pm "After a 2,000 year moratorium, it is now possible for a Jew anywhere in the world to perform the mitzvah (commandment) of paying the half-shekel, a Biblically-mandated tax incumbent on every Jew to finance the day-to-day operations of the Temple. There are now two ways to perform this commandment: one method for people who can hand-deliver their offering, and another for those who can’t." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Aren’t You Dying To Know? 2 February 2017 "Aren’t you dying to know what this month’s “Find of the Month” is? Well, if you can’t tell from my bad pun, this month’s find of the month is a murex trunculus: a rock snail shell. It was found by the Singer family from Jerusalem, who were really excited to have found something so special. This shell is another piece to a puzzle we have been trying to put together here for years." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Jewish Purity Practices in Roman Judea: The Evidence of ArchaeologyFebruary 2017 By: Yonatan Adler "One of the outstanding characteristics of Jewish religious practice during the late Second Temple period (first century BCE until 70 CE) was a marked preoccupation with the ritual purity laws found in the Torah. Concentrated in the Priestly Code (mostly in Lev 11–15 and Num 19), these laws relate to numerous sources of ritual impurity, such as male and female genital discharges, various skin diseases, as well as human and certain animal corpses. In the literature penned during this period, including the Biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and the works of Philo and Flavius Josephus, we find frequent references to these laws and the ways they were implemented practically by various Jewish groups."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Archaeologists Get Set to Dig at Masada, After 11-Year Hiatus Tel Aviv University team will excavate rebel dwellings, Herod’s gardens in month-long expedition at UNESCO heritage site BY ILAN BEN ZION February 5, 2017, 8:02 am "For the first time in over a decade, archaeologists are commencing new excavations atop Masada, studying previously untouched areas of the legendary desert mountain fortress, including the residences of Jewish rebels who met their doom in 74 CE."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 ANCIENT JEW REVIEW FEBRUARY 5, 2017 Insights into the Growth of Biblical Literature from the Dead Sea Scrolls by Reinhard Kratz in Articles EVALUATING EARLY EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE "The Hebrew Bible (like the New Testament or the Qur‘an) has come to us as an almost hermetically sealed corpus of writings. According to the religious claims of this corpus its authority is indisputable. As a result, biblical scholarship, which is usually bound to a religious (Jewish or Christian) community, is sometimes struggling to apply the usual methods of historical criticism to the collection of its “holy scriptures.” For this reason, biblical scholarship today is desperately looking for empirical evidence and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls seventy years ago, has given us such empirical evidence in abundance. For the first time, we are given an authentic insight into the status of the manuscript tradition of biblical and many parabiblical Jewish writings in the period from the third-century BCE to the first-century CE. As such, we have the opportunity to check the results of the 250-year history of critical biblical scholarship on ancient manuscripts." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Monday, February 06, 2017 New Release: Bible Mapper WebViewer "There is a new Bible Mapper WebViewer that is designed to be a quick reference tool, for use on computers, tablets, and phones. Here are several ways to use it: Navigate around a blank base map of the biblical world.Enter the name of a biblical site and it will appear on the map. You could try Shechem, Lachish, or Capernaum.Choose a biblical passage and all sites mentioned in it will show. You could try Joshua 6-8, Mark 1-2, or Revelation 2-3.Select another webpage and it will map all biblical sites on that page. Try, for example, the Sea of Galilee page at www.LifeintheHolyLand.com.Add roads from the OT or NT periods. Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 THE SCROLL The Babylonian Talmud Is Now Available Free Online in English and HebrewThe non-profit Sefaria has fulfilled a dream that dates back to Albert EinsteinBy Yair RosenbergFebruary 07, 2017"One of the most accessible Hebrew and English translations of the Babylonian Talmud is going open source. Today, Sefaria, an online nonprofit bringing traditional Jewish texts to the internet, announced that it will be posting the entire compendium with the crisp bilingual translation of Jerusalem polymath Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Even-Yisrael."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Archaeologists to Break Ground at Biblical Site Where Ark of the Covenant Stood Israeli and French researchers to excavate ancient site of Kiryat Ye’arim, outside Jerusalem, one of the few unstudied biblical telsBY ILAN BEN ZION February 8, 2017, 5:16 pmContinued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Back to Solomon’s Era: Results of the First Excavations at “Slaves’ Hill” BASOR No. 376, November 2016 article, “Back to Solomon’s Era: Results of the First Excavations at “Slaves’ Hill” (Site 34, Timna, Israel),” by Erez Ben-Yosef (Tel Aviv University). "Site 34 (“Slaves’ Hill”) is a large copper smelting camp located on a flat mesa at the center of the Timna Valley. The first excavations at the site focused on the main slag mounds, related metallurgical installations, the gatehouse, and the site’s perimeter wall. The results, coupled with 14 new radiocarbon dates retrieved from short-lived samples, corroborate the recently suggested new chronological framework for Iron Age copper production in the southern Arabah and reveal more information on the nature of copper production at Timna at the turn of the first millennium B.C.E. ..."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 February 13, 2017 Sinkholes and Tourism at the Dead Sea "The shrinking Dead Sea is a perennial news item, but The Times of Israel’s article today has some new information on the subject that I haven’t seen in previous reports. There’s also a 360-degree-video taken from a boat moving along the shore."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Archaeologists Shocked to Find Ancient Gateway at ‘House of Gates’Excavation at Beit She’arim in northern Israel unearths fortifications of Roman-era Jewish town where the Mishna was writtenBY ILAN BEN ZION February 15, 2017, 2:31 pm Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 The Consortium for the Bethsaida Excavation Project: Report on the 2016 Excavation Season By Rami Arav, Carl Savage, Kate Raphael, Nicolae Roddy, Vanessa Workman, Kenneth M. BensimonUniversity of Nebraska, OmahaBethsaida ExcavationFebruary 2017Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Archaeology Sheds New Light on Mystery of Earth's Magnetic Field Tel Aviv University researchers use ancient jars found in Judea to help solve one of the great mysteries of physics15 February 2017"Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth's magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. The weakening of the geomagnetic field, which extends from the planet's core into outer space and was first recorded 180 years ago, has raised concern by some for the welfare of the biosphere."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 PUBLIC RELEASE: 8-FEB-2017 Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave 'One of the most exciting archaeological discoveries -- and the most important in the last 60 years -- in the caves of Qumran' THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEMContinued Also @New Dead Sea Scroll Find May Help Detect ForgeriesNational Geographic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2017Judah was Taken into Exile ... and then what Happened???"As you read through the Old Testament, do you ever get confused about the order of events during the years of the Exile? In English Bibles, 2 Chronicles ends and then the book of Ezra begins. But where does Daniel fit in? Or Ezekiel? If Ezekiel is in Exile, why is he writing to people back in Judah? What about the reference to Jehoiachin at the end of 2 Kings? When did that happen?"Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Ancient Roman House and Phallic Amulets Discovered in Israel By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | February 20, 2017 11:46am ET"A house dating back around 1,900 years, which is decorated with frescoes showing scenes of nature, has been discovered at the archaeological site of Omrit in northern Israel. Phallic amulets were also found at the site. The house was constructed during the late first or early second century A.D., and was likely two stories tall, said Daniel Schowalter, a professor at Carthage College in Wisconsin."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Elyonim veTachtonim23 March 2017 Electronic inventory of angels, demons and ghosts in the early rabbinic literatureContinued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 1,800 Year Old List of Synagogue Donors Discovered in Galilee Village By JNi.Media - 25 Shevat 5777 – February 21, 2017Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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