Resource Manager Posted April 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Newsletter Friday April 17, 2015 Herodium Walkway Reveals More of Jewish King's Grand Designs Archaeologists unearth grand arched walkway in one of King Herod's major buildings • They believe he intended it to be used for his burial procession, but changed his mind and covered it over • The discovery is to open to the public in about a year. Reuters "Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a grand arched walkway built by Jewish Roman-era king Herod the Great at his Herodium palace that sheds more light on his formidable building projects. After the palace-fort was completed, Herod appears to have changed his mind, and he ordered the entire mound, including the walkway, to be buried under rubble. It remained hidden until the debris was removed during the past year."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Setting the Archaeo-Chemical Record Straight Regarding Tyrian Purple Pigments and Dyes April, 2015 "Prior to the 2014 ASOR Annual Meeting, I never would have thought someone could make snails interesting, but that is exactly what Professor Zvi C. Koren did. His paper, “Setting the Archaeo-Chemical Record Straight Regarding Tyrian Purple Pigments and Dyes,” was engaging, entertaining, informative, and full of snails. Professor Koren presented his paper during the Art Historical Approaches to the Ancient Near East II session at the 2014 ASOR Annual Meeting in San Diego. Afterwards, he volunteered to present his paper again for ASORtv. I had a feeling his paper was going to be interesting when he asked if we could rearrange the furniture in our studio so he could present while standing. Watch it below."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 A THEISTIC WORLDVIEW Mark Chavalas: New Evidence for Jewish Exiles Found in Clay Tablets April 26, 2015 12:45 am • Mark Chavalas La Crosse Mark. W. Chavalas "The Bible has much to say about the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II. The books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah and Lamentations depict the pitiful conditions of the exiled Judeans, many of whom were sent to Babylonia, never to be heard from again."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Relics, Writings Show non-Jewish Influences on Jewish Practices Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 4:00 pm By Rabbi Josef Davidson | 0 comments "My favorite professor in rabbinical school taught Semitic languages, and I took virtually every course that he taught in Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic. His own Ph. D. had been earned at the Sorbonne, and his thesis was the culmination of his study of what he called “magic bowls.” These bowls were found buried in the earth bottoms up and inside them were incantations written in Aramaic." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 The Search for Sodom Posted on May 4, 2015 by Leen Ritmeyer "On Wednesday the 6th of May at 21.00pm, and Thursday the 7th of May at 13.00, an episode called “The Search for Sodom” in the series of “Secrets of the Bible” will be broadcast in the UK. This will be on Yesterday TV (Freeview Channel 19, Sky Channel 537), with the programme being available on UKTV Play service for the following week." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Sodom and Gomorrah Posted on May 12, 2015 by Leen Ritmeyer "Many people in the UK saw the episode of “The Search for Sodom” (see previous post) and it was apparently well received (in the USA it was shown on AHC). The identification of Tall el-Hammam with Sodom was made by Dr. Steve Collins." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2015 The Treasury of the Temple in Jerusalem Posted on May 15, 2015 by Leen Ritmeyer "A unique feature of our new guide book to the Temple Mount are two plans, one of the present-day Temple Mount and a corresponding map of the area in the first century, on which all the New Testament links are indicated. Comparing these two plans allows the visitor (or armchair traveler) to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and his disciples around the Temple."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 1,400-Year-Old Wine Press Mysteriously Appears in Jerusalem By: Tazpit News Agency Published: May 17th, 2015 By Michael Zeff "While jogging in a Jerusalem neighborhood park, a local Jerusalemite stumbled upon an ancient ruin which hadn’t previously been there. The Jerusalem resident immediately reported the strange discovery to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), who confirmed that they had no archaeological excavations going on in that neighborhood or any knowledge of any ruins."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thursday, May 21, 2015 Jerusalem Lower Aqueduct Section Discovered "A new section of the Lower Aqueduct built by the Hasmoneans to bring water to Jerusalem has been exposed near Har Homa between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. A press release from the Israel Antiquities Authority gives more details."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Earliest Depiction of Music Scene Discovered in Israel Posted by TANN ArchaeoHeritage, Archaeology, Breakingnews, Greater Middle East, Israel, Near East 5:00 PM"The most ancient music scene known in the research of Israel appears on a rare 5,000 year old cylinder seal impression from the Early Bronze Age. So believe archaeologists Dr. Yitzhak Paz, Dr. Ianir Milevski and Nimrod Getzov of the Israel Antiquities Authority, who will present their new findings in a May 28 symposium entitled "Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll" on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Conserving, Restoring, Sharing Dead Sea Scrolls Friday 29th, May 2015 Written by Deborah Rubin Fields in Israel "Have you ever taped up a torn page? In our household, taping has saved many a book and article from falling apart. Seems like a practical solution, right? Wrong! While it might do the job on faulty binding or read-it-again storybooks, it hasn’t worked well on extremely old, organic (mostly animal skin) materials, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Curator Pnina Shor, who heads up the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Department for the Treatment and Conservation of Artifacts, recently discussed this sticky mess." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 PUBLIC RELEASE: 2-JUN-2015 Archaeologists Restore Early Islamic Caliph's Palace on the Shores of the Sea of Galilee Department of Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz receives financial support through the Cultural Preservation Program of the German Federal Foreign Office JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET MAINZ "The Department of Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is to receive EUR 30,000 through the Cultural Preservation Program of the German Federal Foreign Office to help with the restoration of a caliph's palace on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The palace complex covers a site of about 5,000 square meters and was uncovered from 1932 to 1939 by German archaeologists from the Catholic Görres Society and the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. It sits on land that today still belongs to the German Holy Land Association (DVHL) and is managed by the Israel National Parks Authority." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 New Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription Published. What Does it Say? Posted on June 3, 2015 by lukechandler "An inscription discovered in 2012 at Khirbet Qeiyafa has been published, and it contains a name found in the Bible. The inscription is incised on a storage jar from the late-11th/early-10th century BC, the biblical period of Saul and David. The article appears in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) and is attributed to Yosef Garfinkel, Mitka R. Golub, Haggai Misgave, and Saar Ganor."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 VIDEO: Ancient Village of Shivta Sunday, June 07, 2015 | Israel Today Staff "The following video offers stunning aerial footage of the ruins of Shivta, a Nabatean farming village situated along the portion of the ancient Spice Route that passes through Israel’s southern Negev region."Continued https://vimeo.com/129982625 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 SCIENCE, ARCHAEOLOGY The 6,000-Year-Old Crown Found in a Dead Sea Cave By April Holloway, www.ancient-origins.net | June 8, 2015 "The oldest known crown in the world, which was famously discovered in 1961 as part of the Nahal Mishmar Hoard, along with numerous other treasured artifacts, dates back to the Copper Age between 4000–3500 B.C. It was revealed in New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the “Masters of Fire: Copper Age Art from Israel” exhibit earlier this year."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 Near Jerusalem, 1500-Year-Old Byzantine-Era Road Station and Church Uncovered By DANIEL K. EISENBUD 10 June 2015 12:24 "Archaeological excavations near Highway 1 – at the entrance to Abu Gosh, west of Jerusalem – uncovered a large Byzantine-era road station that included a church. The excavations were conducted while upgrading and widening the highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in a project initiated and funded by Netivei Israel - National Transport Infrastructure Company, Antiquities Authority spokeswoman Yoli Shwartz announced on Wednesday." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 Wednesday, June 17, 2015 New Video: From Jericho to Jerusalem on the Roman Road "Using maps from the Satellite Bible Atlas and new aerial imagery, Bill Schlegel has created a video that takes you from Jericho up to Jerusalem along the ancient route. Jesus traveled this way many times including on his way up to the city to present himself as king. This was also the route of the man whose life was saved by the Good Samaritan." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 Ancient Coin Of The Canaanite Realm 06/17/15 Steve Lipman Staff Writer "This coin probably was not worth very much when it was minted three millennia ago, but it’s priceless to contemporary historians and archaeologists. Discovered last year at a cave near Kibbutz Lahav in southern Israel, it is a product of Egyptians who ran an administrative center there about 3,400 years ago, when Canaan was ruled by Egypt; it recently went on display at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thursday, June 18, 2015 Church of Multiplication Severely Damaged by Arsonists "Arsonists attacked the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fish at Tabgha at 3:30 this morning. Graffiti left at the site indicates that the attack was perpetrated by religious Jews. Police have arrested and released 16 suspects, all minors from Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The graffiti reads, “The false gods will be eliminated,” a reference to a Jewish prayer and consistent with similar attacks in the past." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 UHart Archaeological Team Finds Ancient Mosaic Floor from the Church of the Annunciation (Greek Orthodox) in Nazareth Posted 06/19/2015 Posted by David Isgur "A mosaic floor that appears to be from one of the earliest churches in the history of Christianity was uncovered recently in Nazareth, Israel, at the Church of the Annunciation (Greek Orthodox) by a team of archaeologists led by Professor Richard Freund and Adjunct Professor Maha Darawsha of the University of Hartford and Professor Shalom Yanklovitz of Haifa University. The University of Hartford project is a collaboration with Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (Professor and Dean Philip Reeder) and the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire (Professor Harry Jol) and is licensed by the Israel Antiquities Authority."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2015 Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Marble Dolphin Surfaces Near Gaza Archaeologists think 16-inch-high statuette found in southern Israel may have been part of larger sculpture, wonder how it ended up in Byzantine floor BY ILAN BEN ZION June 25, 2015, 11:28 pm "You would think that 12 miles inland from the Mediterranean Sea is the last place to find a dolphin clutching a fish between its jaws. Hewn from marble, the 2,000-or-so-year-old statuette surfaced during archaeological excavations near Kibbutz Magen, bordering the Gaza Strip, in March of this year."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 Posted on Jun 25, 2015 at 3:42 PM · by SourceFlix 3 The Topography of Jerusalem "Jerusalem and the culminating biblical events that happened there have dramatically shaped world history. Jerusalem’s geography and topography have dramatically affected its own history, determining where people lived, from what direction invading armies attacked, and where the city expanded over time." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 2,000-year-old Ritual Bath Found Under Family’s Jerusalem Living Room Floor By DANIEL K. EISENBUD 07/01/2015 13:27 "A 2,000-year-old ritual bath (mikve) from the Second Temple period was discovered beneath a family’s living room floor during renovations in their home in Jerusalem’s southwest Ein Kerem neighborhood, the Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Susa, of Purim Story Fame, Becomes World Heritage Site Ancient city known in the Bible as Shushan is said to be where dramatic events in Scroll of Esther played out BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF AND AFP July 5, 2015, 8:57 am "Some 2,500 years after the ostensible events of the Purim story permanently stamped the Persian city of Shushan in Jewish history books, the ancient site was given the UN’s imprimatur as a World Heritage Site Saturday." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Bet She'arim - Israel's 9th World Heritage Site 06 Jul 2015 "On Sunday (July 4, 2015), UNESCO's World Heritage Conference declared the necropolis of Bet She'arim located in the lower Galilee and dating from the 2nd century BCE a World Heritage Site - Israel's ninth. Calling it "a landmark of Jewish renewal," the UNESCO's World Heritage Conference described the site: "Consisting of a series of catacombs, the necropolis of Bet She'arim developed from the 2nd century BCE onwards as the primary Jewish burial place outside Jerusalem following the failure of the second Jewish revolt against Roman rule. Located southeast of Haifa, these catacombs are a treasury of artworks and inscriptions in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew. Beh She’arim bears unique testimony to ancient Judaism under the leadership of Rabbi Judah the Patriarch, who is credited with Jewish renewal after 135 CE." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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