Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 NEWS Found: Fresh Clues to Mystery of King Solomon's Mines Analysis of 3,000-year-old animal waste confirms that an ancient mining complex in Israel dates to the golden age of the biblical monarch. By Michelle Z. Donahue PUBLISHED APRIL 2, 2017 "Manure preserved for millennia by the arid climate of Israel’s Timna Valley is adding fresh fuel to a long-simmering debate about the biblical king Solomon and the source of his legendary wealth."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 A Capital from Solomon’s Porch on the Temple Mount Posted on April 5, 2017 by Leen Ritmeyer "The Israel Hayom newspaper reported yesterday that a capital of the 2nd Temple era has been found by the Temple Mount Sifting Project (TMSP)." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Crusader Wreck Tells Tale Of Crusader Holy Land Conquest 4/02/2017 07:00:00 PM "Christian knights and Mameluke warriors were fighting on the walls. Now the wreck of a 13th century ship reveals the desperate bid to save the Holy Land." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 As They Bid for Survival, Archaeologists Point to ‘Egyptian’ finger from Temple Mount Inch-and-a-half-long stone fragment may be from Late Bronze Age Egypt, Temple Mount Sifting Project says, but research and funding needed to ascertain it BY ILAN BEN ZION April 9, 2017, 3:16 pm "In an statement timed just ahead of Passover, the Temple Mount Sifting Project said Sunday it had found a stone finger that may have belonged to a Bronze Age Egyptian statue, but conceded it wasn’t sure." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Ancient Underground Tunnel System Discovered Near Har Hevron IDF soldiers accompany civilians in tour of underground tunnels near Har Hevron town. Orly Harari, 02/04/17 07:22 "An underground tunnel system from the early 2nd century C.E. Bar Kokhba period has been found in the "Hilkiah Palace" in a village in west Har Hevron, On Friday, a group of hikers accompanied by IDF soldiers entered the tunnel system via the Arab town of Dir Tzamat, near the Har Hevron town of Negohot." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Centre for Israel Studies The Arch of Titus Project "The Arch of Titus Project is a multi-faceted exploration of the Arch of Titus, a triumphal arch built in Rome to commemorate the victory of the Roman general, later emperor, Titus, in the Jewish War of 66-74 CE. One of the most significant Roman artifacts to have survived, the Arch of Titus has been of continuing significance for both Jews and Christians for nearly two millennia. The image of the seven-branched menorah that appears on the Arch is now symbol of the State of Israel." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple at Passover Posted on April 8, 2017 by Leen Ritmeyer "On Sunday, the 10th of April, 2017, the Jewish people begin celebrating Pesach – Jewish Passover. That is one week earlier than Easter. However, in this blog post we would like to remember the time that Jesus as a twelve-year-old visited the Temple during Passover for the first time in his life." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 ANCIENT JEW REVIEW APRIL 10, 2017 The Aramaic Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Why it Matters and What Lies Ahead by Daniel Machiela in Articles ENLARGING THE ARAMAIC LIBRARY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM "The cache of Aramaic literature that gradually emerged from the caves near Qumran provides us with an important new window onto Judaism of the Second Temple period. Some of these scrolls furnished early, original-language witnesses to books about which we had previously known only through later translations ..." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Virtual Jerusalem Posted on April 11, 2017 by Leen Ritmeyer "Two new apps have been developed to help visitors visualize ancient Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. The BYU has developed a free app, which can be downloaded here." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 What Would Jesus Eat This Easter? A First Century Menu For The Last Supper 13 April 2017 "The Last Supper remains one of the most culturally recognised meals. We are so familiar with the image of Jesus and his disciples sitting around a table. But if you had to put some food on that table, would you know what to serve? All four gospels, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, describe Jesus having dinner with his friends just before his arrest and eventual execution. But the gospels are curiously quiet on what was eaten at dinner – after all, one cannot live on bread alone."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Hebrew as the Language behind the World’s First Alphabet? By: Douglas Petrovich April 2017 "What is the language behind the world’s first alphabet? For over 150 years, scholars have studied the world’s first alphabetic script, the second millennium BCE Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, found at Serabit el-Khadim in the southern reaches of the Sinai Peninsula." Continued ASOR Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Of interest: Another Son of God? Pilate’s Tiberieum at Caesarea Maritima Posted on April 10, 2017 | 2 Comments "Pontius Pilate was the Prefect of Judea that condemned Jesus to death (Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 18 and 19). He is mentioned 61 times in the New Testament. He governed Judea from A.D. 26 to 36."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Did a Tsunami Hit Ancient Israel 2,800 Years Ago and Nobody Noticed? Anomalous layer of sandstone overlying Phoenician graves in Tel Achziv, Israel is otherwise hard to explain, archaeologists say, though there's no known record of the event By Ruth Schuster Apr 11, 2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 More on Virtual Reality: Ancient Jerusalem Comes Alive in New Virtual-Reality App By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor | April 6, 2017 06:46am ET "Visitors to Jerusalem and virtual tourists alike can now see the city as it looked in ancient history, with a virtual-reality app based on archaeological reconstructions of the city at the height of its splendor under Roman rule in the first century."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2017 Unique Mother-of-Pearl Menorah Etching Found in Ancient Caesarea Tablet decorated with candelabrum, likely part of a box for a Torah scroll, uncovered in ancient Roman temple; dates to circa 4th-5th century BY ILAN BEN ZION April 26, 2017, 1:05 pm "A 1,500-year-old mother-of-pearl tablet inscribed with a six-branched menorah, which was likely part of a box housing a Torah scroll, was recently found at the ancient Roman city of Caesarea, on Israel’s coast, archaeologists announced Wednesday."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Evidence of World War I Battlefield Exposed East of Tel Aviv By JNi.Media - 13 Iyyar 5777 – May 9, 2017 "Evidence of fierce battles between the British and Ottoman armies in the form of dozens of bullet cartridges, shell fragments and military items from World War I was recently exposed in an archaeological excavation of the Israel Antiquities Authority in which young people participated, near Rosh Ha’ayin in central Israel. The excavation was carried out in conjunction with paving an access road between Rosh Ha’ayin and the Afek Industrial Park, funded by the Rosh Ha’ayin municipality."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 First Person: Was the Dead Sea Scroll Community Celibate? As published in the May/June 2017 Biblical Archaeology Review Hershel Shanks • 05/08/2017 "One of the many fascinating questions about the Dead Sea Scroll community living at Qumran is whether its members were celibate. Did they marry and have children or not? According to the ancient Jewish historian Josephus and the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, the Essenes were indeed celibate.1 The Roman philosopher and naturalist Pliny the Elder agrees and seems to locate an Essene community at Qumran. The question, of course, is whether the Qumran community was in fact Essene."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Israel Unveils Archaeological Garden in Jerusalem's Old City By Daniel K. Eisenbud May 8, 2017 19:03 “Everything we are doing in Jerusalem is in order to reassure and confirm our existence here.” "Construction Minister Yoav Galant on Monday reiterated the unbreakable bond between the Jewish people and Jerusalem at the unveiling of the Davidson Center’s Archeological Garden of Jerusalem, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the capital’s reunification." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Israel CBNNEWS.COM The Bible Confirmed: The War that Catapulted Archaeology in Jerusalem 05-10-2017 Chris Mitchell JERUSALEM, Israel – "In the past 50 years, archaeologists have uncovered some of history's most significant finds in and around Jerusalem. Those discoveries became possible when Israelis unified their ancient capital in June of 1967. When 10-year-old Eilat Mazar first heard that Israel recaptured the Old City, she felt as if part of her family had come home."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Rare Prehistoric Slab Discovered on Highway 38 By TPS / Tazpit News Agency - 20 Iyyar 5777 – May 15, 2017 by Ilana Messika "Israeli archaeologists discovered a rare 9,000-year-old limestone slab used by inhabitants of the land during the Stone Age to light fire. The find was discovered as part of Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavations carried out prior to the expansion of Highway 38, a road that leads from Route 1 to Beit Shemesh in the Judean foothills."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Newsletter Tuesday May 23, 2017 Study: Jerusalem Reservoirs Used by Pilgrims 2,000 Years Ago "Gigantic ancient pools found in Old City -- more than in any other Mediterranean city -- provided water for masses making pilgrimage to the Temple, expert says • University of Haifa, Harvard University launched soon-to-be-published study." Yori Yalon Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 New Six Day War Artifacts Hint at a Battle on the Temple Mount"Bullets, shell casings discovered in rubble and examined by the Temple Mount Sifting Project raise questions about fight for Judaism’s holiest site during the 1967 war" BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN May 24, 2017, 1:36 am Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Evidence of Battle of Jerusalem 2,000 Years Ago "On the occasion of the jubilee celebrations for J'lem's reunification, researchers are unveiling evidence of the last battle of Jerusalem." Contact Editor Arutz Sheva Staff, 25/05/17 10:21 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 More on: Israelis Unearth Evidence of Jerusalem’s Last Battle 2000 Years Ago May 25, 2017 Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 More on: KETURA, ISRAEL Judean Date Palm Methuselah "This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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