Resource Manager Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 More on: Finds from a New Excavation in Shiloh Posted on July 14, 2017 by Leen Ritmeyer "The Israel HaYom Newsletter announced today that new 10 ancient storage jars have been found in a new excavation in Shiloh: Excavation at ancient Shiloh seeks to locate site of Jewish tabernacle that dates to the time the Jewish people first arrived in the land of Israel • “This is a very exciting find,” says Archaeology Coordinator in the Civil Administration Hanania Hizmi."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 1,600 Years Ago, Soldiers May Have Quaffed Wine from this Desert Press"A large Byzantine-era wine press uncovered in the Negev region is only the second of its kind to be found"BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN July 25, 2017, 12:58 pm Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 New Finds Suggest Second Temple Priests Who Fled the Romans Kept Up Holy Rituals in the Galilee"After seven years of excavations at Magdala, four rare ritual baths and a unique carved stone point to importance of ancient fishing town to priestly class"BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN July 26, 2017, 1:15 pm Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Evidence of Babylonian Destruction of Jerusalem Found at the City of DavidJuly 2017 "Evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians is currently being unearthed in the City of David in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Jerusalem Walls National Park, funded by the City of David Foundation (Elad). In the excavations – concentrated on the eastern slope of the City of David, dwelling places 2,500 years old, once covered by a rockslide, have been revealed. Nestled within the rockslide many findings have surfaced: charred wood, grape seeds, pottery, fish scales and bones, and unique, rare artifacts. These findings depict the affluence and character of Jerusalem, capital of the Judean Kingdom, and are mesmerizing proof of the city's demise at the hands of the Babylonians." Continued also @JewishPress.com They Were Here on Tisha B’Av: New Evidence of Babylonian Destruction Discovered in City of David"Evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians has recently been unearthed in the City of David, in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Jerusalem Walls National Park, funded by the City of David Foundation (Elad)." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Travel Back in Time at this Secret Cool Oasis in Jerusalem’s Old City The first stage of the 100-year-old Terra Sancta Museum’s reboot offers a multi-media tour of the holy city from a Christian perspective BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN July 31, 2017, 9:37 pm "Moving lithely in his brown Franciscan monk’s habit and sandals, Father Eugenio Alliata stoops next to a newly discovered Second Temple period flagstone to pick up a mosaic piece overlooked by the Israel Antiquities Authority crew that morning. Such finds, he confirms, are a typical byproduct of the ongoing expansion and renovation of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem’s Old City."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Solomon’s Stables: History and Destruction July 27, 2017 "Learn More about Solomon’s Stables! Hello everyone! We are starting a new video series on YouTube taking you on a tour of the Temple Mount! Check out the first video and see Solomon’s Stables! This structure has a rich history and is now the Al-Marwani Mosque. This is also the area of the Temple Mount from where most of our material originated. Here are some of the highlights from the video and some more interesting facts about the site!"Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 Preliminary Report on the Results of the 2017 Excavation Season at Tel Kabri Assaf Yasur-Landau,* Eric H. Cline,† Andrew Koh,‡ and Alexandra Ratzlaff§ "The 2017 excavations at Tel Kabri, the capital of a Middle Bronze Age Canaanite kingdom located in the western Galilee region of modern Israel, lasted from 18 June to 27 July 2017. Highlights of the season included uncovering a courtyard of the palace with rich material culture deposits; massive architecture belonging to phase 4 of the palace ("the painted palace"); and additional data on the "northern complex" belonging to both phase 4 and phase 3 ("the wine palace"). In addition, a solidly built Iron Age structure was unexpectedly found, located above the MB palace courtyard."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 Tel Gath - A Selection of the 2017 Aerial Photos ON AUGUST 4, 2017 BY ARENMAEIRIN"The aerial photos at the end of the 2017 season were great (taken by Griffin Aerial Imaging). So, in addition to the group photo that was already posted, here are some of the views of the various areas. And may I make a suggestion to those out there who want to be creative and suggest reconstructing lines of walls, features, houses, etc.: what you see in the aerials does not enable you to understand the complex architectural stratigraphy on the ground…" Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 More on: Huqoq 2017: Mosaics of Jonah and the Whale, the Tower of Babel and More "Huqoq excavations expose vibrant Greco-Roman and Biblical scenes" Nicola McCutcheon • 08/02/2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 Sunday, August 06, 2017 New Excavations Suggest el-Araj was New Testament Bethsaida "For years, some scholars have doubted the claim of excavators working at et-Tell that they had discovered Bethsaida (see my explanation here). But as the years went by, and archaeologists continued to come up empty (of significant remains from the right time period), they doubled down and their voices became more shrill in their defense. Succeeding excavation reports were titled Bethsaida I, Bethsaida II, Bethsaida III, Bethsaida IV, etc."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 The Lost Home of Jesus' Apostles Has Just Been Found, Archaeologists Say Archaeologists believe Julias, the home of Jesus' apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip, was located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee Noa Shpigel and Ruth Schuster Aug 08, 2017 10:45 AM Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Celebrating 2,000 Years, Tiberias' History Is Buried Under Garbage"Ancient bathhouse under weeds, beer bottles covering a mosaic. Archaeological sites around the city could have been tourist attractions, but many are abandoned and neglected" By Noa Shpigel Aug 06, 2017Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 Galilee Excavation Reveals 2,000 Year-Old Stone Vessel Workshop By JNi.Media - 18 Av 5777 – August 10, 2017 "A rare workshop for the production of chalkstone vessels, dated to the Roman period, is currently being excavated at Reina in Lower Galilee. The excavations are unearthing a small cave in which archaeologists have found thousands of chalkstone cores and other types of production waste, including fragments of stone mugs and bowls in various stages of production."Continued Also @ The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post Israel News Archeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Rare Stone Vessel Used in Jewish Rituals By Daniel K. Eisenbud August 10, 2017 10:35 "This discovery provides fascinating evidence of ritual purity in the daily lives of Galilean Jews during the time of Jesus," the Israel Antiquities Authority said. Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 Citron pollen trapped in plaster in a First Temple palace near Jerusalem was first evidence of citron in Mediterranean As Italy’s Citron Crop Fails, an Archaeologist Looks to Fruit’s 2,500-Year History in Israel After a disastrous frost that looks to wipe out the majority of this year’s etrog yield, Chabad Jewry braces for a crisis ahead of the Feast of TabernaclesBY Amanda Borschel-Dan August 9, 2017, 10:44 pm Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 More on (@ National Geographic): The Real Story Behind the "House of Jesus' Apostles" Discovery "Did archaeologists just find the home of biblical disciples Peter and Andrew?" By Kristin Romey PUBLISHED AUGUST 7, 2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 Was Khirbet Qeiyafa a Judahite City? The Case against It An article by Nadav Na'aman Journal of Hebrew ScripturesVolume 17, Article 7 DOI:10.5508/jhs.2017.v17.a7 Continued H/t: BiblePlacesBlog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 This Amazing Project Invites The Public To Help Unlock Medieval Jewish Documents By Avital Chizhik-GoldschmidtAugust 11, 2017 "One group of Judaica scholars is taking crowdsourcing to a new level. In a new initiative to unlock the thousands of parchment fragments from the Cairo Geniza, scholars are inviting the public to help scholars sort document fragments — all online, as part of a project by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Princeton Geniza Project, the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library." Continued H/t: PaleoJudaica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Akeldama, the Field of Blood (Acts 1)Posted on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 at 12:22 PM "The Bible tells us of Judas’ remorse and subsequent suicide after his betrayal of Jesus (Matt. 27:3-10). Afterward the book of Acts continues with the selection of an apostle to take the place of Judas. To lead into that topic Peter reviewed what had happened:"Continued H/t: BiblePlacesBlog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Roman Emperor Nerva’s Reform of the Jewish Tax How Jews and Christians became further differentiated under Nerva Nathan T. Elkins • 05/22/2017 This Bible History Daily article was originally published in 2014.—Ed."The inhabitants of ancient Judaea were rarely the subject of images on the imperial coinage struck at Rome. The most famous examples, of course, are coins from early in the reign of Roman Emperor Vespasian (69–79 C.E.) that depict a palm tree under which is a personification of Judaea mourning; ..."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hebrew U Launches World’s Largest Jewish Art Index By JNi.Media - 18 Av 5777 – August 10, 2017 "The Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem launched the world’s largest online database of Jewish art today at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 The Water System at Megiddo Posted on August 17, 2017 "Ancient people built their villages and towns near water sources. If there was not a spring at the base of the hill where they settled they would need to dig a well, a shaft, or a tunnel to reach the water source. Many visitors to Israel have made their way through the water system at Megiddo. Professor David Ussishkin, who is able to include Megiddo among his numerous excavations, says, ..."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 3,200-year-old Pagan Ritual Hall Found in Israel, Archaeologists Confirm "Rare masks, cultic tableware, a massebah and figurines bolster the theory of pagan worship at Tel Burna over three millennia ago, says excavator" By Philippe Bohstrom Aug 23, 2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 Emperor Justinian Mosaic Inscription Unearthed near Damascus Gate By JNi.Media - 1 Elul 5777 – August 23, 2017 "A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor, with a Greek inscription, was discovered this summer following groundwork for Partner communications cable infrastructures near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 Did King Solomon Trade with India? On the possible whereabouts of Ophir and Tarshish, and how to get there by ship from Palestine. OBSERVATION - PHILOLOGOS AUG. 24 2017Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 4,300-Year-Old Statue Head Depicts Mystery Pharaoh By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | August 30, 2017 07:38am ET "A sculpture of an unknown Egyptian pharaoh's head, found at the ancient city of Hazor in Israel, dates back around 4,300 years, to a time when Egyptians were building pyramids. The sculpture was smashed apart around 3,300 years ago, possibly after an Israeli force led by King Joshua destroyed the city, researchers have found." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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