Resource Manager Posted December 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2017 Jerusalem Post Israel News MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DISCOVER CLAY LAMP FROM HELLENISTIC PERIOD BY DANIEL K. EISENBUD DECEMBER 12, 2017 11:25 "Second century BCE relic dates to Judah Maccabee’s battles against ruler of Antiochus."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2017 NewsInside Israel Ancient Jewish Town from Hasmonean Period Discovered "2,100-year-old Jewish community found in Judea, dating back to Hasmonean period, 600 years earlier than previous finds at the site." Contact Editor Mordechai Sones, 13/12/17 12:16 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2017 5,000-Year-Old Cosmetics, Jewelry Show Rise of Ancient Jericho Eyeliner and scarabs from Egypt discovered at one of the world's oldest cities show its growing power and reach, say archaeologists. By Philippe Bohström PUBLISHED DECEMBER 19, 2017 "The city of Jericho was wealthy and well connected long before its walls came tumbling down in an attack that has been associated with a well-known passage in the Bible."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2017 Jerusalem Post Israel News ARTIFACTS FROM 1,500-YEAR-OLD MONASTERY AND CHURCH UNEARTHED IN BEIT SHEMESH BY DANIEL K. EISENBUD DECEMBER 20, 2017 11:28 "Well-preserved Byzantine-era colored mosaic floors and imported marble antiquities discovered." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Jerusalem’s Garbage How garbage disposes of the idea that the Temple once stood over the Gihon Spring. Leen Ritmeyer - Posted on December 29, 2017 - Categories Jerusalem "No, Jerusalem is not garbage, but the ancient 2000-year old garbage dump discovered in 2013-2014 on the eastern slope of the City of David refutes recent suggestions about a different location of the Temple in Jerusalem. I am often asked what I think about the idea that the Temple stood in the City of David and not on the Temple Mount. This was first suggested by Ernest Martin and then followed by Bob Cornuke, Marilyn Sams and others, and this idea has found credence in some circles, mainly in the United States."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Archaeologists Find Gate to Headquarters of Famed “Ironclad” Sixth Legion in Northern Israel "Inscriptions on the find imply the gate could be part of a dedication or it could list the names of the legion’s commanders or war heroes" Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Remains of Royal Egyptian Artefacts Uncovered in Tel Al-Pharaeen 1/01/2018 06:00:00 PM "An Egyptian excavation mission has discovered remains of mud-brick walls and several artefacts that can be dated to different periods of the ancient Egyptian era as well as four furnaces from the Late Period (664-332 BCE) during excavation work carried out in Tel Al-Pharaeen archaeological site known as “ancient Buto” in the Kafr Al-Sheikh Governorate." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Seal of Jerusalem Governor Found Leen Ritmeyer Posted on January 1, 2018 Categories Jerusalem "The Jerusalem Posts reports today: The new find supports the biblical rendering of the existence of a governor of Jerusalem 2,700 years ago, says archeologist."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Nilometers in the Land of Israel JANUARY 3, 2018, 4:04 PM "Years of drought have lowered the surface of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), Israel’s main water source. The Dead Sea is rapidly shrinking, and the Jordan River is drying up, as the result of climate change, growing populations and the increasing use of its water for agriculture. Israeli meteorologists predicted in early December 2017 that the coming months would be drier than an average winter. The water level in the Sea of Galilee stood at 703 feet (214 meters) below sea level, several feet (about a meter) below the point at which ecologists predict damage to the ecosystem and water quality."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Early Jewish Magic By Yuval HaririJanuary 2018 "Judaism has a rich tradition of magic going back over two thousand years. But what is magic really intended to do? Jewish magic is based on a belief in human power to affect reality and change it by means of words and rites. In that, it resembles the normative Jewish view, which places prayer rituals at the core of religious worship. Both are rooted in a worldview that acknowledges the creative power of words (“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light”) and their potential to be manipulated by humans. And both ritually use words to turn to supernatural powerful entities in order to attain desired changes in reality."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Of interest: DNA and the Origin of the Jews Is there a genetic marker for cohanim (priests)? Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from Khazars? Why is there such a close genetic connection between Samaritans and Jews, especially cohanim? A look at what genetic testing can tell us about Jews. Prof. Steven J. Weitzman "In premodern times, the question of where Jews come from had an obvious answer: The Bible tells the story of Israel’s origins beginning with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, moving on to Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and continuing on the conquest of Canaan, the judges, the monarchy, the exile, and so on. Modern scholars have come to challenge that narrative, however, just as scientists began to challenge the creation story in Genesis, looking beyond the biblical account for an explanation for how the Jews came to be."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA RESEARCHERS DECIPHER MYSTERIOUS DEAD SEA SCROLL BY DANIEL K. EISENBUD JANUARY 21, 2018 16:32 “An important peculiarity of the present discovery is the fact that the [Qumran] sect followed a 364-day calendar." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Could This Newfound Cave Hold More Dead Sea Scrolls? By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | January 22, 2018 06:22pm ET "Archaeologists are excavating a newfound cave in Qumran, with the hope of finding new Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 12 caves and date back around 2,000 years and consist of thousands of fragments from more than 900 manuscripts, including numerous copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible. The scrolls were written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, but who, exactly, wrote them is a matter of debate among scholars. Many experts believe that members of a Jewish sect called the Essenes wrote the scrolls at Qumran. Eleven of the Dead Sea Scroll caves were discovered between 1947 and 1956 near the newfound cave, in what is now the West Bank, near the shore of the Dead Sea."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Trumpeting on the Temple Mount How a Hebrew inscription blasts the Temple Mount deniersLeen Ritmeyer January 24, 2018 "One of the most interesting and important discoveries at the Temple Mount Excavations directed from 1968 till 1978 by the late Prof. Benjamin Mazar, was made at the southwest corner in 1969. After digging through Umayyad, Byzantine and Roman destruction levels, a large corner parapet stone was found lying on its side on the paving stones of the Herodian street, about 1.5 meter (5 feet) from the southwest corner. A niche was cut out of the inner slope of the stone on its southern side. Above this niche was an inscription written in Hebrew, which reads (from right to left) “l’bet hatqia l’hakh . . ." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 The Kh. el-Maqatir Ram’s Head: Evidence of the Israelite Destruction of Ai? Technical - Jan 22, 2018 - by Brian N Peterson PhD "ABR Associate and Khirbet el-Maqatir dig staff member, Dr. Brian Peterson, recently had a detailed article published in the Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin (Vol. 61, 2016) about the ram's head figurine his team discovered. The full article, "The Kh. el-Maqatir Ram’s Head: Evidence of the Israelite Destruction of Ai?" (PDF) can be downloaded here:"Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Of interest: Yael and the Subversion of Male Leaders in Judges "The Canaanite general Sisera is killed by Yael in her tent but in an older version of the story, he died in battle at the hands of the Israelite general, Barak. The story was revised as part of a broader theme in Judges, to weaken the image of male military heroes through women and give the power to God." Prof. Jacob L. Wright Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Imaging Technology Reveals Birth of Athena on 2,300-Year-Old Shard from Galilee Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is an increasingly common technique in the tool chests of today's archaeologists By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN 22 January 2018, 10:37 pm Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 Heavy Rain Unearths Ancient Graves in Backyard in Gaza Local archaeologists believe the site is about 2,000 years old, dating back to the Roman era By AP 27 January 2018, 8:00 am Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 First Temple-Era Relics of Possible Royal Estate Found in Jerusalem Hills Authorities inaugurate 'extraordinarily beautiful' new site at Ein Hanya, where archaeologists reveal plethora of findings By MICHAEL BACHNER 31 January 2018, 4:13 pm Continued Also @:Mystery as Archaeologists Discover 1,500-Year-Old Pools and 'Magnificent' Fountain Adorned with Images of Nymphs at Ancient Christian Site in Jerusalem Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 New Year for the Trees, New Life for Ancient Forgotten Beams January 31, 2018 "Happy Tu B’Shevat! Today is the Jewish new year for the trees which is celebrated annually on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. Customs vary, but many Jews will eat a new fruit they haven’t tried before or eat one (or all!) of the seven species described as plentiful in the land of Israel (wheat, barley, grapes (vines), figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates (honey) (Deut. 8:8)). Growing up in America, my family often sent money to plant trees in Israel through our synagogue and I’m pretty sure we read, “The Lorax” every year as well." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 The Antonia Fortress A guard to the real Temple Mount in Jerusalem Leen Ritmeyer February 05, 2018 “One of my readers, Daniel Wright, commented on my previous blog: “Once again Leen, I would like to thank you for addressing the persistent “temple location” confusion. I frequently get questioned as to my point of view on the “City of David” location theory. Directing the inquisitive to your blog is a real asset. It is important and useful to remind readers that you worked directly for Dr. Benjamin Mazar and you were also a contemporary of Ernest L. Martin, as both of you were there in Jerusalem during the same timeframe. Your personal involvement with Mazar’s team as these things were discovered, and your role as archaeological illustrator make you a primary authority on this topic. I am grateful that you continue to publish materials that address this needless controversy.” Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 Rare Greek Inscription and Colorful 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Uncovered at Caesarea Discovered during excavations under a commercial structure from the Byzantine period, the finding is hailed for its exceptionally high quality By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN 8 February 2018, 12:39 pm Continued As @: WATCH: RARE 1,800-YEAR-OLD ROMAN MOSAIC UNCOVERED IN ISRAELBY DANIEL K. EISENBUD FEBRUARY 8, 2018 10:35 "Discovery of 1,800-year-old antiquity part of largest conservation and reconstruction project ever undertaken in Israel." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2018 More on: FEBRUARY 9, 2018 / 3:46 AM / 2 DAYS AGO Israeli Archaeologists Unearth 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Reuters Staff 2 MIN READ Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2018 Ancient Coin Profiles – Goddess Tanit on Carthaginian Gold & Silver 1 1/2 Shekel By CoinWeek IQ - February 8, 2018 Overview: Carthage "At its peak, the ancient North African city of Carthage rivaled the Eternal City of Rome for military and economic control of the western Mediterranean Sea. Today, its ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the suburbs of the Tunisian capital."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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