38 days ago by Charles

The Associates of Biblical Research are offering a free copy of the Jericho Unearthed DVD to anyone who joins as a member or upgrades their current membership. There are three levels of membership. 1. A Supporting Membership for $35 per year includes four issues of Bible and Spade, and a free copy o ...

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44 days ago by lukechandler

An upcoming report details new finds from as far back as the 10th-9th centuries B.C. in a salvage excavation on the eastern slope of the Temple Mount. Workers uncovered these pits along the Kidron Valley in 2009 and turned the excavation/processing over to the Temple Mount Sifting Project. A briefin ...

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44 days ago by acagle

Israeli archaeologists discover ancient clay seal in Jerusalem, suggest link to Temple ritual A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem’s Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists said Sunday. The coin-sized seal found near ...

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47 days ago by lukechandler

Recent digs next to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount have uncovered a small inscribed clay seal that seems to have been involved with worship at the 1st-century (New Testament-era) Temple. Its inscription has a shortened form of the name of God (“Yahweh”) in Aramaic. A first of its kind find, indicative of ...

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54 days ago by Charles

See this article on the recently published book Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schoyen Collection. The article contains a picture of a portion of a stele with a depiction of Nebuchanezzar II and the following translation. "I mobilized (all) countries everywhere, (each and) eve ...

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56 days ago by lukechandler

An old inscription receives a fresh look that may reveal evidence for the date of the Israelite Exodus. The biblical text indicates the Israelite exodus from Egypt took place in the fifteenth century (mid-1400′s) B.C., but some scholars argue for a date almost two centuries later based on some archa ...

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58 days ago by acagle

New book depicts forgery, intrigue, scandal among Victorian archaeologists “Cornerstone of Deception” (ISBN 1461052815), an historical account by Cheryl Simani, tells the story of Sir Henry Creswick Rawlinson and his assistant George Smith, dubbed the ‘patron saints of archaeology,’ and other early ...

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66 days ago by Lauren Axelrod

The infamous tale of the Israelites marching into Jericho, bringing forth fire to destroy the "City of Palm Trees”, as the Hebrew Bible professed, has wreaked havoc on the minds of biblical scholars alike. Did it happen? Is there archaeological evidence to prove the walls of Jericho did in fact succ ...

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75 days ago by acagle

Old coins force re-think on Jerusalem’s Western Wall Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday said they had found ancient coins that overturned widely-held beliefs about the origins of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest sites. For centuries, many thought the wall was built by King Herod – ...

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84 days ago by lukechandler

Todd Bolen commented with a series of questions on my previous post about the Qeiyafa cultic room from 2010. Todd wrote: 1. What parallels exist for this type of incense altar? 2. Was evidence of burning found in this room? 3. Did the drain in this room serve the cultic practice? If so, how? 4. Was ...

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