Stephen, As the latest DSD will probably not reach CUL shelves for some time could you perhaps tell us whether 1. the authors suggest a source for the gall...
David Stacey on the subject of dams in antiquity writes "If it was all so easy why didn't every Tom, Dick or Harry build dams all over the country?" The answer...
The Nabateans built Shivtah near the Sinai border and other settlements of the Negev in the first century B.C. There were dams and dam terraces constructed...
David Hall
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Mar 1, 2009 11:17 am
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Please don't post links saying, in effect, "Here's an interesting article" without saying what the article is about. -- Peter T. Daniels...
... "Please note that I'm not looking for speculation about what might have happened if someone had disciples. I'm looking for actual evidence of that those...
... It was? Can you provide some documentation for this claim? Jeffrey -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. Chicago, Illinois e-mail...
Well Joe, that's odd - there are no major dams at Masada or Jericho where you say they are necessary, and in fact the only two major Second Temple dams are in...
Recently I posted information from a report by A. Mazar that at the beginning of Iron II there were no walls at Beth Shean, it was an unfortified city. ...
David Hall
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Mar 3, 2009 8:46 am
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Quite close to Qumran, is the Buqe'ah Valley which has substantial evidence of intensive agricultural production including dams, terraces, and walls built for...
I have now been able to read the DSD article. I have a couple of questions that someone on the list might be able to answer. The researchers say that in their...
Most of these dams are, are they not, on a fairly minor scale and would not have had to withstand the sort of terrific force present in flash floods as they...
If parchment was being made somewhere, wouldn't there be evidence of flocks and herds there? Wouldn't there be evidence of the chemicals involved? And I don't...
Re flocks:- Seasonal flocks around Qumran. May I draw your attention to my article in BAIAS 26 (2008). Parchment and leather both start off as animal skins but...
Daniels asks: " If parchment was being made somewhere, wouldn't there be evidence of flocks and herds there? 'A few yrs back, after listening to all the...
Good Morning Barrage dams feeding sluices and watering fields were a bit of a "doodle" by even 1200 BC in Yemen. If you look around Saba and Qataban evidence...
What is a "seasonal" flock, and if you had one, why would you slaughter it for parchment? What is your evidence for the production of either parchment or...
Dear all, Can anyone cite for me the best preserved and most intelligible examples of (or at least a good secondary sources on) Mesopotamian tablets of various...
Readers interested in how the media at times exploits the profession as well as how colleagues exploit both the profession and the public via the media...
Of course barrage dams existed in Judea. The point that I'm making, if it needs spelling out, is that all of the major dams requiring considerable know-how...
Ovi-caprids & bovids (sheep, goats & cattle) are not usually housed in the NE. But there can be a variety of reasons, lambing/calving, protection from...
We found the liver fluke, sheep/goats. There are wild boar in the oasis's I'm told but the area is not hospitable to swine in terms of large numbers. Their...
... If you haven't the foggiest what BAIAS is perhaps it would be more courteous to find out and to read my article in it that answers most of your questions. ...
That makes a lot of sense; Qumran is not cattle country by a long shot. Wild pigs are surprisingly common, though not numerous, throughout the NE. All they...
Well, I guess the point I wish to make is that a truly major water project, such as the aqueduct system at Caesarea or the Marib dam, certainly would be state...
"February 2009 Museums in Gaza The Gaza Strip is an area full of relics of past Mediterranean cultures: Egyptian, Punic, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and...
There is a parking lot near Sde Boker within view of the Nabatean acropolis of Avdat. Down the trail is a cistern carved limestone on the side of a ravine....
David Hall
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Mar 3, 2009 7:44 pm
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... An article about the Gaza museum dated August 2008, primarily an interview with Mr. Khoudary but also including comments from Trudy Dothan, is available...
I bracketed the pigs because, at this date, it's rather unlikely that they might have used pig parchment, especially for holy books. Do any chemical analyses...
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