I am posting the following e-mail and course information about a new program that was received from Dr. Shlomo Bunimovitz, Chair, Department of Archaeology and...
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Regarding the item below about the finds from the Judean Desert on display at the IL museum, seems the Jewish Standard is a bit out of touch with things here...
The other day, I was looking at pl. 48 in the British Museum series part 40, "omens concerning the surdu bird (falcon)." When I looked up this word in the...
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For the entire the month of August, Eisenbrauns is running a sale on selected Akkadian and Sumerian reference tools. Discounts range from 10-30% on CAD, AHw,...
... From a trading perspective, that is the comings and goings of traders between Cilicia, Cyprus, Phoenicia & Palestine from the 16th century BCE to the 12th....
I've often pondered about the archaeological content of the caves in this article in Haaretz. However, as a devout acrophobe and with morre than a tinge of...
Jake Lauinger, epigrapher at Atchana, passes along this information: "Only the reverse of the new Atchana tablet is preserved. The obverse is fused to its...
A note regarding the discussion of cats fairly recently. Sue Groom in _Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew_ notes There is for instance no lexeme for...
We call those Anatolian folks who wrote in cuneiform "Hittites"; because of a mistaken guess (likely by A. H. Sayce?) that they were the people known in the...
Old Babylonian Letters from Tell Asmar By R. M. Whiting, Jr Assyriological Studies 22 Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1987 ISBN 0-918986-47-8 Pp. xiii + 177,...
I'm trying to help a friend here who asked me this question: "While visiting Turkey, I went to the ruins of an old temple to Hecate, in ancient Lagina. I...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing a novel that takes place during Josephus' sojourn in Rome as a (house?)guest of the Flavian dynasty. Would you please tell...
Greetings! In J. Flavius' "Antiquities fo the Jews" 5.1 he quotes, in Greek translation, a letter sent out by Xerxes with the Jews under Esdras demanding...
Aslihan Yener passes along news from the field via e-mail that they have "just discovered tablets in our Level VII Palace courtyard sounding. The quantity is...
While I'm not excluding the possibility of the broken vessels in this 'cache' having been used for cultic purposes, I would like to point out that the photo...
A closer look at the photo suggests two of the objects might be rattles, while one of the jars seems to be in the shape of a pomegranate. They are unusual...
Dear all, since the last tread on the Talpiot tomb raised the issue of (the lack of) primary evidence for Yeshua's very existence, I would be glad to know...
The new isue of JNES (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JNES/journal/contents/v66n3.html), includes the following editorial note: "Robert D. Biggs has been...
Thanks to Joseph Lauer for this mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/shows//English-show/highlights/EilatMazar.mp3 Arutz Sheva has an eight-minute English audio...
