I'm pleased to announce publication of the first full length biography of archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon by Miriam Davis, a historian at Delta State University....
Well, if we are discussing Saccharomyces cerevisiae, they were eukaryotes (like us) and we would have had a common ancestor with baker's yeast about 1.6 to 2.1...
Please note that this position is currently being held by an Egyptologist and that the department is specifically seeking applicants in the ancient near east....
No doubt, you're right, Jack � the claim of tribal membership over a period of more than a millennium is silly (at least if we are not talking about names...
... The picture is also published in Hestrin and Dayagi-Mendels's book on seals, in the first page following the copyright notice, although the colors are...
Dear Robert, or Victor, if I could impose just one more time on this question. I managed to obtain a facsimile of the text in question. Would you be so kind as...
Has anyone else noticed the similarity in design (and perhaps lettering) to the recently discovered Rephaihu (ben) Shalem seal of a seal pictured among others...
At 04:24 AM 3/2/2008, Yitzhak Sapir wrote: [...] ... There is no such thing as "a simple space filler". In order for something to have no immediate meaning...
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Jack Kilmon wrote: I can't wait to see the oher one. These City of David excavations are very exciting and producing artifacts from a period we know so little...
... Apparently, neither. The letter apparently refers to a report that the Hittite king ("The Sun, the Great King") would like to have verified. The relevant...
Why is Refael more "archaic" than Refayahu? It's simply a different theophoric element unless you claim that all YHW-s replace 'l which would be a strange...
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Robert asked me to post this on the blog (since it includes a photo) which I was more than happy to do. ...
... I have appreciated very much the analysis by Bob Whiting of the letter RS 34.129 and found it very stimulating, mainly because it changes substantially the...
Wow, Victor. You miss breakfast or something? I consider the -el theophoric more Canaanite and older. No, all yhw theophorics, prefixed or suffixed, did not...
... It is true that one sometimes encounters preterites of (w)a$a:bu that need to be translated as statives, so this is not definitive. ... The first sign of...
... I don't see it so it's not there? In any case, p, k, and t were probably aspirated from very early times. There was no non-aspirated p in Hebrew and in a...
Is the grandpa seal real? I've no idea, but.... If the seal from the collection is not provenienced, and therefore may be (or is even likely to be, given...
... And even assuming it's real, how do we know it's grandpa's seal? Maybe it's the son's seal? My immediate thought was that the answer to this question was ...
Dear Eliot, I do not agree with you that this is not an acceptable approach. If one starts with the known - the provenanced piece from the legal excavation in...
The museum at Kibbutz Ayelet Ha-Shachar, located opposite Tel Hazor, is experiencing difficulties, not only as a result of a recent earthquake that damaged...
I don’t want to get into the whole topic of provenanced vs unprovenanced artifacts and antiquities markets, etc. nor do I know much about mineralogy but if...
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Greetings, All! I have come across what strikes me as a rather odd depiction of women and their status in Sumer. Since I am more familiar with later periods,...
... From: "eliot braun" <eliotbraun@...> To: <ANE-2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:51 AM Subject: Re: [ANE-2] Deutsch on the latest...
What's the difference between "Yeho" and "Yahu"? Both are YHW. Yitzhak may have been noting a difference in occurrence between YH and YHW, which is not the...
Were it possible to verify the authenticity of the seal, then that would be a good approach. However, I think no one will ever be able to do so, and so you...
