According to the Babylonian Chronicles, Nebuchadrezzar lwft Baylon in the 10th month, travelled to Jerusalem and captured that city on the second day of the...
Chicago Public Radio's Worldview program has a series of very interesting broadcasts (also available as podcasts) on Geopolitics of Archaeology "We explore the...
I've just found this statement: Shasu of Yahweh is a term that appears in Egyptian inscriptions of the 18th and 19th Dynasties (c. 1540-1190 B.C.). One, found...
Jerusalem with all its cisterns proved no match for the mighty kingdoms along the rivers of Mesopotamia and Egypt. While Jerusalem started small, it grew in...
In reference to the posting quoted below, I'd like to add the following: That a clock is not working establishes nothing regarding the correctness or...
Tell Dan is about 40 kilometers or 25 miles from the coast near the foot of Mt. Hermon. According to the story of Joshua, Dan's inheritance was in the area...
I apologize, I cannot remember the name of the lecturer who was talking about Beth Shemesh. I ought not try to testify about the LBA & Iron Age I there as I...
Professor Blahoslav Hruška, today’s most famous Czech assyriologist, has died unexpectedly in the night of 26/27th of June, during a trip to Slovakia. Born...
Dear Colleagues, Two questions: 1. The OI of the University of Chicago is kind enough to offer free downloads of her publications. When I was taking the...
Khaled Nashef wrote: Just some comments on other things: 1) In general it is not feasible to use the books of Maccabees for comparisons, as the latter are more...
Hi, In one of the previous postings a brief mention was made of the "moon as a green cheese". Silly as it may sound, I would like to know how far back the...
This discussion has become overly personal and is closed. However, discussions of bias in scholarship are always open. Marc Cooper for the Moderators...
Dear ANErs, In the longest historical inscription of Tukulti-Ninurta I, it says: i-na MU-ma $i-a-ti 5 URU.DIDLI $ap-cu-ti $a2 KUR kat-mu-hi ma-ha-az...
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their suggestions, help, and comments. They were very helpful. I had an agenda in joining such a group...
The saying the moon was made of green cheese was circulated before the first man landed on the moon to take rock samples. The saying was based on the...
Seems the Canadians are finally getting wise about the antics of the 'Naked Arch' The question still remains why some of our colleagues haven't, which as the...
Dear Rose - you are starting in just the same way I did. I had no classes in Biblical studies and I had to learn everything on my own. So welcome to the...
Hello, All. My name is Rose, I'm 60, I live in rural upstate New York. Let me first say that I am completely out of my depth in this group. I am beginning to...
Hey everyone, You might have expected this from the note I asked on the 6th year, but I'm searching for references to cannibals (humans eating humans, or even...
Speaking of the goring ox, what do people these days think of J. J. Finkelstein's works on that subject, in part published posthumously by Ria Ellis? (Martha...
Dear Rose Lieberman, there is an other work of Mario Liverani that could be interesting for you ( in italian):  Oltre la Bibbia. Storia antica di Israele. ...
TAARII Newsletter Issue No. 3-1. Spring 2008 is available online free of charge in pdf format Contents: Remote Sensing of Cultural Heritage in Iraq: A Case...
 New Online Ancient Near East Monograph Series Established  The Society of Biblical Literature, in partnership with the Centro de Estudios de Historia del...
Shalom, today I was talking to the excavator of Tel Dan which begins tomorrow and mentioned to him that there has been alot of news about the site on ANE II...
