Who are the Girgashites? One of the most difficult Bible verses to interpret is Genesis 15: 18-21: “In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying:...
Big Pic: Close-Up of Latest Shroud of Turin Claim Discovery News, Nov. 24, 2009 The latest claim by Vatican researcher Barbara Frale that faint writing on the...
Greetings, One of the more curious, if not baffling, statements found in the Tanakh concerns Jeroboam's installation of the "two calves [of] gold", placing one...
Hi all, you may remember me talking with John C about a recent book edited by Hess and others, "Critical issues in Early Israelite History". Well, I have now...
Did Jesus REALLY stay in England? A new film claims he built a church in Somerset and learnt maths from the Druids The Daily Mail [UK], 27th November 2009 ...
Hi all, This has no relevance at all to recent threads, but is something we talked about long long ago (I'm sure John C will remember, and perhaps others too)....
http://www.mechanical-translation.org/ <http://www.mechanical-translation.org/> Discovered this about 2 years ago and changed my life forever more. It is...
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Hi Richard Thanks for the images, they were both revealing and confounding. I do find it odd that there's no 'S/door latch' in Hoch's list of Semitic Phonemes...
Death certificate is imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican scholar The Times [UK], November 21, 2009 A Vatican scholar claims to have deciphered the...
Archaeologists publish first map of contested sites in Middle East UCLA Newsroom, November 20, 2009 A team of archaeologists from UCLA, USC, Israel and...
Evidence for kings David and Solomon The Times [UK], November 16, 2009 "King David and King Solomon lived merry, merry lives, With many, many concubines and...
Hi,i have a few questions about divine names and i hope some one from the group can fill in the blanks. Egyptian document:EBERS papyrus , recorded the ...
Dr David Lipovitch posed a question that ask's whether Aegean populations can be identified in the Near East by their diet. This falls in line with the general...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_italy_shroud_of_turin Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer Ariel David,...
This is all I know. However, it is of great intelligence for me about communications in the Ancient Middle East. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadad ...
Just when you think you've seen it all.... On page 18 of the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review we find this notice titled: SCROLL SCHOLAR's...
Greetings ... It occurs to me that all the earliest documentary finds which carry representations of the word Israel are Egyptian, and that there seems in the...
Continuing Sagas: Archaeologist Says Arabs Broke Temple Mount Status Quo Arutz Sheva [Israel], 11/04/09 In wake of the claims that Israel is excavating under...
I finally have been able to consider Strong's Concordance "user friendly". It's taken me 15 years. But it took me 15 years to get "user friendly" with the...
Egyptians conflicted over preserving Jewish past Associated Press, October 24 2009 The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews' Quarter, but no Jews live ...
Messages from the past become easy to read The Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2009 Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down...
The Whisper of Tombs, by Dr. Zahi Hawass Asharq Al-Awsat [UK], 29/10/2009 In my opinion, the Israelite Exodus from Egypt will remain a point of controversy...
Tomb Shows Peru's Moche Were Christ's Contemporaries Latin American Herald Tribune [Venezuela], October 27,2009 A tomb at the Sipan archaeological site in...
Israel Plans Major Excavation at Western Wall Arutz Sheva [Israel], Oct/23/09 Israel is planning a major archaeological dig under the Western Wall (Kotel)...
After reading opinions about the Tetragrammaton, I'm of the opinion that all that is known is that it was considered a "sacred name". I'm not sure it was ever...
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