Main Page Educational Resource Guides Educational Resource Guides from Steve Israel, Exile 1492- Unit I, The Story of the Jews in Spain (workbook), ed. Michael Glatzer, Ben-Zvi Institute, 1991- Age One- Under Muslim Rule Educational Resource Guides from Steve Israel, Exile 1492- Unit II, The Sephardi Diaspora (workbook), ed. Michael Glatzer, Ben-Zvi Institute, 1991- Introduction- […]
Main Page Why teach with technology The Secretary’s Conference on Educational Technology-1999 Rationale for Using Technology and Multimedia Applications in the Classroom How to teach with technology The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (especially these articles- Newspapers as teaching tools, Television in the classroom, Using classroom projection, Evaluating online resources, Wikis, Preparing presentations for educational use) […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls The study of the “desert motif” in the Bible has played an important role in Biblical research since K. Budde introduced it into the discussion. Budde’s rather cautious, and fairly balanced, presentation of the “desert” as a formative factor in what he termed “The Nomadic Ideal in the Old Testament,”1 unloosed […]
Overview The Parts of the Whole, Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. Primary sources Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 14b-15a- The Order of Scripture Mishnah Yadayim 3-5- The Debate Over the Biblical Canon Tosefta Yadayim 2-14- The Biblical Canon and Divine Inspiration Josephus, Against Apion I, 37-43- Authenticity of Scripture Secondary sources Synopsis of the […]
Abegg, M. G. “Messianic Hope and 4Q285; A Reassessment.” JBL 113 (1994):81-91. Abramsky, S. Bar-Kokhba: Nesi Yisra’el. Tel Aviv: Massadah, 1961. Aharoni, Y. “Expedition B.” In Judean Desert Caves: Survey and Excavations, 1960, 11-24. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1961. Albeck, C. Das Buch der Jubiläen und die Halacha. Berlin, 1934. Albright, W. F. “New Light […]
Bible and Beyond Where Was the Israelite Temple Located? Click here to view the original article. In case you think that only modern archaeologists are prone to controversy and disagreement, you should revisit the bitter dispute between James Fergusson and Charles Warren, two giants of their day, involving nothing less than the location of Solomon’s […]
Three of the five cities of the famous Philistine Pentapolis have long been known—Ashkelon, Ashdod and Gaza. A fourth, Ekron, has recently been confirmed by an inscription, locating it at modern Tel Miqne. Gath, the fifth, remains somewhat of a mystery. We believe we have found it—at Tell es-Safi, where we have been digging now […]
Judah picks a side … and loses Rarely do Biblical texts and extra-Biblical materials supplement one another so well as those that describe the last two decades before the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, which marked the end of the Judahite state in 586 B.C.E. As a result, we can reconstruct a kind of microanalytical study […]
Bible and Beyond Not without some justification did Absalom arrange the murder of his half-brother Amnon. Amnon had raped Absalom’s sister Tamar. Nonetheless, fratricide among King David’s sons was not to be countenanced. After Amnon’s murder, Absalom fled—to the land of Geshur (2 Samuel 13-20–38), where he knew he would be safe. His mother Maacah […]
Scholars struggle to interpret them A barracks or a bazaar? Could it be a temple? Or maybe a stable? Perhaps a storehouse? These are some of the suggestions regarding the function of a very important type of building that appears at one Israelite site after another for nearly 500 years. Yet we don’t know for […]