by hadassah | Nov 27, 2024 | The Exodus
From Egypt to Sinai, Christine Hayes This lecture traces the account of the Exodus (and the origin of the Passover festival as a historicization of older nature festivals) and Israel’s liberation from bondage under Pharaoh. The story reaches its climax...
by hadassah | Nov 27, 2024 | The Exodus
Shiloh After the Exodus, Joshua brought the Ark of the Covenant to Shiloh, where the Tabernacle was built. Ultimately, David brought the Ark from Kiryat-Yearim (Givah) to Jerusalem, where it stayed until the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple in 586...
by hadassah | Nov 19, 2024 | Roman Period I
A Sacrifice Vessel with Two Doves A fragment of a limestone vessel, found in the fill near the southern wall of the Western Wall, bears the inscribed word KRBN (korban), which means “sacrifice.” Two crudely drawn birds, identified as pigeons or doves, also...
by hadassah | Nov 19, 2024 | Roman Period I
Hillel the Elder Hillel (also known as Hillel the Elder) is one of the best-known and beloved sages of the Talmud. He lived during the last century BCE and served as head of the Sanhedrin, the ancient rabbinic tribunal. He was the founder of Beit Hillel (the...
by hadassah | May 6, 2024 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Valley of the Kings, 1539-1075 BCE Hidden behind the Theban Hills, on the West Bank of the Nile, lies the Valley of the Kings (Wadi el-Muluk in Arabic), a limestone valley where tombs were built for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom during the...
by hadassah | Nov 8, 2023 | Bible and Beyond
Ottoman Conquest, 1517-1699 Highlights- Rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem, 1538-1541 King James Bible, 1611 Nicolas Poussin’s Destruction of Jerusalem, 1625-26 The Ottoman star was very much in the ascendant by the time Selim I reached the throne. (“Ottoman”...