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”...
by hadassah | Dec 16, 2021 | Introduction
The Fertile Crescent and Egypt Courtesy of Biblical Archaeology Society What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Oct 19, 2021 | Introduction
Mad to See the Monuments, Steven W. Holloway, Bible Review (17:6) Dec. 2001. In August of 1847, the British Museum mounted the first major display of Assyrian antiquities in England. For a year, the public had pored over sketches from Austen Henry Layard’s...
by hadassah | Aug 19, 2018 | Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Isaiah 8:12 – Do not be in fear In the New Testament, Peter said there would be persecution but not to be afraid. “Do not fear their threats and do not be troubled” (1Pet 3:14). Having said that, he turns around in the next verse (1Pet 3:15). and...
by hadassah | Aug 19, 2018 | Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Isaiah 64: 4-9, Filthy Rags The statement, “All our righteousness is like filthy rags”, is found in the middle of a Biblical poem in Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4-9). The kingdom is upheld with righteousness A theme in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Isaiah...
