by hadassah | Oct 13, 2015 | Early Arab Period
New analysis of a previously known scrap of a Biblical text provides fascinating insight into the formation of the Hebrew Bible. Known as the Ashkar-Gilson Hebrew Manuscript #2, the text is a remnant of a Torah scroll from the seventh or eighth century C.E. and...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Early Arab Period
Early Arab Period, 632-1099 Highlights- Dome of the Rock, 688 Jerusalem Coin – Muhammad, Messenger of God, 632 Aleppo Codex, c. 930 Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1009 The caliph Omar, as we have seen, was careful not to harm Jerusalem. This...
by hadassah | Dec 24, 2008 | Early Arab Period
Uamayyad Dinars Uamayyad Dinar Hoard Hoard of Umayyad Dinars found at Capernaum in 1983. Removal of a paving stone from the inner courtyard of a Byzantine house at Capernaum revealed the cache of gold. Valued today at $250,000, these 282 dinars were minted in...
by hadassah | Dec 18, 2008 | Early Arab Period
Aleppo Codex. Photo by Ardon Bar Hama. The Aleppo Codex is a full manuscript of the entire Bible, which was written in about 930. For more than a thousand years, the manuscript was preserved in its entirety in important Jewish communities in the Near East-...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2008 | Early Arab Period
Samaritan Ten Commandments In 1943 Israeli archaeologist Jacob Kaplan learned of a marble plaque with writing on it that was embedded in the ground in an Arab courtyard before the threshold to one of the rooms. The owner told Kaplan that the 22-by-24-inch plaque had...
by hadassah | Nov 27, 2008 | Early Arab Period
First Map of the Holy Land Close-up, showing Jerusalem The First Map of The Holy Land and The First Modern Printed Map Holy Land, Brandis, Lucas. Map Of Palestine. Lübeck- Brandis, 1475, from Rudimentum Novitiorum sive Chronicarum Historiarum Epitome, 1475. In 1475...
