by hadassah | Jan 13, 2009 | Judges, What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Excavating Hazor, Part Two, Amnon Ben-Tor and Maria Teresa Rubiato, BAR 25:03, May-Jun 1999 Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City? A fierce conflagration marked the end of Canaanite Hazor. Across the site, a thick layer of ashes and charred wood—in...
by hadassah | Jan 12, 2009 | Bible and Beyond, Judges
Ideology in Stone, Shlomo Bunimovitz and Avraham Faust, BAR 28:04, Jul-Aug 2002 Understanding the four-room house During the late 1920s, an expedition by the Pacific School of Religion discovered three houses of strikingly similar design at Tell en-Nasbeh,...
by hadassah | Jan 8, 2009 | Exodus, Judges
Biblical Megiddo Megiddo was one of the most important cities in Canaan and Israel in the biblical period. It was at Megiddo that the Canaanite city-states gathered to rebel against Egyptian domination. According to the Bible, Joshua captured Megiddo (Josh....
by hadassah | Jan 8, 2009 | Bible and Beyond, Judges
Silver Hoard, 11th-10th century BCE Phoenician 11th or 10th century BCE silver hoard found at Tel Dor in 1995 in a clay jar Among other things, the hoard tells us about the uses of money during this very early period—half a millennium before the introduction of...
by hadassah | Jan 7, 2009 | Bible and Beyond, Judges
The Many Masters of Dor, Part 1, Ephraim Stern, BAR 19:01, Jan-Feb 1993 When Canaanites Became Phoenician Sailors History runs deep at Tel Dor—45 feet deep to be exact! Layer upon layer of ancient cities, each built on the ruins of its predecessor, have formed...
by hadassah | Dec 31, 2008 | Bible and Beyond, Judges
Ramesses III and the Philistines, 1175 BCE The mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu depicts the victory over the Philistines who attempted to conquer Egypt- “They were coming forward toward Egypt . . . Their confederation was the Tjeker, Shekelesh,...
