by hadassah | Mar 1, 2017 | Early Modern Period, Introduction to Cultural Trends, Persian Period
Minhagim, Venice, 1593, BM700.I818 1593, Fol. 73v – Purim. What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Dec 31, 2016 | Persian Period
A severe drought gripped Israel in 1985 and 1986. The winter rains barely came. Water was pumped from the Sea of Galilee to irrigate parched fields throughout the country. Predictably, the Kinneret (the Hebrew name of the freshwater inland lake also known as the Sea...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Persian Period
Persian Period, 537-332 BCE Highlights- Cyrus Cylinder, c. 535 BCE The Passover Papyrus from Elephantine, 419 BCE The Elephantine Temple, 407 BCE Yehud Coin 1, 4th century BCE The exile in Babylonia ended even more swiftly than it began. In 539 B.C.E. Cyrus the...
by hadassah | Jan 26, 2009 | Persian Period
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the lighthouse was built at the port of Alexandria, Egypt. Completed in about 279 B.C. by the second Ptolemy, the lighthouse soared to a height of 300 to 500 feet, the equivalent of a modern 40-story building; it was the...
by hadassah | Jan 26, 2009 | Persian Period
Jerusalem in the Persian Period I would like to take a somewhat radical, maximalist view of the size of Jerusalem when the Israelites (or, more precisely, the Judahites) returned from the Babylonian Exile and restored the city walls, as described in the Book of...
by hadassah | Jan 26, 2009 | Persian Period
Maagan Michael Ship In 1985 a kibbutznik named Ami Eshel of Kibbutz Ma‘agan Mikhael was diving not far from the beach of the kibbutz, 20 miles south of Haifa, when he noticed an unusual pile of rocks with a beam of blackened wood protruding from it. This was, it...
