by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | Jews in the Persian Period, Persian Period
Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine? Bezalel Porten, Biblical Archaeology Review (21:3), May/Jun 1995. Was the Ark of the Covenant taken from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem during the reign of King Manasseh in the seventh century B.C.E. to an island called...
by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | Persian Period
Excavating an Ancient Merchantman, Elisha Linder, Biblical Archaeology Review (18:6), Nov/Dec 1992. The Ma’agan Micha’el shipwreck A chance discovery of a 2,400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Kibbutz Ma’agan Micha’el, 20 miles south of Haifa, has...
by hadassah | Jan 12, 2009 | Persian Period
Yahud Stamps, c. 539 BCE Excavations between 1926 and 1935 by Badé at Mizpah, Tell en Nasbeh. Stratum 2 begins shortly after 586 BCE and ends about 400 BCE. The passage of power from the Babylonians to the Persians is recorded in two nondescript fragments of...
by hadassah | Dec 31, 2008 | Jews of Egypt, Persian Period
The Passover Papyrus from Elephantine, 419 BCE Celebrating the Exodus in the Land of the Exodus “festival of the unleavened bread” Date- 419 BCE Current Location- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (P. 13464) Language and Script- Aramaic;...
by hadassah | Dec 31, 2008 | Persian Period
Cyrus Cylinder, c. 535 BCE The King of Persia Defeats Babylon “the gods, who resided in them, I brought back to their places, and caused them to dwell in a residence for all time.” Date- c. 535 BCE Current Location- British Museum, London, England...
by hadassah | Dec 30, 2008 | Persian Period
Artaxerxes I, 465-424 BCE Artaxerxes commissioned Ezra, a Jewish priest-scribe, by means of a letter of decree, to take charge of the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the Jewish nation. A copy of this decree may be found in Ezra 7-13-28- 13 Now I decree that...
