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 | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
The story of Noah’s Ark may be the best known of all Biblical tales. The destruction of a sinful world by an angry God, the cleansing waters of the flood and the redemption of mankind through one righteous man continues to fascinate young and old alike. With the...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
The ancient woodwork has perished, the metal has been stripped from the walls,” Sir Leonard Woolley wrote in 1936. “The ruins which excavation lays bare are but skeletons from which the skin and flesh have gone, and to re-create them in imagination we must use such...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Pope John Paul II is planning a millennium pilgrimage in 2000 that will take him to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Sinai—and Iraq! Why Iraq? Because that is where the patriarch Abraham was born—at Ur. But wait a minute. The Pope may be going to the wrong Ur. Perhaps he should...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Books in Brief–Historical Essays; The Early Biblical Period, Philip J. King, Biblical Archaeology Review (12:6), Nov/Dec 1986 This new volume appears at a time of explosive activity in the study of ancient Israelite history. Indeed, it is only the latest of at...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Sumerian “Firsts,” Biblical Archaeology Review (10:5), Sep/Oct 1984 For thousands of years, the Sumerians were a forgotten people. No book recorded their achievements; no spade unearthed their treasures. The Sumerians had passed out of history, until, in the...
