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
Was Noah’s Ark a Sewn Boat? Ralph K. Pedersen, Biblical Archaeology Review (31:3), May/Jun 2005 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...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Abraham’s Ur: Did Woolley Excavate the Wrong Place? Molly Dewsnap Meinhardt, Biblical Archaeology Review (26:1), Jan/Feb 2000 The ancient woodwork has perished, the metal has been stripped from the walls,” Sir Leonard Woolley wrote in 1936. “The ruins which...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Abraham’s Ur: Is the Pope Going to the Wrong Place? Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review (26:1), Jan/Feb 2000 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...
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...
