by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Biblical Archaeology Review (10:5), Sep/Oct 1984 Diane Wolkstein’s Inanna–Queen of Heaven and Earth is a retelling, with commentary, of one of the major texts about the Sumerian goddess Inanna. This...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Woolley’s Ur Revisited, Richard L. Zettler, Biblical Archaeology Review (10:5), Sep/Oct 1984 Sir Leonard Woolley was, perhaps, the most famous archaeologist of his day. He was a man of enormous energy and a prodigious worker. Between 1907 and 1949 Woolley not...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Claude Frederic-Armand Schaeffer-Forrer (1898–1982): An Appreciation, James M. Robinson, Biblical Archaeology Review (9:5), Sep/Oct 1983 The death of Claude Schaeffer of cancer at the age of 84 in his home at St. Germain-en-Laye, France, on August 25, 1982,...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Ancient Jerusalem’s Rural Food Basket, Gershon Edelstein and Shimon Gibson, Biblical Archaeology Review (8:4), Jul/Aug 1982 Until recently, archaeology—or at least Near Eastern archaeology—has been regarded primarily as a historical science. Its focus was...
by hadassah | Mar 16, 2016 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Beer-sheba of the Patriarchs The findings of archaeologists sometimes seem to confirm the Biblical text. At other times, the excavation results present a problem. Perhaps the best known case of the latter is Jericho. Most scholars date the Israelite conquest of...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
What Abraham, Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known, c. 1850-1500 BCE Highlights- Semitic Tribe Entering Egypt, c. 1890 BCE Egyptian Curse Figurine, c.1800 BCEThe Story of Abraham, 18th century BCE It begins with a single individual. The history of the people of...
