by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Babylonian Liver Omens- The Chapters Manzazu, Padanu and Pan Takalti of the Babylonian Extispicy Series Mainly from Aššurbanipal’s Library (Ulla Koch-Westenholz CNI Publications 25) The administration was determined to go to war, but it lacked the necessary public...
by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Clay Model of a Sheep’s Liver This Old Babylonian tablet in the shape of a sheep’s liver is divided into sections that are annotated for the use of a diviner. The anatomically detailed model—more accurate than later, medieval European ones—was probably...
by hadassah | Jan 13, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Hieroglyphics Tablet from Hazor A clay tablet with hieroglyphic was found at Tel Hazor in 2007. Although the hieroglyphics have not yet been deciphered, it has been determined that the tablet teaches how to forecast the future with an animal liver, a practice...
by hadassah | Jan 13, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Cuneiform Tablets from Hazor In the 1960s a youngster stumbled across a small piece of a broken tablet at Hazor. The cuneiform text impressed into the clay proved to be part of an ancient foreign language dictionary—translating terms from Akkadian, the...
by hadassah | Jan 13, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Solomon’s City Rises from the Ashes The fiery destruction of Hazor, the Book of Joshua recounts, was the final episode in the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Once Joshua burned down this key city—“the head of all those kingdoms,” as Joshua 11-10 puts it—the land of...
by hadassah | Jan 13, 2009 | Judges, What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Excavating Hazor, Part Two, Amnon Ben-Tor and Maria Teresa Rubiato, BAR 25:03, May-Jun 1999 Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City? A fierce conflagration marked the end of Canaanite Hazor. Across the site, a thick layer of ashes and charred wood—in...
