by hadassah | Jan 8, 2009 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
10 Great Finds, Michael D. Coogan, Biblical Archaeology Review (21:3), May/Jun 1995 When BAR’s editors invited me to prepare a list of significant finds for the 20th anniversary issue, I thought the task would be easy. I had already been developing the...
by hadassah | Dec 25, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Weld-Blundell Prism, c. 1800 BCE Sumerian King List The Weld-Blundell Prism is a baked clay “prism” with four equal sides, each about 20cm high and 9cm wide. An unknown scribe recorded the names of the rulers of Akkad and Sumer (today’s...
by hadassah | Dec 24, 2008 | 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 | Dec 10, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Silver Calf, c. 1600–1550 BCE Location of the discovery of the silver calf. This silver calf was discovered at Ashkelon by Larry Stager in 1990, in the debris of the Middle Bronze II c. 1600–1550 BCE rampart. This religious icon, associated with the worship of...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Pyramids, c. 2500 BCE No geometrical form is more closely connected in our consiousness with Egypt than the pyramid. Its simplicity, the square plan and four inclined faces meeting at the summit, is immensely pleasing when reproduced on a huge scale. But the...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2008 | What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Man’s Oldest Prescription, 2200 BCE From Nippur, currently in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. It reads- 1. white pear tree, the root of the moon plant, pulverize, dissolve in beer, let the man drink. 2. the seed of the carpenter plant, gum resin of...
