One day in 1989 rumor reached me that monumental Israelite architecture had accidentally been uncovered at Tel Jezreel in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. I was then, as now, a professional archaeologist who studies the Biblical period. I have always been inspired by the Bible and the historical events described in it, as well […]
Overview The Stories of the Patriarchs (Genesis 12-36), Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. Biblical History- From Abraham to Moses, c. 1850-1200 BCE, Steven Feldman, COJS. The Mists of Antiquity 2000-1000 BC, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem- Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991. Primary sources Genesis 12-36 Genesis 22- The Sacrifice […]
The Hebrew Bible Now Moses, tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, drove the flock into the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire out of a bush. He gazed and there was a bush all aflame, […]