by hadassah | Nov 27, 2016 | Bible and Beyond, Biblical Narrative
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...
by hadassah | Nov 4, 2008 | Biblical Narrative
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,...
by hadassah | Jul 20, 2008 | Bible and Beyond, Biblical Narrative
Moses and the Burning Bush, Rembrandt (1606-1669). 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...