by hadassah | Nov 27, 2016 | Bible and Beyond, Biblical Narrative
Tel Jezreel 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...
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...