by hadassah | Jul 3, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
1These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household- 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5The total number of persons that were of Jacob’s issue came...
by hadassah | Jul 3, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
We were talking last time about the mysterious episode by the Yabbok River, when Jacob undergoes a change in name, and I mentioned the fact that in the biblical view, the name of something somehow encapsulates its very essence. Knowing the name of something gives one...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
37Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. 2This, then, is the line of Jacob- At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a helper to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And...
by hadassah | Jun 4, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
A recent letter to the editor in BAR (Queries & Comments, BAR 15-03) objected to an advertisement for a doll of Queen Nefertiti that portrayed her as white-skinned. According to the letter writer, Nefertiti was “a beautiful black Egyptian Queen.” Moreover, “The...
by hadassah | Jun 4, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt for 17 years between 1375 and 1358 B.C., has often been identified as the first monotheist. Beginning with Sigmund Freud, some have suggested that Akhenaten’s monotheism exercised a direct, or possibly indirect, influence on Mosaic...
by hadassah | Jun 4, 2008 | Israel in Egypt, The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
The Dayan Collection, which was previewed in the September/October 1982 BAR, opened at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on April 15, 1986, to rave reviews and a chorus of controversy. Collected by the late Israeli general and amateur archaeologist Moshe Dayan, who died...
