by hadassah | Jun 4, 2008 | Israel in Egypt, The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
One hundred years of excavation and discovery at Tell el-Amarna will be commemorated at “A Tell el-Amarna Centennial” at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, February 1–3, 1987. El-Amarna—the ancient Akhetaten (Egyptian for “The Horizon of the Sun...
by hadassah | Jun 4, 2008 | Israel in Egypt, The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Speaking Egyptian is tough—impossible, really. Even Egyptians can’t do it. As in other modern Arab countries, Egyptians today speak Arabic. Why should speaking Egyptian be so difficult? Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ancient Egyptian children were able to...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
It begins with a single individual. The history of the people of Israel is at first the story of a family and its founder. Before there was an Israelite nation or an Israelite kingdom, there was only Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis Abraham embarked on an...
by hadassah | Apr 7, 2008 | Israel in Egypt
Nefertiti’s head was found at Amarna in 1912. She was the wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. She was the mother-in-law and probable stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
by hadassah | Apr 7, 2008 | Israel in Egypt, The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Located in northwestern Syria on the Mediterranean coast, Ugarit (Ras Shamra) served as the capital city of a second millennium BCE kingdom with the same name. This white limestone stela (4.6’ high x 1.6’ wide), carved in low relief, comes from a temple at the site....