by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | Exodus
Jar Handle, 13th century BCE A handle from a Late Bronze Age store jar (13th century BCE) containing three incised letters in Proto-Canaanite script, the earliest known alphabet. Found during the 1976 pilot season at Tell Halif. “How a Dig Begins,” BAR Jun...
by hadassah | Jan 20, 2009 | Exodus, Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
The Nimrud Prism, 720 BCE The Re-population of Samaria”I repopulated Sameria more than before. I brought into it people from countries conquered by my hands. I appointed my eunuch as governor over them. And I counted them as Assyrians.” “The king of...
by hadassah | Jan 19, 2009 | Exodus, Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
House of Ahiel, 586 BCE Hebrew University professor Yigal Shiloh uncovered a house in the City of David opposite the Kidron Valley. It is the most complete house excavated to date within the city. It is known as the House of Ahiel because it contained a pottery...
by hadassah | Jan 19, 2009 | Exodus
The Lakhish Ewer, c. 1220 BCE The Lakhish (Lachish) ewer, discovered by James L. Starkey in a rubbish heap outside a temple at Lakhish. Dates to about 1220 BCE, the time when scholars believe the Israelites were first emerging in Canaan. Found in 1934....
by hadassah | Jan 19, 2009 | Exodus, Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Lakhish Reliefs at Nineveh, c. 700 BCE Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, sat upon a nimedu throne and passed in review the booty from Lachish (Notation on Sennacherib’s throne room relief) Date- c. 700 BCE Current Location- British Museum,...
by hadassah | Jan 18, 2009 | Exodus, Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Moabite Stone, c. 840 BCE The First Mention of the God of Israel YHWH — “Omri was the king of Israel, and he oppressed Moab… And…I took the vessels of YHWHI am Mesha, son of Kemosh[-yatti], the king of Moab, the Dibonite. My father was...
