Shiloh and Masada: sanctuary and fortress
Shiloh and Masada: the first sanctuary of ancient Israel, where the Ark rested, and the last fortress against Rome. With the Ark in the…
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Archaeology
Material evidence for the world of the Abrahamic scriptures.
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Where was Abraham from? Ur, Harran and Urfa
Genesis names Ur of the Chaldeans. Archaeologists point to southern Iraq, others to the north, and Urfa claims him by tradition. The evidence, and…
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Nicaea, 325: the council, the creed and the church beneath the lake
Archaeologists at Iznik have found the earlier church beneath the lakeside basilica. What the Council of Nicaea decided there, how it ranked the great…
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The Cairo Genizah
A synagogue storeroom in Cairo yielded 400,000 medieval fragments and reshaped the study of Jewish history.
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What archaeology tells us about the ancient Near East
Inscriptions, excavations and the limits of the evidence for the world of the Bible and early Islam.