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Oct 24, 2024 · Evidence of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt. Dated to c. 1219 B.C.E., the Merneptah Stele is the earliest extrabiblical record of a people group called Israel. Set up by Pharaoh Merneptah to commemorate his military victories, the stele proclaims, “Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer is captured. Yeno’am is made into nonexistence; Israel is ...
Apr 20, 2022 · Ancient Israel’s Victory at the Red Sea. What the Song of the Sea reveals about the Red Sea crossing. A depiction of Ramesses II slaying enemies during the Battle of Kadesh. This relief, along with Ramesses’s victory song, is carved into the walls of his temple at Abu Simbel. Whenever we think of the Exodus story, our minds are immediately ...
Mar 9, 2024 · Having conducted more than 30 years of archaeological work on and around Har Karkom—a 2,700-foot ridge in the southern Negev—Emmanuel Anati is convinced that he has found the Biblical Mt. Sinai. At Har Karkom, Anati discovered 1,300 archaeological sites, 40,000 rock engravings and more than 120 rock cult sites.
Jan 25, 2024 · Throughout the world, images of the cross adorn the walls and steeples of churches. For some Christians, the cross is part of their daily attire worn around their necks. Sometimes the cross even adorns the body of a Christian in permanent ink. In Egypt, among other countries, for example, Christians wear a tattoo of the cross on their wrists.
Jun 7, 2024 · A memorial to the Israelite crossing of the Jordan River, a place of sacrifice, the location of King Agag’s death, Gilgal may be one of the most important biblical sites you probably do not remember from the Bible. That is if Gilgal is even a single site in the first place. While Gilgal is mentioned more than 40 times in the Hebrew Bible ...
Aug 17, 2024 · The excavator of the crucified man, Vassilios Tzaferis, followed the analysis of Nico Haas of Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem suggesting Roman crucifixion methods: a contorted position: arms nailed to the crossbeam; legs bent, twisted to one side, and held in place by a single nail that passed through a wooden plaque ...
Aug 4, 2022 · The topic of Israel’s origins has been debated for well over a century by archaeologists seeking to use material evidence to fill out the picture described by the biblical account. Hidden in the Jordan Valley in one of the hottest places on earth, the ancient site of Khirbet el-Mastarah may shed light on this thorny question of the origin of ...
Mar 31, 2024 · By contrast, in Exodus 10:15 we are told that “nothing green was left of tree or grass of the field in all the land of Egypt.”. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the plagues is darkness, the ninth plague. In Exodus 10:21–23 we read that a thick darkness descended upon all the land of Egypt for three days.
May 10, 2020 · In the third century, the church father Origen, unable to locate the Bethany referred to in the first chapter of the Gospel of John, somewhat arbitrarily suggested emending the text to read “Beth Abara across the Jordan.” Beth Abara means “House of the Crossing,” possibly identifying a ford in the Jordan.
Feb 26, 2023 · Using these accounts, García reconstructs three major routes between Galilee and Judea: an eastern, central, and western path. Three Pilgrimage Paths from Galilee to Jerusalem: (1) The central—and shortest—route goes through Samaria. Pilgrims would have passed the cities of Sepphoris, Nazareth, Tirzah, Shechem, Shiloh, and Bethel.
