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Qeiyafa Evidence of an Early Judahite Cultus
Jim West has the press release from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with is worth reading in full. Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, the Yigal Yadin Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced today the discovery … Continue reading
Who Killed Goliath?
Elhanan, of course, as Claude Mariottini explains. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend
Wise Women 4: Mourners
Singers of Dirges In addition to presiding over births, a wise woman may also have a role at the liminal time of a death in the community. This is also a role with broad cultural currency in the ancient world. … Continue reading
Posted in Old Testament, Wealth of Egypt
Tagged 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Deuteronomy, Genesis, Jeremiah
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Wise Women 2: Mediators
Authority Israel’s wise women held authority. The very use of the title “wise woman” without any further identifying comment in 2 Samuel 14 and 20 suggests that this was a familiar role at least to the original hearers of the … Continue reading
Posted in Old Testament, Wealth of Egypt
Tagged 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Judges, Numbers, Talmud
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Wise Women 1: Mothers in Israel
Wise women played socially important roles in virtually every ancient culture. In Rome, ten Sybils—prophetesses—are mentioned by name in the prologue to the Sybilline Oracles. Oliver Gurney notes at least thirteen (perhaps as many as thirty-two) of these women by … Continue reading
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Aren Meier reports that a new article seeks to identify King Toi (or Tou), a contemporary of King David, with Tatais, King of the Neo-Hittite state of Palas(a)tin or Walas(a)tin, of which Hamath was a part. King Toi is mentioned … Continue reading
Something Like a United Monarchy
The Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription is once again in the news. According to a recent report by the University of Haifa, Gershon Galil has deciphered the text, written in ink on a small piece of pottery shard, and concluded that it … Continue reading
