Excerpts of article from The TimesofIsrael.com A 2,000-year-old fragment containing the Ten Commandments and part of the Shema prayer discovered in Egypt in the late 19th century was recently posted… Continue reading "Ancient Bible fragment posted online"
I sat back to relax on the airplane this morning on my Tel Aviv to Rome flight, when I couldn’t help but notice that my face was on the front… Continue reading "Simcha comments on front page Ha’aretz article"
By Matti Friedman on timesofisrael.com Israeli archaeologists digging under a road in Jerusalem have uncovered the remains of an agricultural community that could yield new information on the lives of… Continue reading "Remnants of Hasmonean-era community found under Jerusalem road"
(Click here for the full John Greene review of Digging through the Bible) Digging through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and Ancient Bible (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 hardback, 2009, paperback) by… Continue reading "John Greene review of Digging through the Bible"
John Greene review RICHARD A. FREUND DIGGING THROUGH THE BIBLE: UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL PEOPLE, PLACES, AND CONTROVERSIES THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY NEW YORK: ROWAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC., 2009, 381 pp. REVIEWED BY… Continue reading "Full John Greene review of Digging through the Bible"
Here is information about a great book decoding early Christianity from coins! Click here to purchase. Traditional religious history preserves a rarely acknowledged secret that Christianity developed from at least… Continue reading "The Secret Roots of Christianity: Decoding Religious History with Symbols on Ancient Coins [Paperback]"
You probably don’t remember the name Eric Hoffer. He was a longshoreman who turned into a philosopher, wrote columns for newspapers and some books. He was a non-Jewish, American, social… Continue reading "WRITTEN IN 1968 – 44 years ago – Astonishing!"
