by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Inscriptions, Masada, Pottery
The fortress of Masada, the last place to fall to the Romans in the Great Revolt of Judea against Rome, was taken on Passover day of the year 73 AD. The defenders had decided that the last thing they could do on earth was to deny the Romans the pleasure of torturing...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Inscriptions, Qumran
The texts of the Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls were more or less the same as the texts we know today, but the order in which they were presented was different. In this exquisitely reproduced piece offered here by Biblical...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Inscriptions, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
A feeling of a spiritual ascent would be an acceptable explanation of ” a song of ascents,” the heading of Psalms 120-134. Jerusalem may not be the highest place in the country geographically, but it is indeed the place of the Temple of God, and therefore going to it...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Inscriptions, Masada
Archaeology is difficult and tedious work. The crews must go through ancient sites with exquisite care and patience. This makes for slow going. There is an occasional burst of excitement when a beautiful object—a pot or coin or piece of jewelry—is found. There is even...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Inscriptions, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
We think we understand the Bible, but do we really? Take the first line of the first book; Genesis 1:1. The King James Version reads, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Simple enough? But the matter is not so simple, because the original Hebrew,...
