by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Inscriptions, Monumental Inscriptions, Stone
Why did they need a warning on the gates of the Temple? The Temple that Herod rebuilt in Jerusalem was the center of Jewish life in the world. It was the place where man met God. It was the largest religious structure (35 acres of space) ever built by one man. And it...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Inscriptions, Masada, Pottery
Ten names are recorded on the lots—pieces of pottery with names written on them—found at Masada, replicated and offered here by Biblical Reproductions. Professor Yigael Yadin, who directed two great seasons of excavation at Masada between 1963 and 1965, believed these...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Inscriptions
The Temple Courts Inscription, also known as the Temple Warning Inscription, is a block of limestone measuring 33.5 cm (13.19 inches) long, 22 cm (8.66 inches) high and 14.5 cm (5.7 inches) deep. It contains an inscription, seven complete lines of Greek writing, on...
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...
