Tag: joshua

The peer review of the small 3,200-year-old curse tablet discovered at Mount Ebal in Samaria more than two years ago is expected to reignite the debate in the archaeological community over the find.

Yehoshua was one of Israel's greatest leaders because he represented the ideal expression of the Yosef force - one consciously rooted in, guided by and completely subordinate to the Hebrew mission.

Joshua's altar is the only currently known remnant from the period of the Israelite conquest of Canaan.

The common hatzav can be found everywhere in Israel and its main use in antiquity was the demarcation of lands and plots.

Naturally, the moon and the sun came to a standstill in the sky, causing the solar system to disperse across the galaxy, on account of those pesky laws of Newton.

Seven steps have been exposed to date, but the whole staircase has not yet been completely unearthed, as it continues its climb westward.

The mention of both the sun and the moon led the three researchers to the conclusion that the text refers to a solar eclipse, during which the moon moves between the sun and the earth, blocking the sunlight.

Question: I am a psychology professor at McGill University who is doing an MA in Jewish studies. My thesis topic is the history of interpretation of the story of Rachav Hazona. In the course of my research I was trying to understand how the Midrash derived that Rahab converted.

The Land of Milk and Honey also is the Land of Wine, not only today with wines that have won world prizes but also 3,700 years ago, according to a new discovery by a US-led archaeological team.

The father sent an email to a friend saying he was suicidal before the shootings.

You can learn from the Bible that people understood four thousand years ago about things that America's current leaders have forgotten today.