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A large lion dominates this seal, appearing between the owner’s name (Shema) and his title (servant of Jeroboam). The lion’s jaws are open and its tail curves upward, making the animal appear larger…
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Meggido, Land of Israel
(Tel Megiddo, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, probably first Half of 8th Century BCE
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The upper register of this seal from Megiddo, made of black serpentine with white spots, has an image of a striding griffin wearing a kilt and an Egyptian double crown, with an Egyptian ankh symbol…
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Megiddo, Land of Israel
(Tel Megiddo, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 8th Century BCE
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The griffin on this black stone seal found in Jerusalem has a bovine body. Its wings are held out and down.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 8th Century BCE
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Morris Lapidus
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Miami, United States of America
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1955
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Our point of departure in historical research is the basic tenet that the development of social life depends on the development of the means of production that are ultimately determined by…
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Tuvia Heilikman
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1926
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Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural…
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Saul Borovoi
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1928
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Samaria, Land of Israel
(Kaleh Qaţār-e Soflá, Iran)
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First Quarter of the 8th Century BCE
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So, Mr. Blum?
So, Mr. Blau?
What’s with you, Mr. Blum?
What should be with me, Mr. Blau?
How should I know what’s with you, Mr. Blum? I’m asking you. May I not ask? Why are you staring so?
I’m staring…
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Karel Polácek
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1926
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A foreign crawling black stain, that’s what he was—the kosher butcher—in the new, not yet completed, but sparkling white Jewish settlement. Leading up to the High Holidays, he chastised impiety at…
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David Bergelson
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1928
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The other day I met a Jew from Shklov on Arbat Street, directly opposite the entrance to the Vakhtangov Theater, and he told me about the moon he knew in Shklov, which urged him to Moscow. The Jew was…
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Shmuel Godiner
Date:
1928