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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears, Performed in the market towns; By day his beast was confined in chains; At night, they danced under the stars. Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…

This seal from Tel Dan, made of red limestone, shows a driver and two other people in a horse-drawn Assyrian-style chariot. Chariot scenes, uncommon in Israel, are frequent in Assyrian and Egyptian…