Inscriptions and documents from ancient Israel’s neighbors, especially Assyria and Babylonia, provide important historical context.
On this fragmentary stela, written in Aramaic in the late ninth century BCE and found at the city of Dan in northern Israel, an Aramaean king, perhaps Hazael of Damascus, records his defeat of two Israelite kings, possibly Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, and also Ahaziah, son of Joram of the House of David, king of Judah. Many of the restorations, though based on similar texts, are uncertain.
Yankl Adler painted The Mutilated in London during a period of heavy bombing in homage to “the behavior of Londoners under great stress and suffering.” He made two other paintings the same style and…
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About a thousand items that had accumulated over time were found in the repository of Cave 25 in the Ketef Hinnom cemetery. They included jewelry, ivory and bone inlays, arrowheads, tools, and a large…