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Photojournalist Lori Grinker has become well known for her photographs of the aftereffects of war and for her photo essays on her brother’s death from AIDS and her mother’s struggle with cancer. In…
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Lori Grinker
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Cairo, Egypt
Date:
1995
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In this detail from a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, five people stand with raised forearms (their hands are not depicted). As raised hands usually signify praying, the scene may represent…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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A Conversation between Abou Khalil and Abou Naddara Zarqa at Café Riche, Boulevard des Italiens, on the Night of the 14th of July 1878, Paris[ . . . ] Abou Khalil:Good Lord, I’ve missed your banter…
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James Sanua
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1878
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Question: The holy community of Rhodes (may their Rock protect and sustain them) agreed and accepted upon themselves, under the threat of very severe penalties, that no member of Israel—not Sargons n…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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To my lords Jedaniah, Uriah and the priests of YHW the God, Mattan son of Jashobiah and Berechiah son of, . . . from your servant Mauziah.
May the God of Heaven seek after the welfare of my lords…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
Date:
Late 5th Century BCE