NORTH SINAI JOURNAL A worker removed sand from the remains of a military fort. The ruins roughly coincide with the timing of the Israelites’ biblical flight from Egypt.Credit…Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times By Michael Slackman April 3, 2007
Origins Of The Hebrew Bible
Did the Red Sea Part? No Evidence, Archaeologists Say
ARCHAEOLOGIST SAYS EXODUS A MYTH
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN | PUBLISHED: April 3, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 12, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. NORTH SINAI, Egypt — On the eve of Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the story of Moses leading the Israelites through this wilderness out of slavery, Egypt”s chief archaeologist took a bus full of journalists into the North Sinai […]
What Has Ugaritt to Do with Jerusalem PDF
BIBLE AND MESOPOTAMIA
NebuchadnezzarThe first 11 chapters of Genesis are largely set in Mesopotamia. Eden is a Sumerian word meaning “steppe,” and was a district in Sumer. The Tower of Babel was in Babylon. The Hanging Gardens may have inspired the story of the Garden of Eden. According to Genesis Abraham and Cain and Abel and numerous other […]
Light on the Old Testament from the Ancient Near East
“Light on the Old Testament from the Ancient Near East” Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary) Date: September 14, 1948 to November 24, 1948 How do we determine conjectured information? ? Location: Chester, Pa. How do we determine conjectured information? ? Genre: Essay Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. – Education Details Written during King’s first semester at […]