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  1. Archaeologists just found the grandparents’ room in a 2,700-year-old Israelite house. A cedar chair, a rare footbath, & a ground floor bedroom (the ladder to the 2nd floor being the giveaway). #Archaeology #IronAge #AncientIsrael anthropology.net/p/the-grandpa

  2. @CoolerPseudonym
    If you're going to start flinging stuff round then here is a series of 26 interviews about the archaeology of #AncientIsrael and an interpretation of it by #IsraelFinkelsteinArchaeologist.

    I think Q gets a mention, maybe 2.

    Take that.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34

  3. Watching #IsrealFinkelsteinArchaeologist be interviewed in a 26 part series about the history of #AncientIsrael.

    First episode was good, went over the approach to be used.

    There are subtitles, which make clear words like Apiru.

    And a clarification that academic #BiblicalMinimalists are not claiming that there is no or little history in the Torah/Old Testament, but instead claiming the historical facts were injected after getting info from the Persians and/or Greeks

    youtu.be/22HQKXCMfHk

  4. It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    Four steeds pull the chariot bearing the sun god #Helios, surrounded by the 12 signs of the zodiac. Helios and the zodiac appear in at least seven synagogues from about 400 to 500 CE.

    🎨 Floor #mosaic in the ancient Sepphoris Synagogue, Israel. Photo: Gabi Laron/Courtesy Zeev Weiss.

    #DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome #mythology @antiquidons @mythology #MosaicMonday #ancientIsrael

  5. My standard length for long was known
    And measured from the funny bone
    To fingertip. The Builders of
    The Temple, He Who Loosed a Dove,
    And Ptah employed me. Now my name
    Sounds like a phrase that means the same
    As “raise it to the power of three,”
    And only wonks remember me.

    #poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #history #science #bible #measurement #ancientegypt #ancientisrael #architecture #mythology #poetrycommunity

  6. I have a new video essay up. This time, it's about the murder that Israelite queen Jezebel is accused of in 1 Kings 21. A close look at the text’s inconsistencies and conflicting accounts of the incident cast doubt on her guilt.

    youtube.com/watch?v=PqWFuRpI_1

    #Bible #BiblicalStudies #HigherCriticism #history #AncientIsrael #Fundamentalism #Deconstruction

  7. This 9,000-year-old skeleton is the oldest cremation in the Near East - Enlarge / Fire. (credit: Soreen D. / Flickr)
    A cremation pit recently unearthed at Beisamoun, jus... - arstechnica.com/?p=1699392 #ancientpeopledidstuff #biologicalarchaeology #funeralpractices #ancientisrael #archaeology #cremation #osteology #skeletons #science

  8. Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll - Enlarge (credit: Guy Bar-Oz)
    Ancient trash heaps recently yielded some clues about how the Plague... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1694582 #plagueofjustininian #byzantineempire #justinianplague #yersiniapestis #ancientisrael #bubonicplague #archaeology #garbology #gazawine #y.pestis #science #negev

  9. Ancient slag offers insight into the uneven pace of technological advances - Enlarge / Copper production waste Khirbat en-Nahas, Jordan was piled 6m (18 ft) deep. (credit: T. ... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1571921 #punctuatedequilibrium #bronzeagecollapse #edomitekingdom #ancientisrael #ancientegypt #archaeology #metallurgy #science #copper