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Weekend Roundup

The largest treasure of gold coins ever found in Israel was recently discovered in the harbor of Caesarea. Most of the coins date to the Fatimid period (ca. AD 1000). There’s a close-up of a well-preserved coin here. Seven high-res images are available here.

The Jerusalem Post has photos and a video of the recent snowfall in Israel. Record snowfall was recorded in Istanbul, and the snow was heavy in Lebanon and Jordan. Yahoo has more photos of Jerusalem here. And Shmuel Browns has some photos from his neighborhood in the German Colony.
Leen Ritmeyer suggests that some paving stones on the Temple Mount pre-date the Roman destruction.

The next stop for the Passages exhibit is the happy town of Santa Clarita, California.

Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to the California Science Center next month, along with the Jerusalem IMAX movie.

Ever wanted to volunteer in Israel? Wayne Stiles suggests 15 volunteering opportunities.

James Pritchard’s HarperCollins Atlas of Bible History is not the best atlas out there, but it’s currently only $3.99 for Kindle. As one reviewer notes, the text may be more useful on the screen than the maps.

This week on the Book and the Spade: Herod’s palaces and ancient olive oil, with Clyde Billington.

Ferrell Jenkins explains how Pilate used coins to promote the emperor cult.

Codex Vaticanus is now online.

Aren Maeir’s recent lecture at GVSU is now posted on Youtube.

Eric Cline will be lecturing at the Oriental Institute in Chicago next week.

Gabriel Barkay, Zachi Dvira, and others involved in the Temple Mount Sifting Operation are coming on a fundraising tour in April and May. Check out their blog to learn how you can arrange talks or dinners with them.

The Islamic State is reportedly looting ancient sites “on an industrial scale.” Some people are trying to stop it.

HT: Ted Weis, Joseph Lauer, Charles Savelle, Jock Stender

Gold coins discovered in Caesarea harbor
Photo copyright: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

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Weekend Roundup, Part 2

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Palestine Exploration Fund. This post shares interesting items from the 100th anniversary exhibition. A calendar of coming lectures is also available.

After a flub over a mummy graveyard, a BYU researcher restores ties with the Egyptian authorities.

An upcoming CBS miniseries follows four female survivors of Masada. Trailer here.

Aren Maeir announces the 2015 Ackerman Family Annual Workshop in Biblical Archaeology. The topic is Southern Canaan in the Late Bronze Age.

Excavators working at Macherus have restored the site according to the principle of anastylosis, using only original architectural elements.

Matti Friedman: The Sistine Chapel of the Jews Is Restored to Life in Jerusalem.

Jack Sasson, curator of the Agade list which provides us with many stories each week, has retired from Vanderbilt.

Pre-pub at Logos: Charlesworth, Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations, $20

Mari Had a Little Lamb is one of several Assyrian coloring pages.

We are now on twitter @BiblePlaces.

HT: Agade, Charles Savelle

Macherus from the southeast
Photo from the Jordan collection

Tagged Egypt, Jerusalem, Jordan, Lectures, Temple Mount, Weekend Roundup

Weekend Roundup, Part 1

Archaeologists working at Bethsaida have discovered a possible escape tunnel from the time of the Israelite monarchy.

Leen Ritmeyer explains the recent construction work on the Temple Mount and its potential significance for archaeology.

“The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry recently announced the excavation of a 3,000-year-old fortress at the site of Tell el-Habua (also known as Tel Habuwa and Tell Huba) near the Suez Canal in Egypt.”

Egypt’s Prime Minister recently visited the Grand Egyptian Museum to check on its progress for a slated August 2015 opening.

The works of the famous glass maker Ennion are now on display at the Met.

The Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas is hosting a temporary exhibition of old maps of the Holy Land. Wayne Stiles shows a few photos from his visit and explains the value of using maps in your
Bible study.

Monday lecture at the British Museum: Rupert Chapman, Ahab’s Ivory House: When Was It Destroyed?

Plans are underway to allow visitors inside the Erechtheion of the Acropolis.

The most visited museum in 2014 was the Louvre, with 9.3 million visitors.

HT: Explorator, Agade

Ennion's blue glass jug, 1st c AD, tb031114560

Blue glass jug made by Ennion, first century AD
From the Eretz Israel Museum

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Hoffmeier Lecture on Egypt’s Defense System

James Hoffmeier is lecturing in Chicago tomorrow on “The Design and Origin of the New Kingdom East Frontier Defense System.” The American Research Center in Egypt is sponsoring the lecture on Saturday, January 10, at 5:00 p.m. at the Oriental Institute (1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637), LaSalle Banks Room, Lower Level.

The center’s website includes information about the speaker along with this description of the lecture:

Archaeological and geological work in north Sinai over the past 15 years have resulted in providing sufficient data to reveal the design of and the rationale for Egypt’s east frontier defense system. Excavations at Tell Hebua I and II and nearby Tell el-Borg have provided valuable archaeological information. The former sites remain under investigation, while I direct the exploration of Tell el-Borg between 1999 and 2008. Paleo-environmental investigations of the area revealed new geographical features that when combined with the new archaeological data provide the basis for understanding the route of the Ways of Horus, the Egyptian military road to Canaan. This paper will include a report on the final season of excavations at Tell el-Borg, which yielded unexpected results, the remains of a third New Kingdom defense structure. With this new feature in hand, the picture of the design of the frontier defense system was fully realized. The lecture will seek to identify the origin for design of northeastern frontier.

Tagged Egypt, Exodus-Conquest, Lectures

Lectures on Jewish Diaspora after 722 BC

The Lanier Theological Library is inviting scholars and patrons to a free seminar on Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Jewish Diaspora after 722 BC. The seminar will be held on Friday, January 16, from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., in our chapel, located at 14130 Hargrave Road, Houston, TX 77070.

This seminar precedes and ties in well with the library’s lecture on the next day by Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic, “The Book of Daniel and the Nature of Biblical Truth.” Registration for the Saturday evening lecture is separate from this seminar.

This 3-hour session on Friday will feature the six presenters and presentations below.

K. Lawson Younger (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) “Israelites and Judahites in Assyria and Babylon in Cuneiform Sources“

James K. Hoffmeier (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) “Judeans in Egypt after the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.“

Richard Hawes (Archaeology Forum, Tyndale House Cambridge) “Did Edom Annex Parts of Southern Judah Following the Fall of Jerusalem in 567/8 B.C.“

Benjamin Scolnic (Southern Connecticut State University) “The Book of Daniel and Modern Theories about the Persecution that led to the Story of Hanukkah“

Gary A. Rendsburg (Rutgers University) “Septuagint, Synagogue, and Symbiosis: The Jews of Hellenistic Egypt“

Thomas W. Davis (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) “Jews in Cyprus in Hellenistic Times“

We invite you to attend this seminar as an opportunity to expand your knowledge, contribute to the discussion, connect with other attendees and explore this library. You are welcome to extend this invitation to pastors, graduate students, or other people you think would be interested. Seating is limited, so please register for this event by JANUARY 14, 2015.

To register for this free seminar, go here.

Registration for the Jan. 17 lecture at 7 p.m. is still open here.

HT: Agade

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Weekend Roundup, Part 2

The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem is hosting a special exhibition entitled By the Rivers of Babylon beginning next month. An international conference on Jerusalem in Babylonia will be held on February 2-3.

Now online: the Fall 2014 issue of DigSight, published by Southern Adventist University’s Institute of Archaeology.

See the Holy Land has published new articles on Kathisma and the Church of St Alexander Nevsky (the Russian excavations), and an updated article on Magdala.

Free video lecture online: Doctors, Diseases and Deities: Epidemic Crises and Medicine in Ancient Rome, by Sarah Yeomans of the Biblical Archaeology Society.

Matthew Karsten hiked portions of the Israel National Trail and has some spectacular photos to show for it.

Aren Maeir will be giving a lecture on the latest work at Gath at the Albright Institute on January 15.

Registration for MEMRA’s ancient language courses ends soon.

G. M. Grena shares some personal thoughts and more from his time at the ASOR 2014 conference.

The British Museum explains why it was so pleased to be involved in the latest Night at the Museum movie.

The new Exodus movie is “an unimaginative, mind-numbing bore,” according to Michael Heiser.

Egypt has banned the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” for being historically inaccurate.

ISIS is threatening to blow up the walls of ancient Nineveh.

Vassilios Tzaferis has died in Athens. Among Tzaferis’s excavations was the tomb of the crucified
man.

HT: Agade, Exploring Bible Lands

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