Today we released a music video for Psalm 23, featuring the beautiful “Adonai Ro’i” song by Miqedem and illustrated with photos from our collection. The song is in Hebrew, the very words composed by David in ancient Judah 3,000 years ago, and played by a band of believers in Israel. I think it’s one of the best videos of Psalm 23 ever created.
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Carl Rasmussen reports that the Classical Archaeology section of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum has reopened after a long closure, though the all-important upper floor is still not open. On his visit he discovered the “Assos Tablet” that he’s long been looking for.
Babylonian cuneiform texts are shedding light on the life of the ancient Judeans who were living in exile in Babylon.
Emlyn Dodd shares the ancient Egyptian recipe that he used for making olive oil.
A British tourist was given a 15-year jail sentence in an Iraqi prison after picking up a few potsherds as souvenirs.
“New York prosecutors have seized five Egyptian [antiquities] from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an international trafficking investigation involving the former head of Paris’s Louvre Museum.”
Hybrid workshop on July 1: Performing Tutankhamun: One Hundred Years of Retellings
Turkish Archaeological News has a roundup of stories from the month of May.
Clyde Billington is on The Book and the Spade to discuss Jewish perspectives on the exodus, including recent research by Lawrence Schiffman and Joshua Berman.
Accordance Bible Software is offering their best deals ever on graphics collections, including our Cultural Images of the Holy Land and Trees, Plants, and Flowers of the Holy Land. I would also recommend The Virtual Bible: 3D Reconstructions of the Biblical World ($20) and the bundle of five resources (including tabernacle and temple) from Rose Publishing ($40). See all the discounts here.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Arne Halbakken, Explorator
Claudia Chotzen describes her experience as a volunteer excavating the En Gedi synagogue 50 years ago.
The Institute of Biblical Culture is beginning a year-long biblical Hebrew course in July, and you can receive $300 off with coupon BIBLEPLACES.
Jerusalem University College has a number of excellent study options, including Historical and Geographical Settings of the Bible, Jesus and His Times, and Pastor and Parishoner trips.
Bible Archaeology Report: Top Ten Discoveries Related to the Book of Judges. It’s fun to try to make some guesses before reading through.
The latest from Walking the Text with Brad Gray: David and Goliath: Guard Your Shephelah (20 min)
Virtual lecture on June 19: Aren Maeir will be speaking on “New Views on the Philistines: What Archaeology Reveals about Goliath and His Peers” in the BAS Scholars Series ($10).
On sale for Kindle: Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible, by Carl Rasmussen
Our team spent years developing the Photo Companion to 1 & 2 Kings, and we finally released it this week. Woohoo!
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Arne Halbakken, Explorator
Artifacts discovered in the harbor of Caesarea provide evidence of Late Bronze trade relations between Cyprus and Sardinia. The underlying journal article is here.
The Met Museum in NYC will spend $40 million to renovate its ancient Near East and Cypriote galleries.
The Grand Egyptian Museum is inching closer to being complete.
Writing for The New Yorker, Casey Cep explains why we find such a minor pharaoh as King Tut so fascinating.
An archaeologist is using deep learning to develop a search engine for precise searches of archaeological records.
Johannes Hackl attempts to explain when Akkadian ceased as a language used by native speakers and when cuneiform writing came to an end.
Cheryl Kolander, a professional natural dyer, writes briefly about her research on Tyrian purple dye.
A mass grave of Crusaders in Sidon is the topic of This Week in the Ancient Near East podcast.
Members of the Historical Faith Society can view several recent videos with Alexander Schick, including:
There will also be a free, live event with Alexander Schick and Timothy Mahoney talking about the history of the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls on Sun., Feb 27, at 4:00 pm US Eastern.
Sketchfab has a variety of 3D models available for viewing, including:
The John Henry Iliffe Collection of nearly 800 photographs is now available online. Iliffe’s career included being the Keeper of the Palestine Archaeological Museum (now the Rockefeller) in Jerusalem. Iliffe was also the author of A Short Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating the Stone and Bronze Ages in Palestine, published the year before the museum opened, available here in pdf format.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Alexander Schick, Explorator, Keith Keyser
A fragment of an ancient Canaanite deity has been discovered in the temple at Moza, providing some explanation for why high places in Judah were condemned by the biblical writers.
A fortress in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem is being renovated. This fortress is believed to have protected the city during the time of Judah’s kings.
After a $12 million renovation project, a beautiful mosaic is about to open to the public at Hisham’s Palace in Jericho.
The debate continues as to whether Herod’s Galilean temple was located at Caesarea Philippi or at Omrit, and a permanent exhibit including a large column from Omrit is now on display at Tel Hai College.
Eight antiquities thieves digging for buried gold were nabbed in the act.
“Hear, O Israel: The Magic of the Shema” is a new exhibit at the Israel Museum open through April 2022.
Hicham Aboutaam shares his six favorite pieces in the Israel Museum.
An online course on Joshua’s Altar Site begins on Sunday with the 5-lesson study featuring Shay Bar, Scott Stripling, Ralph Hawkins, Zvi Koenigsberg, and Aaron Lipkin.
The Urim and the Thummim are the subject on the latest episode of the Biblical World podcast, with Doug Bookman joining host Mary Buck to share his research.
Bryan Windle’s top three reports in biblical archaeology this month are all likely to end up in the year’s top 10 list.
This week we released Paul’s Epistles in our Photo Companion to the Bible series. The sale price ends soon.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Arne Halbakken, Charles Savelle, Daniel Wright, Paleojudaica, Ted Weis
