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I. Rapaport [Rabbi Dr. I. Rapaport, O.B.E., Emeritus Chief Minister of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation and Chairman of the Melbourne Beth-Din, has written extensively on Biblical and Judaic subjects. The present article is a non-technical abridgment of his book “The Hebrew word SHEM and its original meaning,” published in Melbourne, 1976. Dr. Rapaport now lives … Continue reading “THE
FLOOD STORY IN BIBLE AND CUNEIFORM LITERATURE”

Abraham Rabinovich Victory albums have gone out of fashion in Israel since 1967, but Tel Aviv University’s Archeology Institute has now apparently come up with a new form of the genre — a Defeat Album. It records a major beating for Our Side. And to rub salt in the wound, the album’s price is $70. … Continue reading “RECORD
OF DEFEAT”

William H. Shea [William H. Shea, Ph.D., is associate professor of Old Testament at Andrews University Theological Seminary, Berrien Springs, MI, and is a frequent contributor to Bible and Spade.] More than half a century has now passed since R. P. Dougherty’s significant monograph was published in 1929, summarizing what was known up to then … Continue reading “NABONIDUS,
BELSHAZZAR, AND THE BOOK OF DANIEL: AN UPDATE”

Abraham Rabinovich Gabriel Barkay knew the hill from his army service with the Jerusalem Brigade. He had stood on its slope looking across no-man’s land at the crenellated walls of the Old City on the other side of the Hinnom Valley and reflected that other soldiers had stood there before him. Pompey and Titus had … Continue reading “SECRETS
OF CAVE 25”

Clifford A. Wilson Garry Stone Year Found, Date. Language/ Name/Location Excavator/Discoverer Script Contents/Biblical Significance Rosetta Stone, near village of Rosetta, Egypt 1799, Captain Boussard of Napoleon’s Army. Translated by J.F. Champollion in 1822. Approx. 200 B.C.; Greek, Demotic, Hieroglyphys (latter two are Egyptian). Decree by priests of Memphis honoring Ptolemy V, Epiphanes. Same decree in … Continue reading ““TRUTH
SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH”
(PSALM 85:11)
A CHART SHOWING A MAJOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL/BIBLICAL FIND EVERY
DECADE”

Bryant G. Wood During Israel’s earliest days as a nation, Shiloh was the most important city in the country. Joshua established it as a religious and civic center shortly after the Conquest in about 1400 B.C. and it retained that status until it was destroyed by the Philistines around 1050 B.C. Soon after, in about … Continue reading “SHILOH
— ISRAEL’S FIRST HOLY CITY”

William H. Shea [William H. Shea is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Andrews University in Barrien Springs, Michigan, and a frequent contributor to Bible and Spade.] When the sons of Jacob sought relief from famine in Egypt, and later when they, their families, and Jacob descended into Egypt to settle in the land of … Continue reading “ARTISTIC
BALANCE AMONG HE BENI HASAN ASIATICS”

Bargil (Virgil) Pixner, OSB [Father Pixner is a member of the Benedictine community in Israel, located at the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion and at Tabgha. He lectures at the Abbey’s Theological Faculty on Christian archaeology and the topography of Jerusalem.] Next to Jerusalem and Capharnaum, the town most frequently mentioned in the Gospels is … Continue reading “PUTTING
BETHSAIDA-JULIAS ON THE MAP”

On the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Gennesareth), a Christian site of major significance, buried for centuries, has been excavated by Israel’s Department of Antiquities, and has been imaginatively restored by the National Parks Authority. Around it, a park with trees, lawns and public facilities has been laid out for the convenience … Continue reading “FROM
ISRAEL:
RESTORATION AT KURSI
THE SITE OF THE HEALING OF THE MAN WITH THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT”

Alan R. Millard SOLOMON’S name lives today for two reasons, his wisdom and his magnificence. In English the man facing a difficult choice is said to need the wisdom of Solomon, echoing the story of the king who discerned which of two women was a child’s mother (1 Kings 3:16–28). His magnificence was immortalised in … Continue reading “SOLOMON
IN ALL HIS GLORY”