Evidence of the Babylonian Destruction of Jerusalem
Further evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians has been discovered during excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Jerusalem Walls-City of David National Park.1
Structures datin…
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Speaking during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust memorial monument in Paris, President of France, Emmanuel Macron, confronted the record of French complicity in the Holocaust. Macron acknowledged France’s collaboration with the Nazis and its direct role in the roundup and deportatio…
In an astonishing irony, Isis (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)1 has uncovered valuable inscriptions and other antiquities from the Assyrian empire. Iraqi troops advancing on Mosul alerted archaeologists to ancient objects found in tunnels dug under a mound by Isis. Isis has been notorio…
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It is impossible to separate the First Zionist Congress from the towering figure of Theodor Herzl. Without his forceful and determined personality, it is doubtful that the Congress would have taken place. But in the providence of God, Herzl was the instrument to unite the Jewish people behind the Z…
One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago: The First Zionist Congress, August, 1897 Read More »
An ancient gold coin bearing the image of the Roman Emperor, Nero, has been discovered in archaeological excavations just outside the Old City of Jerusalem. The coin was found in the excavations of the Mount Zion Project, co-directed by Shimon Gibson, Visiting Professor of Archaeology at the U…
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The American author, Mark Twain, and Theodor Herzl, the Zionist leader, may seem unlikely associates. In fact, they not only knew of each other but became good friends. Both were journalists, having met in Paris in 1894,1 the year of the Dreyfus Affair.
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the Fre…
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When the prophet Jonah fled from the presence of God to Tarshish, he took a ship from Joppa on the west coast of Israel (Jon 1:3). From Joppa the ship would sail westward on its journey to Tarshish.
Tarshish was one of Tyre’s important trading partners and Ezekiel provides a catalogue of its pr…
Tarshish, Cornwall and Tin and Gold Trade in the Ancient World When Read More »
Situated to the east of the Jordan River and to the north of Israel, the kingdom of Geshur was in the region of Mount Herman, Maachah and Bashan (Josh 12:5). Although the territory was designated as a possession of Manasseh, when Israel entered the land under Joshua the Geshurites were not expelled,…
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Early critics of the Bible maintained that the Hebrews did not write earlier than the late period of the kings.1 An extended period of oral transmission was believed to have preceded the writing of the Old Testament. But archaeological discoveries in the nineteenth century revised the view of th…
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Our understanding of Bible prophecy, based on Ezekiel chapter 38 and related texts, casts Russia as the enemy of Israel: the latter day head of a confederacy determined to subjugate the prosperous Jewish state. All of this is correct but it is also true that Russia played a pivotal role in the estab…
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