November – December 2018
The 1930 Passfield Paper was Britain’s attempt to curb the growing Jewish migration in a hope to please the Arab leaders. However, the ever-increasing Jewish persecution in central and eastern Europe meant that Jewish migration (legal or not) was still on the rise. In 1935 the Jewish annual migrat…
The British White Papers of the Mandatory Palestine (3) Read More »
We often take our hearing for granted. Whether it is the calming sound of the waves as they collapse upon the shore, or the delightful strains of a gentle symphony, hearing just seems to happen and with little effort on our part!
But behind all of this lies a mechanism that is tremendously …
The Human Ear (Part 1) Read More »
Motherhood is one of the most highly praised roles in the Bible. It is designated even more highly than any role a husband might aspire to.
For instance, in Timothy, Paul says that aspiring to be a “bishop” is a “good thing” (1 Tim 3:1) but in the previous chapter he describ…
Lev 11:13,19—And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls… the lapwing
The Hebrew word translated ‘lapwing’ is dukiphath and nearly all biblical naturalists and commentators agree that it refers to the hoopoe—so called because of the ‘hoop’ sound o…
A Natural History of Biblical Lands (3) Read More »
