Islamic State’s Defeat Doesn’t Mean Victory for the U.S.
Fighting terror and containing the Iran-Russia alliance.
July 12, 2017
Archaeological Clues for Delineating the Borders of Ancient Judah
Pillar figurines and rosette stamps confirm the biblical account.
From the 8th to the 6th centuries BCE, the Kingdom of Judah was the sole Israelite polity in the land of Israel; it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Persian empire, after seizing the territory for itself, created a province called Yehud, which existed from the 5th through the 3rd centuries BCE. Drawing on the distribution of ancient artifacts, Ephraim Stern argues that there is sufficient evidence to reconstruct the geographical borders of these areas:
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The Anti-Defamation League Seems Unable to Come to Terms with Left-Wing Anti-Semitism
Betraying its mission.
Will Avi Gabbay Lead Israel’s Labor Party to a Comeback?
A businessman and child of Moroccan immigrants is a sharp break from the socialist past.
S.Y. Agnon’s Tribute to the Martyrs of His Hometown
He positions himself not as a subtly ironic modernist but as a humble, heartbroken preserver of memory.
Archaeological Clues for Delineating the Borders of Ancient Judah
Pillar figurines and rosette stamps confirm the biblical account.