Ending the Palestinian “Internationalization” Strategy
And moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
March 24, 2017
Looking for the Lost Archives of Hazor, Joshua’s Greatest Conquest
Cuneiform tablets could shed light on the biblical account of the Israelite arrival in Canaan.
In describing the Israelite invasion of Canaan, the book of Joshua gives special attention to the conquest of Hazor, noting that, while Joshua told his troops to leave other defeated cities intact, he ordered Hazor burned. The archaeologists who discovered the ruins of Hazor in the 20th century ascertained that the city had, in fact, been destroyed in a major fire, and around the time the Israelite invasion is thought to have taken place. Marek Dospěl describes the current search for the city’s putative archives:
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What the Arrest of an Israeli Teenager Does—and Doesn’t—Say about the Threat of Anti-Semitism
The ADL needs to clean house.
Arabic Literature’s Renewed Interest in Jews, after Decades of Erasure
Once upon a time, Jews lived here.
The West’s Crisis of Meaning in the Post-Religious Age
A maximum of choice and a minimum of meaning.
Looking for the Lost Archives of Hazor, Joshua’s Greatest Conquest
Cuneiform tablets could shed light on the biblical account of the Israelite arrival in Canaan.