Islamic Texts Provide Evidence That Belies Palestinian Propaganda about the Temple Mount
The Jews who first acquainted Muslim scholars with Jerusalem.
June 3, 2020
The Museum of the Bible Is Winning Over Its Biggest Critics
A look at the Washington Pentateuch.
Speaking at a 2017 academic conference, a scholar of ancient Judaism condemned fellow professors of Jewish studies who had worked as consultants for the Washington, DC Museum of the Bible as “court Jews” who had “taken their 30 pieces of silver from the Green family”—referring to the owners of Hobby Lobby who have funded the museum. Even setting such rhetoric aside, the museum has made real mistakes: acquiring fake Dead Sea Scroll fragments, illegally imported Iraqi artifacts, and thousands of items it has since deemed “improperly provenanced.”
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A Liberal Arts College’s Disgraceful Treatment of a Pro-Israel Professor Has a Lesson to Teach the Academic World as a Whole
Salem on the Thames.
In Iraq, the U.S. Can Learn from Israel’s Approach to Confronting Iran
The campaign between the wars.
The Museum of the Bible Is Winning Over Its Biggest Critics
A look at the Washington Pentateuch.
Maintaining the Mysterious Eternal Continuity of the Jewish People May Be the Best Revenge against the Nazis
Dwight Eisenhower and Meyer Birnbaum.