The six-chambered Iron Age gate at Ashdod was recently re-excavated so that it can be conserved and opened to the public in a new Israeli national park.
The IDF will allow Israelis a rare opportunity to visit “Solomon’s Pools,” south of Bethlehem, on one day during Passover.
Doron Spielman has been involved in excavations in the City of David for more than 20 years, and he has stories to tell. Mosaic Magazine (registration req’d) has published an excerpt from a forthcoming book that describes a crawl through a long tunnel and the drama concerning the purchase of the Givati Parking Lot.
The latest video in the Biblical Images of God series looks at the metaphor of “Rock of Refuge.”
Zoom webinar on April 16: “The Dying Child: Death and Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel,” by Kristine Garroway
Conference on April 27-29: “Jerusalem through the Ages: New Perspectives.” The conference will be held at Schloss Beuggen, Rheinfelden, Germany, and broadcast on Zoom.
Hybrid lecture at the Albright on April 28: “A Biography of an Excavation: The Austrian-German Expedition to Tell Balata/Shechem 1913–1939,” by Felix Höflmayer and Agnes Woitzuck
Avi Hurvitz, longtime professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died last week.
Jerusalem University College’s Online Summer Institute has announced this year’s classes:
- Deuteronomy’s Place, taught by Cyndi Parker
- Exodus: From the River to the Mountain, taught by Oliver Hersey
- Geographical Voices in the Psalms, taught by Paul Wright
- Holy People, Holy Land: A Journey through Leviticus, taught by Christine Palmer
- The Historical and Literary Development of Shabbat, taught by Rabbi Moshe Silberschein
HT: Agade, Gordon Franz, Wayne Stiles, Ted Weis, Explorator
