In April 2020, a small square-shaped clay object, possibly a docket, was found on the surface of Tell Jemmeh. The object bears an image of a soldier leading a bound naked captive, a rare motif in the iconography of the Southern Levant. By comparing and contrasting ancient Near Eastern parallels, thi...
This study theologises on the Urban Poor Women and Children with Academics for Reaching and Delivering on UNSDGs in the Philippines (UPWARD-UP) Project research team's collaboration with the Alliance of Peoples' Organisation Along the Manggahan Floodway (Alliance), Philippines. We posit that the the...
1. Studying ancient fishing in the far West Dealing with fishing in the Strait Region in Antiquity (fig. 1) inevitably means to discussing fish-processing and at the same time about producing salt and the use of salt-works, and identifying a convincing relationship between these activities. However,...
The publication of a Middle Bronze Age scarab found in an Early Roman period rock-cut burial cave at Naḥal Aviv in the Upper Galilee serves as a platform for the following additional issues: The precise definition of the scarab’s side type; the possible time span of its production; the preferable ch...
This article discusses the Mekal stele, a New Kingdom funerary stele from Beth-Shean (northern Palestine) depicting a certain Amenemopet and his son Paraemheb worshipping a god named “Mekal, god of Beth-Shean”. Mekal is a most mysterious god, as he still lacks secure identification in other Egyptian...
Social-scientific criticism refers to an interpretation of the biblical text that takes into cognizance the social system that produced that text. This article presents a social scientific reading of the faith of a Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:21-28. The article outlines models of social systems in...
Scarabs found in Ramesside contexts in the Levant are generally considered as Egyptian imports. Yet, the possibility of local scarab production in the southern Levant during the early Ramesside period was considered in the case of scarabs displaying an archaization of Canaanite Middle Bronze Age des...
Papyrus Rhind and other papyri which were kept and even written or copied in Avaris suggest strongly that the Hyksos employed Egyptian scribes and perhaps even schools of scribes. It is possible that these scribes were employed during the Hyksos Period from the former centres of Egyptian administrat...
This study focuses on the women's stories that imply aspects of anti-Judaism within Matthew's depiction of Christology, which is called Matthew's theology. In fact, Matthew's community opposed the Jewish system and Jewish leaders and parted from its parent body. Even though Matthew's community was s...
The Life, Death and Long After-life of a Canaanite Temple Sharon Zuckerman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The phenomenon of conservatism and long-endurance of sacred space is well-known in the multi-period tells of the Ancient Near East, and was demonstrated and analysed in many regional and tem...
The aim of the article is to describe the state of Matthean studies by means of Paul Ricoeur's notion of the 'hermeneutical arc'. The focus will be on the relationship of women in Matthew's gospel to the male disciples. The article's point of departure is that Matthean exegesis is at a crossroads. P...
Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges for Christianity today. If we adequately want to meet this challenge we need to develop a new vision of our human relationship to nature (Conradie). Can the Bible serve as a basis for such a new vision? Or is it part of the problem? This has bee...
A long and justified standing controversy exists on the Eichmann Trial and the historiography of the Holocaust. Shapira details here with another aspect of the debate, the often delayed effect of this trial on Israeli society. Using two different individuals present in the audience, at the 1961 Eich...
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