Canaan/Palestine resource for agricultural produce

9 Mar 2026 · by Guestspeaker | in History, Man, Nature | tagged 1° Temple period, 2 Kings 25:12, 2° Temple Period, Agricultural productivity, Babatha bat Shimʿon = Babatha = Babata, Bar Kokhba revolt, Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:10-12, Deuteronomy 8:7, Ecology of Palestine, ʿEin-Gedi, Hellenistic Maresha, Iron Age II (ca. 900–600 bce), Irrigation rights, Jeremiah 39:10, Jeremiah 40:10, Jeremiah 40:12, Jeremiah 41:8, Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, Krmyn = vine-dressers, Nebuchadnezzar (605–552), Oil pressing, Palestine, Resource for agricultural produce, Shephelah, Tel Batash, Tel Miqne-Ekron, Wine making, Ygbym = field hands | Leave a comment

Canaan/Palestine was known in antiquity as a resource for agricultural produce. Time and again the land was invaded and looted due to its agricultural richness such as grain, wine, oil, and woollen garments. When Nebuchadnezzar captured and destroyed Jerusalem in 587/586 bce and exiled the leadership and the nobility, he ensured that agricultural productivity would […]

The past 12 months have seen regular announcements of developments and discoveries

30 Dec 2021 · by Bijbelvorsers | in Archaeology, Biblical places, History, Man, World | tagged 2° Temple Period, 300 BCE, 33, Archaeologists, Archaeology, Ashkelon, Avshalom-Gorni, Bible Researchers, Book of the Twelve = Minor Prophets, Border stele, Byzantine period, Canaanite alphabetic inscriptions, Canaanite site, Cave of Horror, Central Egypt, Charles Warren, City of Akhetaten, Dead Sea Scrolls, Discovery, Egypt, Exodus, Gideon, Israel, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerub-baal = Let Baal contend with him, Judges 6:31–32, Judges 8:14, Khirbat er-Ra'i, King Herod, Late Bronze Age, Lifetime of Jesus, Luxor, Magdala, Migdal, Migdal Synagogue, Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV = Akhenaten, Philistine influence, Shephelah region (Israel), Tel Ashkelon National Park, Tel Lachish, Understanding the world of the Bible, West bank of the Nile, Wine production, Winepress production area(s), Yavne, Yehud Medinata or Persian period | 3 Comments

Looking at some of the most important findings in 2021.

Was there a “Septuagint Canon”?

26 Mar 2018 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible or Holy Scriptures, History | tagged 1 BCE, 2° Century, 2° Temple Period, 4° Century, 5° Century, Albert Sundberg, Alexandrian biblical chronology, Alexandrian Jewish groups, Apocrypha, Book 1–2 Maccabees, Book Judith, Book Sirach/Ecclesiasticus, Book Tobit, Book Wisdom of Solomon, Christian theological studies, Codex Sinaiticus, Complutensian Polyglot Bible, Deuterocanonical books, Early Christianity, Edmon L. Gallagher, Egypt, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (Cardinal Ximénes), Jewish Alexandrian Canon, Jewish canon, John D. Meade, Justin Martyr, Old Testament, Palestinian Jewish canon of Josephus, Palestinian Nebiim (Prophets), Philo Judaeus (Philo of Alexandria), Rahlfs’s Septuaginta, Septuagint Canon, Septuagint or LXX, Wisdom books | 6 Comments

In biblical and theological instruction and writing, it is common to refer to “the LXX” or “the Septuagint.” Old Testament / Hebrew Bible scholars refer to the LXX as the oldest translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and scholars in New Testament and early Christian studies refer to the Septuagint as the text which the New […]

Operation Scroll offering 12th cave findings

8 Mar 2017 · by Bijbelvorsers | in Archaeology, News and Politics | tagged 10 Commandments, 1° Century, 1° Century BCE, 2° Temple Period, Biblical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Great Jewish Revolt (66-73 CE), Hebrew Bible, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel Hasson, Israel’s Hebrew University, Judean Desert, Oren Gutfeld, Qumran, Randall Price, Virginia’s Liberty University, West Bank | 4 Comments

In the late 1940s, young Bedouin goatherds discovered a cave in the Judean Desert, bored like the path of a giant termite into the hillside. Within the cave the teenagers found something puzzling: ancient jars in rows. The jars held the first of the parchments that would come to be known as the Dead Sea […]

Dead Sea Scrolls available at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls digitization project

3 Jan 2013 · by Bijbelvorsers | in Archaeology, History | tagged 2° Century, 2° Century bCE, 2° Temple Period, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Scroll, Google, Hebrew Bible, Israel, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel Antiquities Authority library, Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, Jerusalem, John D. Rockefeller Jr., John Garstang, Judean Desert, Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, National Inheritance Foundation, Qumran, Rockefeller Museum, Yad Hanadiv Foundation | 7 Comments

Between the 2nd century bce and 2nd century ce the majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written. During this time, different Judean groups struggled to obtain and maintain political and religious leadership. As primary sources, the Dead Sea Scrolls shed light on these historical events and explore the ways that various Jews of the […]

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