On this fragmentary stela, written in Aramaic in the late ninth century BCE and found at the city of Dan in northern Israel, an Aramaean king, perhaps Hazael of Damascus, records his defeat of two Israelite kings, possibly Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, and also Ahaziah, son of Joram of the House of David, king of Judah. Many of the restorations, though based on similar texts, are uncertain.
Laws of Hammurabi on Babylonian Stela, eighteenth century BCE. The stela was originally placed in the temple of the god Marduk in the city of Babylon. Inset shows part of the prologue.
Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
Yesterday morning Roi was murdered. He was lulled by the quiet of the spring morning and did not notice those lying in wait in the furrow.
Today, let us not cast aspersions at the murderers. How can…