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Terra-cotta pillar figurines are found throughout the biblical territory of Judah and date to the eighth to seventh centuries BCE. Most were decorated with a white background layer and one or more…
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Lachish, Land of Israel
(Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 8th–7th Century BCE
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Paul Goldman
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Herzliya, Israel
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1957
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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let…
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From movies to civil-rights movements, the Exodus stands at the center of Western thought and culture. You will still be surprised by what is, and what isn’t, in the account.
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This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of…
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In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, wine was set before him; I took the wine and gave it to the king—I had never been out of sorts in his presence. The king…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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The Israelites again did what was offensive to the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock…
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You shall not tolerate a sorceress.
Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone shall be proscribed.
You shall not wrong…
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