The Earliest Music in Ancient Egypt - ASOR Archives - The ASOR Blog
The Earliest Music in Ancient Egypt - ASOR Archives - The ASOR Blog
Music is a human universal. But the beginnings of Egyptian music are much earlier […]
Judaism has a rich tradition of magic going back over two thousand years […]
Noted Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein looks back on almost 50 years in the field […]
In the hills to the east of modern Tel Aviv is a site occupied from the Iron Age until 1948 […]
What does it take to move a stone weighing 50 tons […]
The Negev is filled with rock art from all periods. But a newly discovered type of figure suggests that visitors from outside the Levant […]
Among the many accusations that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible level at their contemporaries, child sacrifice is one of the most egregious […]
Today we mostly think of pigeons as pests. But the thing that make pigeons a problem for us was a valuable resource […]
“Fake news” is a problem besetting modern societies. Can learning to read the Bible carefully help us develop better skills […]
Humans have always needed a wide range of medicines, but until recently, there has been little archaeological evidence […]
Writing the ‘history of Israel’ has traditionally begun with the Biblical texts […]
We speak of the Abrahamic faiths sharing the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. But far from unifying Jews, Christians and Muslims, biblical texts divided them […]
All cultures create models of the cosmos in words and images; the ancient Greeks were the first to make a mechanical working model of the cosmos […]
Every few years, the media report new finds of ancient texts that supposedly throw revolutionary new light on the Biblical world and Christian origins. What if very few of these were really new […]
What happens to everyday religious practices when there are major cultural and political shifts? Take the example of amulets, incantations written on papyrus, parchment, metal, or other, and the transition to Christianity […]
One of the most remarkable anomalies of Jewish history is that its most popular literature…one of the most remarkable anomalies of Jewish history is that its most popular literature […]
Messianism is one of those classic topics in Jewish studies that suffers not for lack of attention but rather for confusion […]
The site of Eridu had a special place in the Mesopotamian tradition. In Babylonian literature the relevance of Eridu […]
The Exodus is at the core of the Bible: understanding it requires a fusion of archaeology and texts. But a new interpretation suggests that scholars should be looking for […]
What was the ‘actual’ role of ancient Egyptian magic in the royal palace […]