In this paper, we present a history of pastoralism in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. We describe the accretional developm
The city calledJerichocontains the word for moon, YARAK(H3394, YOD-RESH-HETH). Teachers are hearing the sound of YAH in completely unrelated words. They mistake the words Marya(master)and Yerushalem to be marYAH and YAHrushalem. JERUSALEM-IR + SHALOM, or YERUSHALEM Spelling:yod-resh-uau-...
It was larger than Jerusalem or Jericho, and it was a metropolis in the classical sense. It had a four-story palace, a temple, a ring road (we call these beltways when we build them now), and thirty-meter-thick city walls with defense towers. Outside the city's fortifications,...
310. // Inscription from Jericho: D.C. Baramki and St.H. Stephen, ‘A Nestorian hermitage between Jericho and the Jordan’, Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities of Palestine 4 (1934), 81-86, and plates LII-LIV; for the identifications, see J-M. Fiey, ‘Rabban Buya de ...
survey. The project’s first fieldwork achieved several goals. First, the modern methods enabled us to provide a high-resolution capture of the detected features and artifacts, including the courses of ancient roads and the locations of road-related archaeological sites. Altogether, 105 road ...