Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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The first part of this article deals with the story of the birth of Yaakov and Esav and establishes that their birth set the tone for the experiences they...
Dr. Brachi Elitzur
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What is Yitzchak's mission? Yitzchak is born into something that already exists, and his job is to preserve it even under the most difficult conditions....
Rabbi Yair Kahn
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After Sedom and Amora were destroyed, Avraham woke up and returned to the spot where he had argued and appealed to Hashem on behalf of the people of Sedom...
Part 9 - The Unified Kingdom (continued)
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
Between 2007 and 2012, excavations were undertaken at Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Ela Valley, discovering the ruins of a large fortified city surrounded by an...
Part 8 - The Unified Kingdom
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
All agree that in Eretz Yisrael during the period of the monarchy (referred to by archaeologists as the Iron Age II), there was a real upheaval, with a...
Part 7 - The Era of Settlement
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
All scholars working in the field of biblical archaeology recognize the existence of a significant process of settlement in the central mountainous region...
Part 6 - Yehoshua and the Conquest of the Land of Israel
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
The conquest of the land of Israel is described at length in Sefer Yehoshua, and the conventional view, based on a superficial reading of the text, is...
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
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Until recently, doubts as to the veracity of the story of the exodus were rejected out of hand by most biblical scholars in Israel for two reasons:
The...
Part 4 - The Era of the Forefathers (continued)
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
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Many social and legal phenomena described in Sefer Bereishit conform to what we know today about the laws and practices of various peoples in the ancient...
Part 3 - The Era of the Forefathers
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
The stories of the forefathers in and of themselves cannot be proved or disproved from an archaeological point of view. The main discussion in this regard...
