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Equating a modern political situation to an event in the Bible is deeply problematic; the narratives often lack the complexity and nuance that exist in the world we know. For Asnes, the current conflict can be summed up in two straightforward identities: Israelis = biblical Egyptians = bad, while Palestinians = biblical Israelites...
During the day, Waddle is now completely at the mercy of the Navy's disciplinary system; during the night, of his own tortured memories of seeing nine people die. In the early hours of the morning he decided to testify at the Navy inquiry, Waddle opened the Bible. He had...
Pity poor Jabez. For some 2,500 years, he languished in one of those endless biblical genealogies, as the 35th "son of Judah" enumerated in the Book of Chronicles, just after the listings for his relatives Anub and Zobebah. Upon reaching him, the biblical author breaks stride, but only for...
To Jews, the most important moment in this reverent progression occurred in about 1000 B.C. That is the date believers assign to the biblical description of King David's unification of the Israelite tribes and his choice of Jerusalem as his capital. The Bible's book of Samuel also recounts...
Or did he? Outside of the Bible, there is only the scantest evidence of either King's existence. A mere two commemorative inscriptions have been found referring to a "House of David," both from a later period. Solomon's trail is even colder. His name appears on a cylindrical seal...