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That's the law in Israel, where civilization goes back at least 5,000 years and where a major archaeological find could be lurking under any given square foot of real estate. Just about every empire since the beginning of Western history has occupied these lands, or fought over them...
Secular Israelis have failed to locate their own collective identity within the long chain of Jewish history. It is not that they have suddenly ceased to be religiously observant. They were never observant, and that was fine. But even the most fervently secular Israelis used to have a degree of...
And then there is the other trend. Religious rightists, especially those settlers who are wedded to the Greater Israel of the Bible, have ceased to see any value in the secular state as such. As the late Israeli philospher Yeshayahu Leibowitz noted, religious rightists are too often incapable of distinguishing...
"Let us pray for that person's soul," Coles said of Lewis. "There was a moment in the Bible when it was said that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, and let us remember that--those of you who are big shots, let us remember...
After eight years of excavations, archaeologists believe they have uncovered the more than 4,000-year-old, long-lost city of Urkesh. Buried beneath a town in northeastern Syria, Urkesh was reputed to have been a thriving religious center for the ancient Hurrians, a civilization cited briefly in the Bible...