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The text is largely an account of a military campaign against the ancient Libyans, but the last three of the 28 lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, including the first documented instance of the name Israel in the historical record, and the only documented record in Ancient Egypt. COS 2.6 / ANET 376–378 / EP [3] Bubastite Portal
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
In Search of 'Ancient Israel': A Study in Biblical Origins, Sheffield (JSOT Press, 1992). Davis, Thomas, Shifting sands: the rise and fall of Biblical archaeology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Dever, William G., "Archaeology and the Bible: Understanding their special relationship", in Biblical Archaeology Review 16:3, (May/June 1990)
The book remarks that, despite modern archaeological investigations and the meticulous ancient Egyptian records from the period of Ramesses II, also known as Ozymandias (13th century B.C.), there is an obvious lack of any archaeological evidence for the migration of a band of Semitic people across the Sinai Peninsula, [20] except for the Hyksos.
List of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem is an incomplete list of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem.. In 1952 Father Jan Jozef Simons published Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Researches and Theories, [1] which was a complete list of all archaeological excavations in Jerusalem up until the Second World War; the book become the "Jerusalem Bible" for archaeologists.
A book of the programmes was published in March 1977. There were twelve programmes in the series, each of an hour duration, and the book's twelve chapters share their titles and subject matter. The first programme was shown on BBC2 on 20 January 1977 following filming the previous year in Egypt , Jordan , Israel , Syria and Iraq .
The inscription records the construction of the tunnel, which has been dated to the 8th century BC on the basis of the writing style. [1] It is the only known ancient inscription from ancient Israel and Judah which commemorates a public construction work, despite such inscriptions being commonplace in Egyptian and Mesopotamian archaeology.
Professor Thomas W. Davis noted that "all later archaeological research in Palestine is in some way indebted to [Robinson]. His geographical study marked a new era". [ 8 ] In a study of nineteenth century Biblical Studies in the United States, Jerry Wayne Brown described Robinson's work as "the most significant piece of American Biblical ...