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Apr 30, 2024 · Ancient Samaria and Jerusalem had a lot in common in the ninth and eighth centuries B.C.E. Both were part of David and Solomon’s United Kingdom of Israel in the tenth century, and both became capitals when it split into the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel. Jerusalem became the capital of Judah, and Samaria, Israel.
Mar 19, 2024 · Palatial Wall. Here is one of the excavated walls of the Samaria palace, where the kings of Israel reigned. In the Bible, we have a description of this palace as an “ivory house” (2 Kings 22:39). Photo: From Nahman Avigad, “Samaria (City),” in Ephraim Stern, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (1993).
Feb 3, 2020 · The Samaria hoard was found in 1910 in excavations that revealed that Samaria was a wealthy metropolis, center of the Omride dynasty until the Assyrians took over around 720 B.C.E. It is the largest collection of formal inscriptions, ink writing on broken pieces of pottery, or ostraca, yet found. These inscriptions are bureaucratic records ...
Aug 28, 2017 · Dated to the ninth or eighth century B.C.E. (the Iron Age), they were uncovered from the site of Samaria —the Biblical capital of the northern kingdom of Israel—during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of these ivories are on permanent display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and at museums throughout the world. A stag from the Samaria ivories.
Feb 26, 2023 · Using these accounts, García reconstructs three major routes between Galilee and Judea: an eastern, central, and western path. Three Pilgrimage Paths from Galilee to Jerusalem: (1) The central—and shortest—route goes through Samaria. Pilgrims would have passed the cities of Sepphoris, Nazareth, Tirzah, Shechem, Shiloh, and Bethel.
Jun 4, 2013 · Samaria was established by Omri as the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E., and according to the Hebrew Bible, six kings of Israel were buried at the site. Remains from Roman-era Sebaste (the site was rebuilt and renamed by Herod the Great in 30 B.C.E.) include a magnificent colonnaded street, a temple-lined ...
Sep 5, 2024 · These ruins once belonged to the temple on Mount Gerizim. Photo: Amos Meron/CC by-SA 3.0. Archaeological evidence shows that a temple was built on Mount Gerizim around 450 B.C.E. during the Persian period. The temple complex was expanded during the Hellenistic period around 200 B.C.E., and it functioned until the Maccabees destroyed it in 110 B ...
Sep 28, 2024 · Stern identifies the Phoenicians as Canaanites who survived into the first millennium B.C.E.: The Phoenicians were the late Canaanites of the first millennium B.C.E. (Iron Age through Roman period), descendants of the Canaanites of the second millennium B.C.E. (Middle Bronze Age through Late Bronze Age). “Phoenicians” was the name given to ...
Aug 11, 2014 · There is considerable scholarly controversy regarding the date of the Samaritan schism. Although some seek to identify the origins of the Samaritans in the Hellenistic period, their beginnings should be traced back to the 6th century B.C.E. When the Assyrians destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722, they exiled the upper crust of ...
May 19, 2024 · The story is told in Luke 10:29–37: A man going from Jerusalem to Jericho is attacked by robbers who strip him and beat him. A priest and a Levite pass by without helping him. But a Samaritan stops and cares for him, taking him to an inn where the Samaritan pays for his care. As Dr. Amy-Jill Levine discusses in a column in the January ...
