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Intro: The Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III was discovered in 1861 by the British archaeologist J. E. Taylor, who at the time was serving as the British consul at Diyarbekir in southeastern Turkey. Taylor uncovered the monument at the site of Kurkh, modern Üçtepe, located near the upper Tigris River. It is one of the…
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1QHadayota Photo The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by David Harris From the Israel Museum publications 1998 Introduction In the spring of 1947, the same year that the nation of Israel would start to become a reality for the first time in over 2,000 years–a young Arab shepherd climbed into a cave in the Judean Desert and stumbled…
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What does it mean to atone for one’s misdoings? How does one restore cosmic and social order after crossing into a state of impurity or disruption? For the ancient Israelites this was completed in a prescriptive annual rite referred to as Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, instituted in Leviticus 16. It stands at the ritual peak…
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