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September 11, 2019September 19, 2019 windlebry

Biblical Sites: Is el-Araj Bethsaida?

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Biblical Sites: Is et-Tell Bethsaida?

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The inscription announces Cyrus’ general policy of returning exiles to their “dwellings” and allowing them to take their gods with them and rebuild their “sanctuaries.” The Jewish people had no idols, so the articles that had been taken from the Temple were returned.  The Cyrus Cylinder then contains the general policy announcement, and the declaration in Ezra 1:1-3 is the specific announcement to the Jewish people.  This confirms the biblical claim that Cyrus allowed the Jewish people who had been captured by the Babylonians to return to their homeland and rebuild their temple.  In fact, many now hail the Cyrus Cylinder as the first declaration of human rights and a copy of it resides in the headquarters of the United Nations. Read more in THREE PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS RELATED TO JEWISH HISTORY. https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/04/05/three-persian-inscriptions-related-to-jewish-history/ #Bible #Archaeology #BibleArchaeology #BiblicalArchaeology #ArchaeologyLovers #ArchaeologyLife #Archaeologia #History #BibleHistory #BiblicalHistory #Israel #Persia #BibleArchaeologyReport
Here is the second article of our two-part series on the location of biblical Bethsaida. In this post we explore the evidence for el-Araj. https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/09/11/biblical-sites-is-el-araj-bethsaida/ #Bible #Archaeology #BibleArchaeology #BiblicalArchaeology #ArchaeologyLovers #Archaeologia #ArchaeologyLife #History #BibleHistory #BiblicalHistory #Bethsaida #BibleArchaeologyReport
Two primary sites have been proposed as biblical Bethsaida: et-Tell and el-Araj. In the first of a two-part series, we explore the evidence for et-Tell. https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/09/05/biblical-sites-is-et-tell-bethsaida/ #Bible #Archaeology #BibleArchaeology #BiblicalArchaeology #ArchaeologyLovers #Archaeologia #ArchaeologyLife #Bethsaida #BibleArchaeologyReport
For years the location of the fortress of AIi that Joshua and the Israelites conquered was a mystery. Various sites were proposed, but none met the biblical criteria for Ai. Between 1995 and 2017 the Associates for Biblical Research (BibleArchaeology.org) excavated at Khirbet el-Maqatir and meticulously uncovered a fortified settlement from the time of Joshua that met the biblical criteria and had been destroyed by fire in the Late Bronze Age I. The Bible describes the presence of women at Ai in Joshua 8:25, which would initially seem a strange thing at a border military fortress.  However, archaeological evidence of this came in 2009 when an infant burial jar was discovered at Khirbet el-Maqatir with the child’s remains scattered around the jar.  The typology of the offering vessels and the burial jar itself suggest that the infant was buried sometime around 1500 B.C. Read more about the discoveries at Khirbet el-Maqatir that indicate the lost fortress of Ai has been found: https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/04/12/biblical-sites-ai/ #Bible #archaeology #biblearchaeology #biblicalarchaeology #history #biblehistory #biblicalhistory #archaeologia #archaeologylife #archaeologylovers #ai #conquest #joshua #LateBronzeAge #BibleArchaeologyReport

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