A rabbi and Bible scholar joins us to talk about his trips to biblical Egypt, and about the role of Egypt in the Jewish imagination.
“An earthquake in biblical scholarship” is how the discovery has been described. That’s true, as are the connections it reveals between ancient languages and modern ones.
Surprisingly unchanging.
Not the exclusive domain of scribes
A virtual tour of Usha.
Women played key roles in economic and ritual life.
A once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
Fire beacons for the new moon.
Buried treasure.
Latin milestones mark the way.
One of the remaining mysteries of physics.
But others disagree.
A video tour.
Fifteen-hundred years ago.