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Shikma Brewery to produce exclusive limited-edition beer for the exhibition, based on ancient beer produced in ancient Israel.

Judges 16:25-26, 29-30 (RSV) And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may make sport for us." So they called Samson out of the Four Philistine temples have been found in Israel, and all have two pillars in the center of the main halls: precisely like those in Samson's death-scene in the Bible.

A new paleomagnetic study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has helped to clarify the dates of destruction at various Iron Age sites in Israel.

A new book by professor Jonathan Friedmann examines the recent phenomenon of sympathetic treatments of Davids biblical opponent.

(page 1 of 1 - view all) The field of biblical archaeology has been rocked, so to speak, by dramatic new finds in the heart of ancient Jerusalem. For the last few years, a number of respected archaeologists have posited that the biblical accounts of Jerusalem as the seat of a powerful, unified monarchy under the rule of David and Solomon are essentially false. The most prominent of these is Israel Finkelstein, the chairman of Tel Aviv University’s archaeology department, whose 2001 book The ...