Category Archives: News

Lecture on “Re-excavating Jerusalem” in Oxford

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

A great reason to visit the “city of dreaming spires” The Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford) is pleased to invite friends and colleagues to: The Seventh Annual Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture: Dr Kay Prag, University … Continue reading →

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2nd International Temple Mount Awareness Day

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

In the Book of Exodus we read about the construction of the Tabernacle. On the first day of the first month (called ‘Rosh Chodesh Nisan’ in Hebrew) of the second year after coming out from Egypt, the Tabernacle was put … Continue reading →

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The 70 books

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

If there was an award for Most Timely Blog, it should be awarded to Todd Bolen for his post yesterday called Early Christian Lead Books Discovery: Some Problems. With claims such as have been made for this discovery, ones’s in-box … Continue reading →

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Earthquake preparedness in Israel

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

I used our new CD-ROM, The Seven Churches of Revelation – Walking among the Lampstands, to teach part of a course on The Archaeology of the New Testament yesterday. Having read this article in Arutz Sheva on Israel’s earthquake preparedness, … Continue reading →

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More pics of Fake Arab tombs near the Siloam Pool in Ancient Jerusalem

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

My son Nathaniel Ritmeyer was in Israel last month and took these photographs of the location of the fake tombs at the southern tip of the City of David, above the stepped Siloam Reservoir and King’s Garden. Tweet(function() { var po … Continue reading →

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Fake Arab tombs near the Siloam Pool in Ancient Jerusalem

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

Ferrell Jenkins reports on what looks like fake tombs on a small plot of land near the Siloam Pool in Ancient Jerusalem: They certainly look fake, as normally tombstones are added after first a stone or concrete enclosure has been … Continue reading →

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Jerusalem’s “Small Kotel” is not a holy site

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

In a previous post, we reported on the opening of the Small Kotel as a place for Jewish prayer. Now, however, it has been reported in IsraelNationalNews (Arutz Sheva) that the State of Israel has decided that the site is … Continue reading →

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Jordanians finance restoration work in the Dome of the Rock

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

See the report here. Reading about the on-going renovations in the Dome of the Rock made us turn to the magisterial work of the recently deceased Oleg Grabar on Early Islamic Jerusalem: “The Shape of the Holy.” Within its pages, … Continue reading →

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First Temple Period Archaeological Site to be opened in Jerusalem

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority report the following: For those of you who will be in Israel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011, please join us at the festive opening ceremony for the First Temple Period Archaeological Site recently … Continue reading →

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Circling the Gates of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Leen Ritmeyer

Gil Ronen & Yoni Kempinski report in Arutz Sheva on the monthly Circling of the Gates, which includes a video clip: Thousands of people took part Sunday evening in “The Circling of the Gates” – Sivuv Shearim in Hebrew – … Continue reading →

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