http://www.ritmeyer.com ...for the latest research, analysis and products on Biblical Archaeology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:11:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From June 19-27, 2009 a lecture tour in Germany has been planned. My wife Kathleen will join me. The first series will take place on June 19, 20 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, for see details here. The lecture titles are: 1. Reconstruction of Herod's Temple (Saturday 20, 9.30 - 11.30) 2. In Search of Solomon's ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/06/09/german-lecture-tour/ The Israel Antiquities Authority has embarked on a conservation project on the stones of the Western Wall. According to the IAA, "The work is focusing on the conservation treatment of the stones in the Western Wall and their stability, in accordance with their degree of preservation and the level of ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/04/08/western-wall-conservation/ The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association has recently awarded the ESV Study Bible the "2009 Bible of the Year" and the overall "Book of the Year"! The top scoring book in each category is named the Christian Book Award winner. The Christian Book of the Year is chosen among the finalists based ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/04/08/esvsb-award-winner/ Some of you may be interested in the following 8-part series on the historical Jesus: http://dod.org/Products/DOD2121.aspx It features the scholars of the IBR Jesus Study Group (Darrell Bock, Craig Evans, Grant Osborne, Michael Wilkins, et al.) discussing the conclusion of 10 years of research. It's filmed on location in Israel, and ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/03/11/historical-jesus/ During the month of March, anyone can access the ESV Study Bible for free at this website: http://www.esvstudybible.org/online It was a privilege to have worked on this wonderful project. This is what Justin Taylor (Project Director) wrote: "The ESVSB was published just over four months ago and there are already 300,000 copies in ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/03/10/free-online-version-of-the-esv-study-bible/ In the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, an article was published by Ehud Netzer, called "A New Reconstruction of Paul's Prison". Netzer is a respected and successful architect/archaeologist and well-known for his excavations of Herodium and Hasmonean and Herodian Jericho and other Herodian sites. Recently he amazingly found ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/02/02/the-antonia-herods-temple-mount-fortress/ Joseph Lauer passed on this interesting information: "Dr. Eliot Braun noted on the ANE-2 list that the January 9, 2009 Ha'aretz Hebrew online edition has an illustrated report about the discovery in the City of David excavations led by Dr. Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron of a miniature ivory pomegranate ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/01/10/ivory-pomegranate-found-in-city-of-david-excavations/ The Messiah in the Temple is an exciting project with the aim of developing a 3-D visual media of the Temple of Jerusalem. This project was conceived by the project manager Martin Severin. After reading Roger Liebi's book of that name and my book "The Quest - Revealing the Temple ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2009/01/05/the-messiah-in-the-temple/ In May this year, I was asked to join the National Geographic team on a poster supplement for the December Issue of the magazine. The subject of the poster was the history and architecture of the Temple Mount. I had the opportunity to meet with Fernando Baptista and Patricia Healy ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2008/12/05/the-temple-mount-and-the-national-geographic/ One of the readers of my blog commented on an interesting connection between the Colosseum and the Temple of Jerusalem, mentioning that Prof. Louis Feldman had discovered an interesting inscription in the Colosseum in Rome. This is the stone with the inscription: I met Prof. Feldman when I was in New ... http://www.ritmeyer.com/2008/12/01/the-temple-of-jerusalem-and-the-colosseum/