A scholar of the Ottoman Empire discusses a history of Palestinians’ claims to land being ignored. By...
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The Masjid al-Aqsa of Jerusalem is linked in the Quran to the story of the night journey...
Caligula made Herod king of the territories of Gaulanitis (the Golan Heights), Auranitis, Batanaea, and Trachonitis. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...
The Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, known to the Jewish people as Temple Mount, is at the center of...
Finkelstein has carried out his own fieldwork in a variety of sites and regions in Israel and...
The inscription hence records the construction of the tunnel in ancient Jerusalem. Introduction The Siloam inscription or Shiloah inscripti, known...
Oral-and-literate ancient Israel probably had performance settings that were standardized for its oral narrative literature. By Dr....
Immediately following the deposition of Herod Archelaus in 6 CE as a client king, Judea was turned...
Following the installation of client kingdoms under the Herodian dynasty, the Province of Judea was wracked by...
Judas Maccabeus prevailing over the Seleucids, painting by Gustav Dore (1832-1883) / Wikimedia Commons Judas Maccabeus’ death...
Ruins of the ancient Great Synagogue at Capernaum (or Kfar Nahum) on the shore of the Lake...
Impression of a Sumerian cylinder seal from the Early Dynastic IIIa period (ca. 2600 BC). Persons drinking...
Kudurru of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur granting LAK-ti Marduk freedom from taxation for services rendered during his invasion of Elam...
Ruins of the ancient Great Synagogue at Capernaum (or Kfar Nahum) on the shore of the Lake...
By the 3rd millennium BCE, the southern Levant was a land of small, fortified towns and villages,...
Medieval map of Jerusalem by Konrad Grünenberg / Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom of Israel was created after the...
Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president / Jerusalem Post The longing for Zion, the hope that the dispersed Jews...
A conservator shows a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority say belonged...
Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall, Jerusalem / Photo by Peter Mulligan, Creative Commons By Dr. Michael...
“The Trump administration is giving Israel the green light to entrench a separate and unequal one-state reality...
By John LeDell / 01.02.2017 There is a lot of confusion about the variety of peace plans...
By John LeDell / 12.31.2016 Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank has been called benign by...
A couple walk in the Israeli settlement of Maale Edumim, in the occupied West Bank on December...
Palestinian Loss of Land, 1947 to Present – Click Image to Enlarge The writer goes around the...
Zionism excavates its secular justification from the Jerusalem dirt By Molly Oringer Doctoral Student in Cultural Anthropology...
“I don’t want my children to live my life. I’m looking for a future for my children and...
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I...
Ameera Harouda Ameera Harouda leads journalists to the harrowing (and often hidden) stories of the Gaza Strip...
Students tape their mouths shut in support for Steve Salaita, a professor who lost a job offer...