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What Abraham, Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known, c. 1850-1500 BCE
From CojsWiki
- Overview
- The Mists of Antiquity 2000-1000 BC, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem: Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991.
- Biblical History: From Abraham to Moses, c. 1850-1200 BCE, Steven Feldman, COJS.
- Artifacts
Ain Ghazal Statues, 7th millennium BCE
Ugarit, 6000-1200 BCE
Copper Mace Heads, c. 4500–3200 BCE
Burial Cave, c. 4500–3200 BCE
Alabaster Statuette, 3300 BCE
Abydos Tablets, c. 3400-3300 BCE
Royal Tombs of Ur, 2600-2500 BCE
Pyramids, c. 2500 BCE
Ebla Tablets, 2580–2450 BCE
Statue of Kaaper, c. 2450 BCE
The Babylonian Map, 2360-2150 BCE
Mathematical Tablet from Ebla, c.2350-2250 BCE
Legend of Sargon of Akkade, c. 2300 BCE
Man’s Oldest Prescription, 2200 BCE
Ancient Canaanite Cemetery, 2000-1750 BCE
Tale of Sinuhe, 1971-1928 BCE
Canaanite Fortifications of Ashkelon, c. 1950 BCE
Panels from the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I at Lisht, 1920 BCE
Baking and Brewing Model from a Tomb at Asyut, c. 1900 BCE
Mathematical Cuneiform Tablet, 19th century BCE
Astronomy Tablet, 19th-18th century BCE
Semitic Tribe Entering Egypt, c. 1890 BCE
Lipit-Ishtar Law Code, c. 1850 BCE
Oldest Arch, c. 1850 BCE
Mirror of Princess Sithathoriunet, 1850 BCE
The Execration Texts, from 1840 BCE
Egyptian Curse Figurine, c.1800 BCE
Weld-Blundell Prism, c. 1800 BCE
Dictionary Tablet, 18th century BCE
Atrahasis Epic: The Flood Story, 18th century BCE
Gilgamesh Epic: The Flood Story
The Story of Abraham, 18th century BCE
Hyksos Drinking Goblet, 18th century BCE
Carnarvon Tablet, 18th century BCE
Jacob Scarab Seals, 18th century BCE
Babylonian Tablet Plimpton 322, c. 1800 BCE
Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 17th century BCE
Mathematical Tablet, c. 1790 BCE
Mari, 1789-1759 BCE
Statue of Lamgi-Mari, 1789-1759 BCE
The Code of Hammurabi, c. 1760 BCE
Sumerian Flood Story, 1740 BCE
Square Root of Two Cuneiform, c. 1700 BCE
Canaanite God El, c. 1600 BCE
Silver Calf, c. 1600–1550 BCE
Babylonian Flood Story, 15th century BCE
Portraiture Statuettes of High Priest Amenhotep and Priestess Rannai, 15th century BCE
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, 1575 BCE
Statue of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, 1550–1525 BCE
Valley of the Kings, 1539-1075 BCE
Cuneiform Tablets from Hazor
Hieroglyphics Tablet from Hazor
Clay Model of a Sheep's Liver
Seven-spouted Vessel
Monkey Vessel
Figurine Mold
Seven Tablets of Creation
Polygon Tablet
Clay Multiplication Table
Astronomical Tablet
Admonitions of Ipuwer Papyrus
Anthropoid Coffins
Tell Harmal Mathematical Tablets
Sumerian Serpent
Nuzi Archives
Serabit el-Khadem
- Articles
- The Patriarchal Age: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, P. Kyle McCarter Jr., revised by Ronald S. Hendel, Ancient Israel, Biblical Archaeology Society, 1999.
- Circumcision, Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager, Life in Biblical Israel, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
- Egypt - 3100 BCE - 476 CE -- Timeline
- Gold from a Hyksos City, Ornit Ilan, Image and Artifact, The Jerusalem Museum, 2000.
- What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, BAR 4:04, Nov/Dec 1978.
- Did the Patriarchs Live at Givat Sharett? Dan Bahat, BAR 4:03, Sep/Oct 1978.
- Ebla Update, BAR 6:03, May/Jun 1980.
- The Last Legacy of Roland de Vaux, Nahum M. Sarna, BAR 6:04, Jul/Aug 1980.
- The Separate Traditions of Abraham and Jacob, Roland de Vaux, BAR 6:04, Jul/Aug 1980.
- Beer-sheba of the Patriarchs, Ze’ev Herzog, BAR 6:06, Nov/Dec 1980.
- Ebla and the Bible, Giovanni Pettinato, BAR 6:06, Nov/Dec 1980.
- Ancient Jerusalem’s Rural Food Basket, Gershon Edelstein and Shimon Gibson, BAR 8:04, Jul/Aug 1982.
- God Before the Hebrews, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, BAR 8:05, Sep/Oct 1982.
- Gudea of Lagash Ends Long Journey, Suzanne F. Singer, BAR 9:03, May/Jun 1983.
- The Mysterious MBI People, Rudolph Cohen, BAR 9:04, Jul/Aug 1983.
- Claude Frederic-Armand Schaeffer-Forrer (1898–1982): An Appreciation, James M. Robinson, BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983.
- The Tablets from Ugarit and Their Importance for Biblical Studies, Peter C. Craigie, BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983.
- The Last Days of Ugarit, Claude F. A. Schaeffer, BAR 9:05, Sep/Oct 1983.
- Ur and Jerusalem Not Mentioned in Ebla Tablets, Say Ebla Expedition Scholars, James D. Muhly, BAR 9:06, Nov/Dec 1983.
- Fifteen Years in Sinai, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, BAR 10:04, Jul/Aug 1984.
- Sumer: Introduction, BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984.
- Woolley’s Ur Revisited, Richard L. Zettler, BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984.
- The New Sumerian Dictionary, William McPherson, BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984.
- Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984.
- Sumerian “Firsts,” BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984.
- Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years, Nancy Miller, BAR 11:03, May/Jun 1985.
- From Ebla to Damascus: The Archaeology of Ancient Syria, Marie-Henriette Gates, BAR 12:03, May/Jun 1986.
- Books in Brief--Historical Essays; The Early Biblical Period, Philip J. King, BAR 12:06, Nov/Dec 1986.
- Jacob in History, Aharon Kempinski, BAR 14:01, Jan/Feb 1988.
- High Art from the Time of Abraham, Christos G. Doumas, BAR 17:01, Jan/Feb 1991.
- When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon, Lawrence E. Stager, BAR 17:02, Mar/Apr 1991.
- Mystery Circles, Yonathan Mizrachi, BAR 18:04, Jul/Aug 1992.
- BARlines: Bronze Age Source of Tin Found in Turkey? BAR 20:03, May/Jun 1994.
- BARlines: Wall Paintings Restored at Mareshah, BAR 20:03, May/Jun 1994.
- The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History? Kenneth A. Kitchen, BAR 21:02, Mar/Apr 1995.
- 10 Great Finds, Michael D. Coogan, BAR 21:03, May/Jun 1995.
- Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives, Ronald S. Hendel, BAR 21:04, Jul/Aug 1995.
- WorldWide: Ugarit (Ras Shamra, Syria), BAR 22:02, Mar/Apr 1996.
- Backward Glance: The Ur-Archaeologist, Edward M. Luby, BAR 23:02, Mar/Apr 1997.
- Lawrence of Arabia as Archaeologist, Stephen E. Tabachnick, BAR 23:05, Sep/Oct 1997.
- Expeditions: Hattusas, Turkey, BAR 24:02, Mar/Apr 1998.
- Strata: Canaanites in Suburbia, Bonnie Rochman, BAR 24:03, May/Jun 1998.
- Abraham’s Ur: Is the Pope Going to the Wrong Place? Hershel Shanks, BAR 26:01, Jan/Feb 2000.
- Abraham’s Ur: Did Woolley Excavate the Wrong Place? Molly Dewsnap Meinhardt, BAR 26:01, Jan/Feb 2000.
- Jerusalem as Eden, Lawrence E. Stager, BAR 26:03, May/Jun 2000.
- Was Noah’s Ark a Sewn Boat? Ralph K. Pedersen, BAR 31:03, May/Jun 2005.
- Discovering Hebron, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, BAR 31:05, Sep/Oct 2005.
- Maps
- The Fertile Crescent and Egypt, c. 2000 BCE
- Babylonia at the Time of Hammurabi, 1792-1750 BCE
- Websites
- Cave of the Treasure
- Gilgamesh
- The Code of Hammurabi
- The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L.W. King
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