A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh ... Pictures released by officials show ancient stairs leading down to what was once used as a ritual bath. The steps show "notable traces ...

Yuval Gadot of the Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures ... in the south and Temple Mount (the mountain on which the Jewish temple was) to its north. While current ...

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1[?]-8).” Pages 297-316 in Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: A Study of the Emotions Associated with Prayer in the Jewish and Related Literature of the Second Temple Period. Edited by Renate ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Jews are commanded to hear the Torah recited by the king at the Temple. What happens when neither of those exists? (JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children ...

Myths, of the Da Vinci Code variety, abound that vessels from the ancient ... and the Jewish people are projected onto the Arch, and new myths — like the one that claims the Temple menorah ...