BHR-81
Brit-Am Historical Reports
12 December 2011 16 Kislev 5772
Contents:
1. Interesting Article:
WHAT DID ROME CALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- & WHERE WERE ITS BORDERS?
by Elliott A Green
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.33
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.34
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1. Interesting Article:
WHAT DID ROME CALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- & WHERE WERE ITS BORDERS?
by Elliott A Green
http://www.esek.com/jerusalem/iudaea.html
Extract:
Judea (Iudaea) was the Roman name for the Land of Israel during the heyday of the Roman Empire. This meant not only the area called Judea in Israel today; it included the whole area ruled and/or chiefly inhabited by Jews. We can see this usage in various writers in Latin and Greek of that period. Consider Pliny, Suetonius, and Tacitus in Latin, and Plutarch as well as the geographers Strabo and Ptolemy in Greek. Judea stretched along both sides of the Jordan and included, besides Judea proper, most of the coastal plain, Samaria, most of the Galilee, the Golan Heights of today and considerable land to the east of there (areas called in Latin Gaulanitis [=Golan], Batanaea [=Bashan], Auranitis [=Hawran], and Trachonitis). The Romans called this land as a whole Iudaea (from the Greek Ioudaia). The land was mainly inhabited by Jews and was ruled by Jews. Therefore, Lord Robert Cecil, acting British foreign secretary, was right to use the name Judea for the whole land in his famous remark: "Our wish is that Arabian countries shall be for the Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians, and Judea for the Jews" (December 2, 1917).
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.33
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explorator 14.33 December 4, 2011
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Second thoughts on tearing down the Mugrabi Bridge:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-delays-demolition-of-jerusalem-bridge-over-egypt-jordan-warning-1.398111
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-delays-demolition-of-jerusalem-bridge-over-arab-spring-warnings-1.398081
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150152
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=247182
More on Herod starting, but not completing the Western Wall:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52168
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/excavations-reveal-king-herod-didn-t-complete-construction-of-jerusalem-s-western-wall-1.397283
More on evidence for the Essenes' writing of the DSS:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/overlooked-relics-may-help-unearth-dead-sea-scrolls-authors-1.398126
Reviewish/Interviewish of Jay Rubenstein, *Armies of Heaven*:
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/the-apocalyptic-religious-vision-that-drove-the-first-crusade-1.398660
Review of Alic Hoffman, *The Dovekeepers*:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-dovekeepers-by-alice-hoffman/article2250248/
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Anglo Saxon structure in Yorkshire Dales National Park:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-16013307
Evidence of human sacrifice from Iceland:
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Archeological_Discovery_Indicates_Human_Sacrifice_0_384946.news.aspx
Feature on Khazaria:
http://www.historytoday.com/nicolas-soteri/khazaria-forgotten-jewish-empire
More on recent finds at Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/30/strange-pits-at-stonehenge-reveals-new-clues-to-ancient-worship/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/stonehenge_discoveries/
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting implications of DNA studies and all that:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/11/when-trees-turn-into-brambles/
Not sure where to put this one ... a new study of the TransAtlantic slave
trade is about to commence:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-trans-atlantic-slave.html
Some criticism of the KJV of the Bible on its 400th anniversary:
http://www.forward.com/articles/146729/?p=all
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NUMISMATICA
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A horde of silver Viking coins from Finland:
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/12/rare_viking_age_silver_horde_found_3078014.html
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.34
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@GMAIL.COM>
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AFRICA
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Review of Tim Jeal, *Explorers of the Nile*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/explorers-of-the-nile-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-a-great-victorian-adventure-by-tim-jeal-book-review.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some very strange V-shaped markings found in a floor in a dig in
the City of David:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/mysterious-jerusalem-carvings-leaves-israeli-archaeologists-baffled-1.400113
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52309
http://news.yahoo.com/experts-stumped-ancient-jerusalem-markings-071348189.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-experts-stumped-ancient-jerusalem.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/archaeologists-stumped-by-ancient-markings-found-under-jerusalem/2011/12/07/gIQAx6rhbO_story.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150492
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5ywdGmDenlbQX3E9j-ACx_pXRjg?docId=ff39a6554e5d410380422bea95d20310
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/mayans-never-predicted-world-to-end_n_1126033.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=248778
http://gizmodo.com/5865946/experts-are-baffled-by-these-mysterious-ancient-markings-found-in-jerusalem
... and of course, a political spin has been put on the Herod's Wall/coins
story from the past couple
of weeks:
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7n%2bSKYIhG2BLiTcsIXuYMPI15SrgBjoGh%2bBxhuXJZ0EGZilsj4BEXoA1Wfzu2GS%2b5Qz3bqtffq7qjLJJbSsWdUZU6HoPXcZ5wDJ%2f6r9AJybI%3d
A survey in Jordan Valley suggests we'll be hearing more from that area:
http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=51743
Feature on the Therapeutae:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=248681
Feature on ten of the Middle East's greatest ancient wonders:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/07/world/meast/middle-east-ancient-wonders/
Another Muslim burial site dispute in Jerusalem:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150533
This week's Mughrabi Bridge stuff:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4158939,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=248638
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150529
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/jerusalem-municipality-orders-closure-of-bridge-leading-to-temple-mount-1.400337
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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US News slams an oft-made claim about Classicists:
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/articles/2011/12/07/med-schools-disavow-classics-programs-claim-as-road-to-mds
The Guardian tells us what Classics is all about:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/may/01/universityguide.classicseducation
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age boats from a Whittlesey quarry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-16113008
http://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/gallery_extraordinary_bronze_age_artefacts_discovered_at_hanson_quarry_in_whittlesey_1_1150410
http://www.heidelbergcement.com/uk/en/hanson/uk_news/excavations_reveal_a_wealth_of_archaeology.htm
A Bronze Age hoard from near Maidstone (Kent):
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/december/10/bronze_age_hoard_unearthed.aspx
A burial believed to be a Swedish king might not be:
http://www.thelocal.se/37846/20111209/#
Earliest surviving example of a timberframe house in Ireland:
http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/07/oldest-surviving-timber-framed-house-discovered-in-ireland/
A Stonehenge light show photo:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8946021/Photographer-Marc-Bower-Briggs-paints-Stonehenge-with-light.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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DNA suggests a population decline among North American natives after the
arrival of Europeans:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-dna-evidence-proof-north-american.html
Review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., *Life Upon These Shores*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/life-upon-these-shores-looking-at-african-american-history-1513-2008-by-henry-louis-gates-jr-book-review.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Of course, the most important story of the week is about Santa's DNA:
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/historic-sites/secret_santa_tracing_a_genetic_link_to_lapland_is_one_of_the_many_gifts_in_the_search_for_ancestors_1_2001262
Interesting item on the history of board games:
http://news.discovery.com/history/board-games-history-romans-egypt-111206.html
Some 'mistakes' in the Bible:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-joel-hoffman/five-mistakes-bible-translation_b_1129620.html
Celebrating the discovery of iodine:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-elemental-paper-celebrates-discovery-iodine.html
The National Library of Israel has put a pile of its collection online:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-national-library-puts-collection-online-1.399377?localLinksEnabled=false
Interesting Dead Sea research:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15938294
National Geographic is highlighting ten of its most noteworthy grants:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ten-grants-that-illuminated-the-world-135245818.html
Mental illness and some old preserved brains:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-century-old-brains-future-treatment-mentally.html
On the origins of L'chaim:
http://forward.com/articles/147494/
Review of Niall Ferguson, *Civilization*:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/04/RVOB1LRFRQ.DTL
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