Research led by Ben Gurion University archaeologist Dr. Eli Cohen-Sasson offers new insights on the ancient route through the Judean desert. What was the route of the ancient road connecting the ...

Edom and Idumea in the Persian period: an introduction to the volume / Benedikt Hensel -- The complexity of a site: "Edom" in the Persian period from the perspectives of historical research, Hebrew ...

This week, we read from Parshat Chukat, in which Moses is taught the laws of the red heifer, whose ashes purify a person who has been contaminated by contact with a dead body. Our Torah reading also ...

Edom, according to the Book of Genesis, was the state that existed "before kings ruled the children of Israel". In the face of scepticism from historians, scientists and archaeologists working in ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of an ancient kingdom previously thought to have been a mythical creation in the Bible. The Old Testament described Edom as a neighbouring enemy state of Judea, ...