Palestine

March 2024

March 29, 2024
  As has been our tradition at the Interpreter Foundation for most of our existence,...

November 2023

November 09, 2023
    "Enthroning the Daughter of Zion: The Coronation Motif of Isaiah 60-62," in The...

March 2023

March 22, 2023
    An article of mine appeared in Meridian Magazine a few hours ago:  "Understanding...

July 2022

July 29, 2022
    We're just back from attending a performance, with friends, of Singing in the...
July 05, 2021
    ***   This "new" reprint article by David M. Calabro appeared just a...

February 2021

February 06, 2021
    But, first:   Book of Moses Essays #41: Moses 1 in Its Ancient...

January 2021

January 30, 2021
    First, though:  The executive board of the Interpreter Foundation met this morning, from...
January 16, 2021
    But the return of the Jews to Palestine is an astonishing thing, something...
January 09, 2021
    Between the previous installment (Revision 8.10) and this one, considerable material is required...
January 02, 2021
    For some time thereafter, no matter how careful we were, some new and...

December 2020

December 19, 2020
    Don't miss this important (and relevant) monument from the history of Israeli popular...
December 06, 2020
    President Booth's sudden death did not end missionary work in the Near East....

November 2020

November 15, 2020
    The earliest Latter-day Saint missionaries to the Near East dreamed of a Church...
November 07, 2020
    This was, however, not the last time that apostles of the Lord would...
November 01, 2020
    I continue my account of a party sent in 1872 by President Brigham...

October 2020

October 24, 2020
    Note:  For at least a while, based upon discussion with folks at Patheos,...
October 23, 2020
    There were serious clashes between Arabs and Jewish settlers throughout the 1920s and...
October 22, 2020
    Despite numerous dissenting voices, the political Zionist move­ment began to gain momentum during...
October 21, 2020
    In 1882, young Jews calling themselves "Lovers of Zion" began actively to promote...
October 20, 2020
    Meanwhile, as Arabs and Muslims faltered and desperately sought a reason why, a...

September 2020

September 08, 2020
    This item is newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  ...

August 2020

August 17, 2020
    Abu Bakr was the first man to bear the title of caliph, to...

July 2020

July 17, 2020
    Some Jews were martyred, some hid in caves and deserts in order to...
July 16, 2020
    The Babylonian Talmud became, by a considerable distance, the more important of the...
July 13, 2020
    Furthermore, the ruling classes of Jewry, including the chief families of hereditary priests,...
July 10, 2020
    The last Jewish stronghold was the spectacular mountain for­tress-palace of Masada, 1300 feet...
July 09, 2020
    The death of Herod the Great marked the end of the last period...
July 08, 2020
    In 63 B.C., Judea became a client-state of the new superpower, Rome. Thus,...
July 07, 2020
    In 175 B.C., aggressive Jewish reformers found an enthusiastic but dangerous ally in...
July 05, 2020
    For all the talk of a land "flowing with milk and honey," Pales­tine...
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