And Down at Tel Shiloh

My veteran followers know my awe of the archaeological work that has been done at Tel Shiloh.

I have studied the Danish excavation report.

with Era Rappaport I went down to visit with Israel Finkelstein during his 1981-84 dig to see the sometimes daily progress then, followed the digs of the basilicas of Yitzchak Magen and on to Reut Ben-Arie who also worked on the City of David excavations (her Shiloh report is here)

Of course, while trying to locate the Tabernacle is a central aspect

Photo by Barry Kramer and graphics by Jerry Taylor

there is much much more about the Tel. Well the good news now is that Dr. Scott Stripling's ABR second season has begun. His introduction/overview to the Tel is a must read. The first season's reports are here. Here is his grid:

 

There I am at last year's visit.

I went down to the Tel get reacquainted with the work being done last Friday and Scott was as courteous as ever:

There were animal teeth:

and flat-bottomed pottery and shards

and walls and rooms and and coins and such:

See the pottery shards?

From what Scott explained to me, this is going to be a great season. The Danish and Finkelstein teams' discarded soil will be resifted, thoroughly.  Bedrock has been reached in more places 

and the Canaanite (or Emorite) Wall is becoming more exposed and more defined. Interesting possibilities of the wall's elements are becoming apparent.

You can listen to Eve Harow's interview with Scott

That yellow-marked area is a pit with some great finds.

Looking forward to more.

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P.S. Try this clip.

Peeving With Eve

Eve Harow of Voice of Israel's Rejuvenation program and I discussing current events, or what she calls "Eve's Peeves".

Program link.

Listen in.

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Meet Me in the Radio Studio

So, my stint behind the mike is over.

The archived material, where you listen in, is here.

Substituting for Eve Harow, Yisrael Medad brought on four guests to discuss issues that are in the forefront of Jewish political life in Israel and abroad. Yisrael, a blogger at Arutz 7 and a long-time Yesha activist who resides in Shiloh, spoke with Elizabeth Berney who is the Republican candidate running for election in 2010 in New York's 5th Congressional District, the seat held by 13-term incumbent Gary Ackerman. Liz, interviewed in her Great Neck home, highlighted some troublesome developments relating to Ackerman's positions on Israel as well as other issues important to the 600,000 voters of Norht-east Queens and North-west Nassau County.

Caroline Glick spoke about her new Hebrew-language web site, www.latma.co.il, which is taking on Israel's own media with an especially satirical, sardonic and critical perspective. Explaining the central role the media plays in framing the knowledge and information Israelis receive, as well as that which is denied them, in addition to the left-wing bias, Caroline expanded on the uniqueness of the site and, in a new development, the use of humor to "take down" the media with webcast clips.

Executive Vice-President of Bnai Brith Canada and publisher of The Jewish Tribune, Frank Dimant, speaking from Toronto, reviewed the major problems of harassment and actual physical threating behavior that Jewish students on Canadian campuses are facing during such events as "Israel Apartheid Week" and other instances. Frank and Yisrael spoke of Canada's Conservative government and its support for Israel versus the Jewish kowtowing to the new radical trend of anti-Zionism on campuses and the trade unions.

Yisrael's last guest was Eve Harow who spoke of her insights on the American scene, having just gotten back from a two-week personal trip.

And, since radio you can't "see", here are some pics:

Eve Harow is Blogging

At JudeanEve.