Baghdad -- Lent is "a period of intense prayer and fasting" to promote a better future for our country, and the Middle Eastern region, and to put an end to the exodus of Christians from Iraq.
I normally like to write the (hi)story of the ancient Persia in the context of the greater eastern backstory and its relevance to the current events, and the need to preserve and protect ancient Near Eastern history and heritage and promote some basic knowledge of it as a part of our common...
What once served as a national bank looked more like a tomb. And it was, for the enemy soldiers who had recently tried to blast their way into the vault. The reinforced confines and simple physics left little of them. A new team of unlikely allies pressed deep into the dark recesses.
I always opposed the publication of looted cuneiform tablets, until I had a sudden epiphany at the 2004 ASOR meeting in San Antonio. There, archaeologist John Russell, newly returned from Iraq, estimated that tablets were leaving Iraq at the rate of thousands per month.
'I have laid an anathema, by the word of God, on anyone who erases this note or effaces it, or who removes this book from the monastery for whatever reason. If anyone dares do so, let God's anathema, wrath and curse be upon him.
Leona Running, who was the first female professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, where she served for nearly six decades, and was an expert in biblical languages, died on January 22. She was 97.