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Sunday, May 08, 2005

LECTURE ON KETEF HINNOM:
Villanova professor to discuss archaeological work in Israel

FROM [TOLEDO] BLADE STAFF

Judith Hadley, a professor of biblical archaeology at Villanova University, will give a free public lecture about her recent excavations in Israel tomorrow in the Temple-Congregation Shomer Emunim in Sylvania.

Ms. Hadley says her work at the burial cave of Ketef Hinnom, which dates from the 8th to 6th century B.C., has yielded the earliest archaeological record of worship of the Jewish deity and use of the priestly benediction from the Scripture in Numbers 6:4-26. She will also discuss her work at Megiddo ...

If you're in Toledo, it sounds well worth hearing.

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