Bible Review, April 1992
Features
Ebla and the Bible
What’s left (if anything)?
I remember it well. It was early October 1975. We were sitting on top of the tell having lunch. One of our guests, Afif Bahnassi, the director of the Department of Antiquities of Syria, had come to visit the British Archaeological Expedition to Tell...Biblical Leprosy
Is it really?
“Unclean! Unclean!” That cry—the cry of the leper—struck terror into the hearts of passersby in Palestine at the turn of the Common Era. In medieval Europe that cry separated the leper from everything he or she loved and enjoyed, condemning the leper to a...