Pilgrimages and Expeditions to the Holy Land, Egypt and Rome: The Spanish Experience
Spanish travel to biblical places has been constant since the first centuries of Christianity. A particularly rich literature tells of 19th and 20th interest in pilgrimages and mis
Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel
The Bible regards Solomon as the greatest and wisest of kings. But which Solomon are we talking about, that of Samuel-Kings or Chronicles? And which is closer to ‘history’?
Salt in Mesopotamia: A Blessing and A Curse
Salt was common in Mesopotamia; Assyriologists tend to ignore it. A closer look shows Mesopotamian writers were concerned with salinization and that salt was an integral part of di
Making Bibles in Early America
“Making a bible” in early America involved both paper and ink and a universe of culturalpractices and assumptions by which early Americans related to each other and to the Bibl
Why Did Sennacherib Create Two Accounts of His Siege of Lachish?
Sennacherib’s reliefs from his palace at Nineveh famously show the destruction of the Judean city of Lachish. But why do the written accounts of the conquest differ from the reli