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...Scrolls curator emeritus Broshi, "the city was deserted from the beginning of the 15th century until the 11th century B.C." So was Ai, say Broshi and others. And so, according to archaeological surveys, was most of the land surrounding the cities. Says Broshi: "The central hill regions of Judea and Samaria were practically uninhabited. The Israelites didn't have to kill and burn to settle...
...that the high priest Caiaphas, who according to the Gospels presided at the Sanhedrin's trial of Jesus, was a real person. So, indisputably, was Pilate. In 1961, diggers in Caesarea found the fragment of a plaque indicating that a building had been dedicated by PONTIUS PILATUS, PREFECT OF JUDEA...
...zealots. Slogans denouncing Rabin, the Labor Party government and the peace plan have disappeared from Israeli auto bumpers, windows and walls. Some of the most militant Zionist groups hastened to condemn Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, and anyone who applauded his bloody act. The Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza even passed a resolution pledging to "silence those voices...
...past century, the politically correct way to attach blame was to pin it on a vanished empire -- the Rome of the Caesars and its representative in Judea, Pontius Pilate. But a new, two-volume study by one of the Roman Catholic Church's most prominent experts on the Gospels dismisses that approach. "You can't just say there was no Jewish involvement in the death of Jesus," says Father Raymond E. Brown, author of The Death of the Messiah (Doubleday; 1,608 pages; $75), which re-examines this and dozens of other issues on the crucifixion. "Jesus...
...more conventional communities if they were amply compensated. That might lure the estimated one-third to one-half of the settlers who have moved into the territories for pleasant scenery and lower living costs. But it would do little to remove those who live in the land they call Judea and Samaria out of religious conviction -- the burning belief that it is not just the right but the duty of Jews to occupy the entire biblical Land of Israel -- and who openly declare that they will die rather than move...