Word: tor
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...yearn for - what might even be called the Holy Grail of biblical archaeology - is a royal archive from before the time of King David or King Solomon. No such archive has ever been located inside Israel, although surrounding countries have yielded many from the same era. Sighs Amnon Ben-Tor, a Hebrew University archaeologist: "It's like striking oil. Everywhere but here...
...archive must exist, though, and Yigael Yadin even thought he knew where it was: in the ancient city of Hazor, in northern Galilee. At his death, Yadin was planning a major dig there to find the clay tablets he was sure lay hidden beneath the surface. His protege, Ben-Tor, has inherited the project. To date, Ben-Tor has found only a few uninformative tablets. But Hazor is the largest biblical site in the country, and it will take years of digging to explore it fully...
...when Ben-Tor or his successors locate the archive, the effect on biblical scholarship would be be profound. Instead of relying on half-legible inscriptions and fragments of clay and stone, historians would suddenly have access to huge amounts of information, set down not to advance religious ideas but to record secular events. The historical accuracy of much of the Bible could be settled, one way or the other, almost at a stroke...
...well-attended rallies around the country, Keyes dissects the meaning of the Declaration of Independence and finds in it an antiabortion message. "We are endowed by our Cre-a-tor," he says, stringing out the syllables for effect, "not by evolution or by bureaucrats, with certain unalienable rights." Unalienable, he says with professorial precision, means "they cannot be taken from us." "Our freedom and our life come from God," he says--and legalized abortion rips away that life and freedom...
...Angeles at Tor...