January 2018
Vol. 6, No. 1
When Life Gives You Lemons: Tracking the Earliest Citrus in the Mediterranean
By Dafna Langgut
One of the most famous Levantine exports of the 20th century was the Jaffa orange, and we have long associated the region with citrus. Today citrus orchards are a major component of the Mediterranean landscape and among the region’s most important cultivated fruits.
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The Earliest Music in Ancient Egypt
By Heidi Köpp-Junk
Music is a human universal. Already by the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE a great number of Egyptian texts and images referred to music and musicians, and attest to a complex hierarchy of musicians. But the beginnings of Egyptian music are much earlier.
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A Proper Answer: Reflections on Archaeology, Archaeologists and Biblical Historiography
By Israel Finkelstein
ANEToday is pleased to present comments by noted archaeologist Israel Finkelstein, delivered at a joint session of ASOR and the Society of Biblical Literature titled “Rethinking Israel” (Boston, November 2017). The session honored Professor Finkelstein’s many contributions and presented him with a festschrift.
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Early Jewish Magic
By Yuval Hariri
Judaism has a rich tradition of magic going back over two thousand years. But what is magic really intended to do? Jewish magic is based on a belief in human power to affect reality and change it by means of words and rites. In that, it resembles the normative Jewish view, which places prayer rituals at the core of religious worship.
