August 1
30
BCE: Mark Antony died. Following the victory of Octavian and Antony
over those who had murdered Julius Caesar, Antony became ruler of the Eastern
half of the Roman Empire. Antony did
name Herod as ruler of Judaea.&n…
July 23
501: A violent
earthquake hit Eretz Yisrael during which the town of Akko was totally
destroyed.
636: Following
the Battle of Yarmuk Arabs took control of most of Eretz Yisrael from the
Byzantine Empire.
1253: The Jews
were expelled from V…
To call it a death would be melodramatic, but something certainly “ceased to be” this week. It started as a trickle, an article here or there, then a deluge of Christian media outlets began carrying the story that Chip and Joanna Gaines, long hai…
July
15
763 BCE:
Forty-one years before their conquest of Israel, the Assyrians observe and
record a solar eclipse which is the basis for much of the dating of activities
in the Fertile Crescent, including Eretz Israel, prior to the seventh century
BC…
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