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    Benjamin Mazar (Hebrew: בנימין מזר; born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906 – September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the...
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    during the Iron Age period. Mazar is married with three children and resides in Jerusalem. He is the nephew of Benjamin Mazar, one of the first generation...
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    baritone singer Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Benjamin McKenzie (born...
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    anything like a wing such as a battlement or parapet. The archaeologist Benjamin Mazar thought it referred to the southeast corner of the Temple overlooking...
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    King David. Eilat Mazar was born on 10 September 1956. She was the granddaughter of pioneering Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar, who served as president...
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  • Mazar and Mažár are surnames. Notable people with the surnames include: Amihai Mazar (born 1942), Israeli archeologist Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), Israeli...
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    ruins date back to "the later Jewish times, about the Christian era." Benjamin Mazar, during his excavations of Sheikh Abreik, discovered coins that date...
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  • including Benjamin Mazar, William Albright, Yigael Yadin and Michael Avi-Yonah. The books' Editorial Manager was biblical historian Prof. Ory Mazar. "Views...
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    is an inscribed stone from the 1st century CE discovered in 1968 by Benjamin Mazar in his early excavations of the southern wall of the Temple Mount. The...
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    interim, classes were held in 40 different buildings around the city. Benjamin Mazar was President of the university from 1953 to 1961, Giulio Racah was...
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    Mazar (1942–present) Nephew of Benjamin Mazar, noted for his Modified Conventional Chronology, a counter to Finkelstein's Low Chronology Eilat Mazar (1956–2021)...
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    Remnants of the 1st-century Stairs of Ascent in front of the Double Gate, discovered by archaeologist Benjamin Mazar....
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    temples List of historical capitals of Egypt Biblical archaeologist Benjamin Mazar believed that the Year 400 Stela, found in Tanis and datable to the...
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    the antiquities market, and Professor Eleazer Sukenik and Professor Benjamin Mazar, archaeologists at Hebrew University, soon found themselves in possession...
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    was built (1537–41), reopened and rebuilt by archaeologists led by Benjamin Mazar and Meir Ben-Dov in 1968.) 705–715, 1968 [citation needed] Wall south...
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  • The Monastery of the Virgins is a structure uncovered during Benjamin Mazar's excavations south of Jerusalem's Temple Mount. The large number of Christian...
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    Remnants of the 1st century Stairs of Ascent, discovered by archaeologist Benjamin Mazar, to the entrance of the Temple Courtyard. Pilgrims coming to make sacrifices...
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  • Martin's first visit to Jerusalem in 1961 when he first met Benjamin Mazar and later his son Ory Mazar, who informed him of his belief that the Temples of Solomon...
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    Abreiḳ, and brought the necropolis to the attention of archaeologist Benjamin Mazar and his brother-in-law Yitzhak Ben-Zvi; Ben-Zvi proposed that this was...
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    (1818–1883), philosopher and sociologist Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), biologist Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem Joachim Mrugowsky...
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    2014.[permanent dead link], also in ISBN 978-1-57506-220-4, p. 61ff. Benjamin Mazar identifies it with Cana "without doubt": Maisler, B (April 1933). מסע...
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  • millennium BCE sources, mentioned among the cities in Bashan. This led Benjamin Mazar and Martin Noth to identify it with the region near "Taiyibeh", to the...
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    other gates, presumably, had been sealed earlier. Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar surmised that the only serviceable gate on the western façade of the...
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    right next to the southeast corner of Herod's Temple Mount. Benjamin Mazar and Eilat Mazar began excavating an area identified as Jerusalem's ophel, lying...
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    14: 4–7), but not in the list of sacrificial animals. According to Benjamin Mazar, it is possible that the fallow deer was used as a sacrificial animal...
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    Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass." MAARAV 15 (2008): 57–93. Benjamin Mazar, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the...
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    archaeological discoveries made at this location by his grandfather, Professor Benjamin Mazar, which included the 1st-century stairs of ascent, where Jesus and his...
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    unable to come-up with Jewish potsherds. In the 1940s, archaeologist Benjamin Mazar conducted a surface survey in the region, including Tell Butashi, without...
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    Reuveni. His sisters were the poet Shulamit Klogai and Dina, who married Benjamin Mazar. As a member of the B'ne Moshe and Hovevei Zion movements in Ukraine...
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    ruins of an older city were uncovered to the south of Ramla. Earlier, Benjamin Mazar had proposed that ancient Gath lay at the site of Ras Abu Hamid east...
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