In describing the experience of British Empire soldiers in the First World War, most scholars have focused only on the Western Front, ignoring the most important secondary theaters of Britain's war: the Sinai and Palestine. In these campaigns against the Ottoman Empire, there ca…
A cursory glance at Hebrews' critique of Israel's fear at Sinai in Heb 12:18-29 suggests that the author has misunderstood or manipulated his sources. In the Pentateuch, the appointment of Moses as Israel's mediator following their unwillingness to stand too close to YHWH receiv…
Many fundamental concepts of rifting have been influenced by observation made in the Gulf of Suez as a result of detailed structural and sedimentological studies. Although the three-dimensional structural geometry of the rift is well understood, the timing of faulting, the natur…
How can readers identify a text as being "Jewish" if there is no Jewish language? How can they explain the term "Jewish literature" if there is no Jewish nation and if an author can declare himself Jewish while denying any relationship to Judaism? This study seeks to clarify a J…
Of the three main festivals in the Hebrew Bible, only the Festival of Weeks, or Pentecost, is not explicitly associated with an historical event. However, by the rabbinic period, the rabbis commonly associate the Festival of Weeks with the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai. This st…
The Yom Kippur War 1973
by Dunstan, Simon, Lyles, Kevin
fromOsprey military campaign series
The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west. Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make their home in arid m…
The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west. Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make their home in arid m…
The Yom Kippur War 1973
by Dunstan, Simon, Lyles, Kevin
fromOsprey military campaign series
The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the las…
