This evening, I gave a lecture on recent finds from the excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath, at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem to a fall hall of listeners. Among other topics, I showed pictures and discussed the stone altar found this summer. Nice crowd – nice lecture! :-)
While I was there, I had a chance to look at the very nice exhibit “Sound the Shofar” which is about the shofar that is currently being shown. The exhibit traces the history of the shofar, its significance from a religious and symbolic point of view, various archaeological examples of the shofar, up to the actual shofar that Rabbi Shlomo Goren used when he blew the shofar at the Western Wall after its capture in the Six Day War. Very interesting – well-worth a visit (and there is a very nice catalogue for the exhibit).
Aren
