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The Rise & Fall of Biblical Israel

Every image on the course page, with its source, license, and the reason it was chosen. The artwork is public-domain and freely-licensed material from Wikimedia Commons: paintings of the conquest, the judges, the kings, and the exile, the manuscripts that preserve these books, and the archaeology that tests them. Creative Commons works are attributed below. All images have been resized for the web.

Image Work & Attribution License Where it appears Why it’s included
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon joshua-sun.jpg Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon John Martin c. 1816 Source ↗ Public domain Hero background Martin’s apocalyptic conquest scene: the rise of Israel told as a miracle of war.
A Sefer Torah (Chester Beatty Library) torah-scroll.jpg A Sefer Torah (Chester Beatty Library) Unknown 18th century Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament · Bonuses backdrop A Torah scroll: the form in which Israel’s scriptures were copied and read.
The Leningrad Codex (folio 193a) masoretic-page.jpg The Leningrad Codex (folio 193a) Unknown (scribe Samuel ben Jacob) c. 1010 CE Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament · Lecture 08 medallion A page of the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete Hebrew Bible, with its Masoretic notes.
The Prophet Isaiah prophet.jpg The Prophet Isaiah Jan Mostaert c. 1500 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament · Lecture 04 medallion A Renaissance prophet at his book: the prophetic office that made Israel’s kings and then judged them.
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem fall-jerusalem.jpg The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem Francesco Hayez 1867 Source ↗ Public domain Origin section figure Hayez’s burning temple: the catastrophe these histories were written to explain.
The Lachish Relief (Assyrian siege of Lachish, British Museum) lachish-relief.jpg The Lachish Relief (Assyrian siege of Lachish, British Museum) Photo: Mike Peel Relief c. 700-692 BCE (photographed 2010) Source ↗ CC BY-SA 4.0 At-a-Glance backdrop · Scroll variation panel Sennacherib’s own carving of the siege of Lachish: the enemy’s account of the events Kings has to explain.
Ezra the Scribe (Codex Amiatinus, folio 5r) ezra-scribe.jpg Ezra the Scribe (Codex Amiatinus, folio 5r) Unknown (Northumbria) c. 700 CE Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 01 medallion Ezra at his cabinet of books: the scribal tradition that gathered and shaped the history.
Israelites Crossing the Jordan Carrying the Ark of the Covenant (Vatican Logge) jordan.jpg Israelites Crossing the Jordan Carrying the Ark of the Covenant (Vatican Logge) Raphael (workshop) c. 1518-1519 Source ↗ CC BY-SA 4.0 Lecture 02 medallion Israel entering Canaan behind the Ark: the conquest the book of Joshua celebrates.
Samson and Delilah samson.jpg Samson and Delilah Peter Paul Rubens c. 1609-1610 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 03 medallion Rubens’s Samson undone by Delilah: the flawed deliverers of the age of judges.
King David Playing the Harp king-david.jpg King David Playing the Harp Peter Paul Rubens c. 1616 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 05 medallion Rubens’s harp-playing David: the legendary king the course measures against history.
The Dedication of Solomon’s Temple solomon-temple.jpg The Dedication of Solomon’s Temple Marcello Bacciarelli c. 1788-1791 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 06 medallion The dedication of Solomon’s temple: the high point before the kingdom divides and declines.
The Flight of the Prisoners exile.jpg The Flight of the Prisoners James Tissot c. 1896-1902 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 07 medallion Tissot’s deportation: Judah marched into the Babylonian exile that ends the story.
Beim Rabi (At the Rabbi’s) torah-study.jpg Beim Rabi (At the Rabbi’s) Carl Schleicher by 1903 Source ↗ Public domain Stats backdrop Scholars bent over the text: the long tradition of arguing about what these books mean.
The Leningrad Codex (folio 490a) leningrad-codex.jpg The Leningrad Codex (folio 490a) Unknown (scribe Samuel ben Jacob) c. 1010 CE Source ↗ Public domain “Prepare to Rethink” backdrop Another leaf of the Leningrad Codex, the manuscript behind most modern Hebrew Bibles.
Judean Desert landscape judean-hills.jpg Judean Desert landscape Photo: The Turtle Ninja Photographed 2013 Source ↗ CC BY-SA 3.0 Instructor backdrop The Judean wilderness: the land these books fight over, win, and lose.
The Western Wall, Jerusalem western-wall.jpg The Western Wall, Jerusalem Photo: Mohammad Shad Siddiqui Photographed 2018 Source ↗ CC BY-SA 4.0 FAQ backdrop The last standing wall of the temple mount: what remained after the fall.

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