{"id":42664,"date":"2018-10-23T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=42664"},"modified":"2022-05-18T06:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T03:36:27","slug":"standing-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/standing-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Covenantal Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[555],"acf":{"old_id":"42664","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"74","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42665\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-1200x751.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-671x420.jpg 671w, https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image.jpg 1253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Standing stones were erected throughout ancient Israel and the Levant for use in religious ceremonies or as markers of significant events and places. The ten standing stones pictured here were most recently examined during the joint HUC-JIR\/Harvard Semitic Museum excavations at Gezer. The stones date to the late Middle Bronze Age (1650\u20131550) and may have been used in a covenant ceremony like the one described in Exodus 24. The use of standing stones in kinship and covenant rituals are also known from texts at the sites of Mari and Emar (both located in modern day Syria).<\/p>\n<p>Illustration: <em>BAR <\/em>Jan\/Feb 2015, courtesy of George Blumenthal<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Covenantal Stones","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"From the collection of George Blumenthal","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":42665,"id":42665,"title":"exodus24_image","filename":"exodus24_image.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/standing-stones\/exodus24_image\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"exodus24_image","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":42664,"date":"2018-10-23 17:12:25","modified":"2018-10-23 17:12:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1253,"height":784,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-300x188.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":188,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-768x481.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":481,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-1024x641.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":641,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image.jpg","1536x1536-width":1253,"1536x1536-height":784,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image.jpg","2048x2048-width":1253,"2048x2048-height":784,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-1200x751.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":751,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/exodus24_image-671x420.jpg","home_baner-width":671,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":"Oriental Institute Museum"},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42668,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664\/revisions\/42668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}