Torrejón y Velasco en el Archivo de La Plata : estudio y transcripción del villancico: “Ah del invencible muro”

Resumen: Se presenta aquí un panorama general de las obras conservadas en el Archivo de la Biblioteca Nacional de Bolivia con especial énfasis en aquellas pertenecientes a Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco. El estudio se centra luego en la transcripción y análisis del villancico Ah del invencible muro.

Recently discovered Iron Age lion figurines from Jerusalem

Abstract: More than 500 Iron Age figurines were discovered in the 2005–2010 Western Wall Plaza excavations in Jerusalem.1 The excavations revealed a large building, probably of the four-room type. Many figurines were discovered in this building, others in fills below and above it, dating in general to the eighth-sixth centuries BCE. Here we focus on two heads most likely depicting lions, one of them exceptional—holding another animal in its mouth. We discuss the identification of these figurines as lions, the lion motif in a variety of media in the Southern Levant, and finally recent theories concerning lions in the Hebrew Bible and their relation to Yahweh. We suggest that the two Western Wall Plaza figurines represent lions as wild animals, in similarity to other figurines of wild animals made on occasion by Judean coroplasts.