One of *those* topics, this is actually the first one about this.
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Posted on 10/14/2014 10:58:37 AM PDT by dware
A massive cult complex, dating back about 3,300 years, has been discovered at the site of Tel Burna in Israel.
While archaeologists have not fully excavated the cult complex, they can tell it was quite large, as the courtyard alone was 52 by 52 feet. Inside the complex, researchers discovered three connected cups, fragments of facemasks, massive jars that are almost as big as a person and burnt animal bones that may indicate sacrificial rituals.
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Isn’t this about the time of Jeremiah, the weeping prophet?
Jeremiah was roughly 2700 years ago. This is about 600 years before that. IOW, before the time of the kings, and quite possibly before the Israelite conquest.
Actually, it seems that the prophet Amos lived during this period during the reign of King Jeroboam II.
Sounds like a meeting of Greenpeace.
The article says “3300 years ago.”
Amos lived around 750 BC, or about 2750 years ago, or about 550 years after this temple.
To put that into some perspective, 550 years ago from today was 1464. The Wars of the Roses were in full swing in England.
Skanderbeg is leading a crusade against the Turk.
Hmmm... missed it by that much.
Canaanite storm god would be Baal, yes?
Yes
No problem. History has a very odd way of getting foreshortened as it gets farther in the past. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is the way people talk about various events “in the time of ancient Rome” as contemporaneous when they are actually 400 or 600 years apart.
Our world has changed a great deal in 500 years, and so did that of the Romans. The excesses of Nero and Caligula had very little to do with the Fall of Rome.
“Skanderbeg.” Now there’s a name one doesn’t hear everyday. Wasn’t he a former king of Albania?
Not exactly. He was the son of an Albanian prince who was given as a hostage to the Ottomans. He was raised as a Muslim and became a leader in their army.
He later switched sides and repelled a couple dozen invasions of Albania.
He must not have been the favorite son if daddy gave him up to the Ottomans. I forget where I first heard or read his name. Thanks.
One of *those* topics, this is actually the first one about this.
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