[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I for one didn’t need the proof, but interesting.

[Seruzawa]

Modern scholars are pretty much wrong about a heck of a lot.

[Texas56]

Once again, God out maneuvers modern scientists who try to refute his Word.

[beethovenfan]

Don’t bet against the Bible.

[Telepathic Intruder]

More proof I didn’t need but thanks.

[Vendome]

Proof of God, our creator.

Merry Christmas.

[crazyhorse691]

So the Kings David and Solomon did not exist until they found the fragments. Definition of human arrogance.

[Bogie]

Modern scholars???

[ConservativeMind]

This is a very big deal. Wow.

[normbal]

I guess 1500 years of muslims destroying artifacts and other evidence of judaic history hasn’t been enough... let’s turn total control of the temple mount over to them like the UN and progressives are demanding so they can finish the job.

[Bigg Red]

fyi

[Wiz-Nerd]

Thank you, Vet, for another interesting post. You might know about this already. Did I Find King David’s Palace? Eilat Mazar • 09/07/2012

[rdl6989]

as scholars have tended to dismiss trends toward political complexity (e.g., state formation) occurring prior to the arrival of the Assyrians in the region in the later eighth century b.c.e."

You know what happens when we assume...

[thirst4truth]

Our family is each doing a Bible teaching for Christmas day. Mine is the Book of Ruth. I kind of knew this, but hadn’t realized how close to King David were Ruth and Boaz. They were Obed’s parents and Obed was King David’s grandfather!!

[wildbill]

With so much of the historical artifacts of this ancient land destroyed by centuries of warfare by competing kindoms and empires, the lack of concrete evidence of small desert “kingdoms” isn’t surprising.

After all, archeologists are still finding new evidence of massive building projects in Egypt, Anatolia, ancient Persia, etc. While the Bible is of considerable significance in a religious context, the stories of the Kings and heroes of the Jews has to be seen in the light that these folks weren’t really one of the super-powers of the region.

They thought they were important and wrote down thier history—but it was sorta like the modern state of Honduras making a claim to super power status. They were fresh off the Exodus and were shepherds and nomads first and later small farmers. They knew the drill, eg. you had to have kings and princes and some kind of government over warring and competing tribes because they could look around the region and see how it was done.

The miraculous part is that they kept the faith and kept their records over centuries in constant use. Contrast that with the Hittite scrolls, the cuneiform tablets of the Tigris Euphrates region or the lost language of the Egyptian hieroglyphics up to the fortuitous discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

[lonevoice]

ping

[NYer]

FYI, ping!