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Posted on 07/30/2010 11:33:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bar Ilan University archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a Philistine temple in the ancient city of Gath, home of the Biblical Goliath, buried in one of the largest tels (ancient ruin mounds) in Israel.
The temple and a number of ritual items dating back to the 10th century BCE were discovered at Tel Tsafit (Tell es-Safit/Gath) by Professor Aren Maeir of BIU's Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology and his international team. The tel is located about halfway between Ashkelon and Jerusalem, near Kiryat Gat along the southern coastal plain.
“Interestingly, the architectural design of this temple, with its two central pillars, is reminiscent of the architectural image that is described in the well-known Biblical story of Samson and the Philistines,” Maeir said. He added that the discovery could indicate that the story of Samson reflects a type of temple that was in use in Philistia at the time.
He also said that his team had found impressive evidence of an earthquake in the 8th century BCE, reminiscent of the earthquake mentioned in the Book of Amos 1:1. The team uncovered walls that were moved from their place and collapsed like a deck of cards as a result of the powerful earthquake – assessed at a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale.
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If I had my way
If I had my way in this wicked world
If I had my way
I would tear this old building down
— Rev Gary Davis
Neat. And right in the middle of the second picture, sitting in a concial depression, you can see the stone that David used to kill Goliath.
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How can this be? The youth earth creationists claim the world is only 5700 years old and they’re finding stuff from the 10th centrury BC? Oooops!
I was there in ‘06. Nice to see it continue to develop.
Gaza itself is a very old city. The book of Joshua mentions it in Chapter 15 and muscleman, Samson actually hooked up with a prostitute in that city and later escaped it by carrying the gates of Gaza on his shoulders bringing it on top of a hill.
Funny, how this find gives more credence to the Bible than evolutionist theories so maybe the creationists are correct about the origins of the Earth after all!!!
“The youth earth creationists claim the world is only 5700 years old and they’re finding stuff from the 10th centrury BC? Oooops!”
The 10th century BCE is only 3010 or so years ago.
(No, not necessarily a YEC, but you made a slight decimal slip.)
I fail to follow your logic.
You are correct - I admit my error. Thanks.
Not a surprise!
10 times 100 (Century) is a 1000 BC. Did you fail math or something?
Not that I am a young earther, but th 10th century BC was 3,000 years ago.
I think the young earthers get God’s covenent with the Israelites confused with the creation of earth. There is plenty of evidence of life and human life well, well, well beyond 6,000 years, though the Jewish story may well have begun around then.
Your admission of mistake is very impressive for here, and shows your intellectual honesty.
Not many on the Internet do that.
Bravo!
Any serious studier of the Hebrew calendar rapidly learns that dates prior to the Second Temple become exponentially more like suggestions than dates one can compare to some fixed epoch down the the milisecond like we do today.
Back then, calendars were for planting crops, honoring G-d, and jubeliee years. More than 7-8 years was ancient history.
I am not a “young earther”, but I do believe in creationism and think inter-species evolutionism is a fairy tale, which is why after all of these years, evolutionism is nothing more than a theory and can’t be proven (albeit it is a constantly changing theory).
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