8-year-old Israeli boy stumbles across ancient relic

Israel 21c ^ | December 1, 2015

[beaversmom]

[csvset]

Not to belittle the boy's find, but it's always a fertility goddess , isn't it ?

[Pollster1]

FYI

Judges 6:25 - throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it

[Flag_This]

"...were common in the homes of residents of the kingdom of Judah ... until the destruction of the kingdom by the Babylonians..."

I guess He wasn't kidding about that whole idolatry thing.

[Balding_Eagle]

from the 10th to sixth centuries BCE.

I liked the BC (before Christ) much better than BCE, (before Christ's Era).

Much simpler.

Yeah, I know the truth of it.

[GreenHornet]

I liked the BC (before Christ) much better than BCE, (before Christ's Era).

I think the secular progressives started using "BCE" to replace "BC" a number of years ago, with the acronym meaning "Before Common Era."

[knarf]

I don’t much care WHAT they call it ... it will alweays be BC and AD to me

[Balding_Eagle]

I did say I knew.

I just refuse.

meaningless gesture I know, but I do have a bit of Liberal vanity in me, and I say it just to feel better about myself.

[GreenHornet]

I don’t much care WHAT they call it ... it will alweays be BC and AD to me

I feel the same way. It's just another example of the secular progressives doing whatever they can to erase all references to religion in this country.

[central_va]

I thought he fell over Dan Rather.

[ETL]

“BP” (Before Present) makes the most sense.

[TalBlack]

‘Before the present’ STILL avoids referring to SOMETHING. That something looms in refrence no matter how hard they try to marginalize it.

[T-Bird45]

Avoiding the referral to something would be the confirmation we’re living in “1984”-world.

[Fresh Wind]

I hope the kid isn’t too disappointed when he finds out that Indiana Jones isn’t anything like a REAL archeologist!

[Fresh Wind]

"BP" (Before Present) makes the most sense.

Except that every year it changes.

[ETL]

'Before the present' STILL avoids referring to SOMETHING.

Good point. There needs to be a system that holds up over the long run, particularly with archaeology, as opposed to paleontology, which covers millions of years.

[Chode]

when ever a RAT says that, i ask them common to WHAT??? Christ... and they shut up

[ETL]

Re: "BP" (Before Present)

Except that every year it changes.

You're right. I was, for some reason, thinking about paleontology, which deals in millions of years. But even there, way down the line, or even with ice-age period stuff now, a thousand years, sometimes less, matters.

[ExCTCitizen]

I’m not sure about you, but I guess there isn’t a fertility god, unless it is a gay god, but I doubt gays were very uncommon back then...