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Archeologist finds 3,000-year old Hebrew text
CNN ^ | October 30, 2008

Posted on 10/30/2008 6:37:54 PM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 10/30/2008 6:37:55 PM PDT by george76
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To: forkinsocket; SunkenCiv; M. Espinola; rmlew; Fred Nerks; SJackson; LucyT; Salvation

the Elah Fortress in Khirbet Qeiyafa...


2 posted on 10/30/2008 6:39:47 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Yeah ... five lines of text in which a mom asks her son why he never visits anymore .... and why he likes the red tie better than the yellow one ....


3 posted on 10/30/2008 6:40:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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Wow.. any photos?


4 posted on 10/30/2008 6:40:44 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: george76
Archeologist finds 3,000-year old Hebrew text

Say what you will, but those old Hebrews sure could write.

5 posted on 10/30/2008 6:45:59 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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6 posted on 10/30/2008 6:48:44 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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“...and contains the roots of the words “judge,”...”

We’ve discovered the root of “So sue me”...


7 posted on 10/30/2008 6:49:24 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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Aw sheesh... assemply instructions were on the inside....


8 posted on 10/30/2008 6:50:39 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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Anything on it about Creation, only about 3,450 years earlier?


9 posted on 10/30/2008 6:51:28 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Everytime they open their mouth they shoot themselves in the foot.)
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[contains the roots of the words “judge,” “slave,” and “king,” ]

When I read that I immediately thought of our current situation. Hope it wasn't a prediction of judges making us slaves of King Obama, lol.

10 posted on 10/30/2008 6:58:19 PM PDT by potlatch
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I wonder if the word for judge is related to the judges who held executive power in Israel prior to David’s predecessor Saul, or to a judicial offficer.


11 posted on 10/30/2008 6:58:29 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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Once again, the IQ of the media drops about 30 points when tasked to write on anything pertaining to religion.

To link this pottery to the reign of King David is pure speculation, since no pottery or other cultural strata linked to any Hebrew king prior to Omri has been established. The whole issue of Bible chronology is probably the most hotly debated question in archaeology. All one can reliably say is that the pottery seems to date to c. 1000 BC, which is around the time of the currently dominant chronology extrapolated from Biblical records puts the reign of kings Saul, David and Solomon.

But it got people to click on the link, so, mission accomplished.


12 posted on 10/30/2008 7:00:46 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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More here with picture of the location...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/middleeast/30david.html?em


13 posted on 10/30/2008 7:01:42 PM PDT by ConfidentConservative (I think, therefore I am conservative.)
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After 3,000 years and the most advanced society in history - I think we should be able to read the damn things. Is there anything in that part of the world ever been easy?


14 posted on 10/30/2008 7:04:33 PM PDT by edcoil
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To: george76

Thanks, George. Interesting.

Perhaps causing thread drift, but, will it take 3,000 years to find a certain birth certificate?


15 posted on 10/30/2008 7:05:06 PM PDT by LucyT (While McCain was being tortured, 0bama was snorting coke & hanging out with communist.)
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To: Philo-Junius

The site is not completely unearthed, and it has been established to BE at the time of David.
Check my previous post for more info.


16 posted on 10/30/2008 7:05:32 PM PDT by ConfidentConservative (I think, therefore I am conservative.)
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To: Revolting cat!

I am curious where this notion of a 6 thousand year old Earth comes from or is derived from. Can you explain?


17 posted on 10/30/2008 7:05:40 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: george76

The translated text is:

One Pastrami on Pumpernickel, hold the Mustard.


18 posted on 10/30/2008 7:06:23 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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From that site...

“What he has found so far has impressed many. Two burned olive pits found at the site have been tested for carbon-14 at Oxford University and were found to date from between 1050 and 970 B.C., exactly when most chronologies place David as king. Two more pits are still to be tested.”


19 posted on 10/30/2008 7:08:31 PM PDT by ConfidentConservative (I think, therefore I am conservative.)
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The archaeological site of Khirbet Qeiyafa is located on the hills that border the Elah Valley on the north. This is a key strategic location in the biblical kingdom of Judah, in the main road from Philistia and the Coastal Plain to Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron in the hill country. In this area one of the world’s most famous battles took place, the battle between David and Goliath.

Khirbet Qeiyafa is a forgotten Biblical site. This is most surprising in view of its massive fortifications of megalithic stones which still stand to a height of 2-3 m, and its strategic geopolitical location.

http://qeiyafa.huji.ac.il/


20 posted on 10/30/2008 7:09:37 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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