"This is an earthquake in biblical study": 3,200-year-old "curse" from "Cursed Mountain Ebal" [Deut.27] was exposed ['..death blow to all Biblical deniers']

YNet ^ | Mar 24, 2022 | Yitzhak Tessler , Elisha Ben Kimon

[Conservat1]

A rare archeological find from Mount Ebal: A small, folded 3,200-year-old lead plate sheds new light on biblical study - and was unveiled today (Thursday). Inside it - an ancient curse in ancient Hebrew script ("Proto-Canaanite"), with the God's explicit name [of the Divine]. Prof. Gershon Galil, from the University of Haifa, calls the discovery an "earthquake in biblical studies." He said, "The new find unearthed today is the earliest Hebrew inscription found so far."

An inscription was found in Hebrew from the 13th century BC Prof. Galil: "The new finding is a death blow to all biblical deniers"

An inscription in ancient Hebrew, with the explicit name, was discovered on Mount Ebal in Samaria, and dates to the 13th century BC. Prof. Gershon Galil from the University of Haifa, says that this is the oldest Hebrew inscription found so far - evidence of the use of the Hebrew language in biblical times

A rare archeological find from Mount Ebal: A small, folded 3,200-year-old lead plate sheds new light on biblical study - and was unveiled today (Thursday). Inside it - an ancient curse in ancient Hebrew script ("Proto-Canaanite"), with the name of the explicit name. Prof. Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa calls the discovery an "earthquake in biblical studies." He said, "The new find unearthed today is the earliest Hebrew inscription found so far."

Prof. Galil says that to this day, with the discovery of the inscription from the 13th century BC, the oldest inscription in Hebrew has been dated to the tenth century BC. "It was an inscription found in the ruins of Kaifa, near the Ella Valley, by Prof. Yossi Garfinkel from the Hebrew University, and I was the one who deciphered it," he says.

"The new finding is a death blow to all biblical deniers," Prof. Galil emphasizes. "Many biblical critics have argued that in the 13th century BCE, the people of Israel could not read and write, and therefore could not write the Bible. Therefore, biblical deniers have claimed that the Bible was written very late, in the Persian or Hellenistic period.

The small lead tablet, from the 13th century BC, was discovered on Mount Ebal in Samaria, known as the biblical "Curse Mountain" - and inside it was cursed:

Cursed, damn, [Arur ארור], Cursed before the Lord God... Cursed before Yahweh...

[Conservat1]

Dear Red Badger. You’re right. If you need translation in the future, please message me.

[Paal Gulli]

"...An inscription was found in Hebrew from the 13th century BC Prof. Galil: "The new finding is a death blow to all biblical deniers..."

You have completely stripped that quote of all context and in the doing made it appear to have a vastly broader implication than the author intended.

[Conservat1]

See the title. I added this quote: “death blow to all biblical deniers...”

[Ancesthntr]

“I doubt I know 3000 words................”

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I also doubt that you know 3,000 words. You know a lot more than that, and so does pretty much everyone else.

[Conservat1]

I see.

[Ancesthntr]

“Why did someone feel the need to put “BCE” in the sixth paragraph?”

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Perhaps because this article was written in an Israeli publication. Jews do not believe that Jesus was, is or ever will be “the Christ” - i.e. THE messiah - the final annointed servant of G-d who will bring about world peace (**because** all people on Earth have knowledged that the G-d of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob is the one and only G-d), bring all Jews to Israel, rebuild the Temple, etc. Therefore, there is no reason whatsoever that Jews serious about their faith would want to use “BC” (before Christ); however, since most of the world runs Gregorian calendar, they have adjusted to that convention by using “BCE” (before the common era) as a substitute that doesn’t force them to implicitly admit that Jesus (if he even existed) was “the Christ” every time that they speak or write about the time period prior to 2022 years ago.

[Red Badger]

Well, if you count cuss words.................

[Ancesthntr]

“There is technology out there now that can read entire scrolls with out rolling them out and damaging them. It’s amazing what can be done now.”

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I agree with you that it is an amazing technology - straight out of SF, if you ask me.

However, I doubt that the x-rays can penetrate lead. Perhaps other types of rays can, but I honestly don’t know, nor do I know which type of rays are used in this technology. Regardless, someone expert in the field decided to open the lead, rather than have a machine read it while it was still folded.

[Ezekiel]

A rare archeological find from Mount Ebal: A small, folded 3,200-year-old lead plate sheds new light on biblical study - and was unveiled today (Thursday).

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Cursed, damn, [Arur ארור], Cursed before the Lord God... Cursed before Yahweh...

Waited all this time to break the curse? Why didn't they just take out the excess letter? There's already one in there. Give it to me..

ארור ---> אור

Ohr, light. There you go. Easy-peasy.

Let there be light.

Can-Do!

Thanks for the ping, RB. If I've got time I'll post about the lead. Probably nothing more complicated than a bar napkin. ;)

[Conservat1]

How do you know it's a legal document of Jews? "Because of the reference to the God of Israel. To a Canaanite man the name 'Yahweh' means nothing, because he does not know the God of Israel at all." ___ True.

[Red Badger]

Could this be a hoax?

Did they even have ‘lead’ as a material back 3200 years ago?

I know the Romans had it.

I don’t know if the Egyptians had it or not............

[Conservat1]

Calculating 3,200 years ago on the Hebrew calendar since Creation.

If today is, 5,782 [ה’תשפ”ב], this means, it was around, 2,580... [ב’תק”פ]

[Ancesthntr]

Kids know about 3,000. Adults are thought to know about 30,000 (including curse words): https://www.twinword.com/blog/how-many-words-does-the-average-person-know/

However, I don’t think that this includes words that we create when we insert curse words in between the syllables of other words as, for example, when we smash a little toe against the corner of a piece of oak furniture (G..-f’ing-dammit!!!). :>)

[Conservat1]

Did they even have ‘lead’ as a material back 3200 years ago?

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Lead is actually mentioned in the Bible . Of course. NUNBERS 31.22

https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.31.22 Gold and silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead—"

[Conservat1]

The verse I quoted from Nunbers 31.22 referred to utensils nde out of lead, what Moses spoke [to the Israelites/Hebrews, called as Jews since Book of Esther].

[jjotto]

Hebrew uses various prefixes and suffixes with root words (usually of 3 letters), and vowels are imputed rather than written and affect meaning. So a few thousand root words actually function as many more words in other languages.

[Red Badger]

Thanks................

[Red Badger]

Lead is poisonous...................

[beethovenfan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwJ_Iyvilk

[Conservat1]

“Lead is poisonous...................

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Today’s weak immune system vs ancient poweful world...