Just an update.
Posted on 09/02/2009 9:11:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
JERUSALEM – Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.
The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient Canaanites from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's only water source and vulnerable to marauders.
The discovery marks the first time archaeologists have found such massive construction from before the time of Herod, the ruler behind numerous monumental projects in the city 2,000 years ago, and shows that Jerusalem of the Middle Bronze Age had a powerful population capable of complex building projects, said Ronny Reich, director of the excavation and an archaeology professor at the University of Haifa.
The wall dates to the 17th century B.C., when Jerusalem was a small, fortified enclave controlled by the Canaanites, one of the peoples the Bible says lived in the Holy Land before the Hebrew conquest. The kingdom thought to have been ruled from Jerusalem by the biblical King David is usually dated to at least seven centuries later.
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The Romans felt the same about the Canaanites Carthaginian cousins, who still retained the child sacrifice for religion.
Gosh. Wonder what God will do to a culture that has killed fifty million or more such innocents to serve its own selfish lusts...
And today's Palestinians claim to be descended from that culture.
“The canaanites were Allah’s buddies or some such nonsense.”
Given the barabaric nature of the canaanites, this is probably true.
Boiled babies in their mother’s milk, etc.
Probably true.
That said, He tends to tolerate a lot if there are just a couple of decent people. And America does have some decent people.
Ewww! I had no idea. I guess it was a fortuitous accident to joke about a connection between the two. While not the same, both “societies” are/were cruel, disgusting and vile.
Yeah, bit of trivia, but the Jewish prohibition against mixing dairy and meat comes from this practice.
The Torah specifically provides that a calf not be “boiled in its mother’s milk” because (IMHO) of the Cannanite practices. (Think about that next time you eat veal in cream sauce; I’m barely kosher, but that makes my skin crawl.)
It expanded to all meat and milk to avoid doing this by accident, but also because doing so, just in general, showed a disregard between life and death -— life giving milk being used as agent of death.
It’s a bit of a peak into the foulness that was the Cannanite culture.
People wondering why the early Hebrews were such hardcases forget what they were fighting.
Yes. Islaam is definitely an improvement on burning perfectly good children and leaving their bones in a pot. Why, think what excellent suicide bombers the little dears might have made, and how much they would have saved on pottery.
The ‘culture’ didn’t. Individuals did.
The babies of the Cannanites did not deserve death.
"I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson
Silly premise.
Why should the innocent be condemned because of the guilty simply due to being within the same political borders?
There would be nothing whatsoever ‘just’ about that!
Thanks.
G-d disagreed, apparently.
A caveat to my last post, certain Eqyptian children definately did not deserve death, but were killed anyway, as that was a necessary step in obtaining freedom.
(Hence a fast before Passover, in honor of the children who died for their parent’s actions.)
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