Posted on 10/24/2022 1:21:50 PM PDT by devane617
A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth's magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants. The new data verify the Biblical accounts of the Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Findings indicate, for example, that the army of Hazael, King of Aram-Damascus, was responsible for the destruction of several cities—Tel Rehov, Tel Zayit, and Horvat Tevet, in addition to Gath of the Philistines, whose destruction is noted in the Hebrew Bible. At the same time, the study refutes the prevailing theory that Hazael was the conqueror who destroyed Tel Beth-Shean.
Other geomagnetic findings reveal that the cities in the Negev were destroyed by the Edomites, who took advantage of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah by the Babylonians.
The groundbreaking interdisciplinary study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and is based on the doctoral thesis of Yoav Vaknin, supervised by Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef and Prof. Oded Lipschits of TAU's Institute of Archaeology and Prof. Ron Shaar from the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University.
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I don’t get it. They say they measure the magnetic declination of a pot or brick that is laying in the ground. The magnetic fingerprint of those objects was formed when they cooled. How do they know that it is in the same direction as to when those objects came to their final testing places?
No, they don't.
“I don’t get it”
You have to read the article ...
I believe I did and watched the YouTube video.
So, the raping and pillaging left decipherable marks which decipherers and verifiers were able to decipher and verify, thereby earning someone a PhD.
And, once again, the Bible’s historical claims were supported. Bible-believers are gratified but unsurprised, and Bible-skeptics are busy cooking up another challenge.
“I believe I did”
And you misrepresented the article in your post.
“They say they measure the magnetic declination of a pot or brick that is laying in the ground. “
That is not what the article says.
bkmk
Read Psalm 8:3 - “when I behold the heavens I see the work of your fingers.” Why is mankind so stubborn to look for reasons not to believe his revelations?
Stop that! You have to stop questioning things that are said and written if you want to get along! Critical thinking is not permitted.
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I keep telling people who come to me with some sensational crap that not everybody, including me, speaks the truth just because.
Now crap comes at such a furious pace it all gets labeled as fact. No wonder life is confusing since when things conflict they can’t all be true.
Watch the YouTube video.
Good article. This is similar to a steel ship picking up a permanent magnetism based on the magnetic direction it was built. Even in a blacksmith shop, the iron pieces will have a magnetic signature depending on which direction they were made.
When iron atoms are heated up in a furnace and become molten, they can align with the current magnetic field of the earth. When the liquid cools to a solid, the iron atoms remain aligned with the current magnetic field. But if you move them, then it is worthless.
“Watch the YouTube video.”
I did. It explains the dating technique same as the article.
“But if you move them, then it is worthless.”
They weren’t moved.
So they remained in the furnace?
“So they remained in the furnace?”
Sort of. The whole city was the furnace. It is in the article.
Assuming this is totally accurate, all it proves that the Bible correctly recorded historical events.
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