Subtitle: First Temple dig reinforces status of Jerusalem as the true Jewish capital.
Another brick in the wall: the site of the First Temple excavations
An etching of King Solomon by 19th-century engraver Gustave Doré
Posted on 07/04/2011 12:47:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Claiming one in the eye for the Palestinian trend of "Temple denial", Israeli archaeologists are preparing, for the first time, to open buildings from the First Temple era to the public.
In recent years Palestinians, including leaders of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, have claimed in growing numbers that there was never a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
The new finds mean that not only can Israel cite archaeological evidence of the Second Temple but that it can also boast a major a complex of excavations from the First Temple, built some five centuries earlier.
The new excavations, which will open to the public later this month, give visitors the chance to see, and walk inside, a construction that is thought to have been commissioned by the king who built the First Temple -- Solomon...
You could walk though the history of Israelite arrival in Jerusalem at City of David, and explore numerous Second Temple sites. But there has been hardly anything on display from the time of Solomon...
Reaching Ophel is exhilarating. Its finds bring to life the biblical accounts of Solomon's reign... an impressive four-roomed gatehouse, which was found complete with clay storage jars, one of them with a Hebrew inscription. Ms Mazar believes that this was a gatehouse mentioned in the biblical book of Nehemiah, which states that "the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower".
(Excerpt) Read more at thejc.com ...
Another brick in the wall: the site of the First Temple excavations
An etching of King Solomon by 19th-century engraver Gustave Doré
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Love it. Thank you for the post and the ping(s) (always)
My pleasure. Happy 4th!
And Happy 4th to you too SC!
The “Palestinians” [(c) 1964] are already claiming it is a temple from Atlantis, or proof of space alien landings in the past. No Jews here.
More archeology from Solomon’s time in Jerusalem.
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Very cool. I hope they have really good security (and I’m sure they do.)
Have the Muslims ever tried to explain why the other ‘people of the book’ as they are referred to in the Koran have hundreds of references to Jerusalime in that book (Torah) but the Muslim Koran doesn’t have one reference to Jerusalem?
Who’s on the Rock, first?
:’)
It’s who’s on it last that counts, I think. :’)
Howzit that an article repeatedly cites “The Bible”, uses BCE and CE vs. BC and AD?
Howzit that an article repeatedly cites “The Bible”, uses BCE and CE vs. BC and AD?
Because they are jerks.
I just read those as “Before Christian Era” and “Christian Era”, just to aggravate them back. (8^D)
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This thread is useful with pictures. ;-)
Thank you for the pix, Civ.
Thanks for the ping!
It’s a bit annoying that the Israelis have to prove anything to unreasonable barbarians who wish that the Jews were all at the bottom at the Mediterranean Sea.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
God will make of the remnant left from His judging the Arabs a great nation again.
But these jerks—their doom is sealed.
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