It was either post some pics, or this:
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 ...
I absolutely, positively need to tour the Holy Land.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“Howzit that an article repeatedly cites “The Bible”, uses BCE and CE vs. BC and AD? Because they are jerks.”
Yeah, Joooos are evil jerks for refusing to eat pork and worship idols, too.
They need to pray to Mary and the rest, too.
The City of David is an incredible site. The Israelis did a wonderful job opening it up to tourism in the heart of Shiloa/Silwan.
I look forward to visiting the First Temple dig.
As far as Pali/Muslim claims, there is no reasoning with crazed, irrational conspiracy theorists who believe the Mossad is employing sharks to attack them and causing their sexual organs to disappear.
http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Muslim_Conspiracy_Theories
There is a reason Muslim countries are so poor and intellectually bereft.
Palestinians, to deny Solomon’s Temple, must be ignorant of their own sacred texts.
http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/28575/allah-is-a-zionist/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=429259
Who gives a fig to refute these ignorant troglodytes’ bald assertions.
But I want to see what the First Temple era looked like.
Probably because the source is Jewish, and “The Bible” was written by Hebrews.
Glad to know flaglday47 considers the original People of the Book to be jerks.
Thanks dervish. Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a little jealous. :’)
If I get fit and healthy, so that I can shovel stuff all day in the heat, I’d like to do one of those archaeological tourism gigs, where one pays for the privilege of backbreaking labor for some archaeologist, on the off chance that one will be on hand to make a discovery.
Thanks Jewbacca.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
That would be fun. Maybe when I retire, that is if I retire. :-))
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