Posted on 07/11/2016 1:33:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Mosaics depicting prominent Bible scenes were uncovered during annual excavations of an ancient synagogue in Israel's Lower Galilee.
During the excavation in June, archaeologists found two new panels of a mosaic floor in a Late Roman (fifth-century) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village. One panel showed Noah's ark with pairs of animals, such as lions, leopards and bears. The other panel depicted soldiers being swallowed by large fish, surrounded by overturned chariots in the parting of the Red Sea.
Such images are extremely rare for the time period, according to excavation director Jodi Magness, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose work was funded by the National Geographic Society. [Photos: Unusual Mosaics Decorated Ancient Synagogue in Israel]
"I know of only two other scenes of the parting of the Red Sea in ancient synagogues," Magness told National Geographic.
"One is in the wall paintings at Dura Europos [in Syria], which is a complete scene but different from ours — no fish devouring the Egyptian soldiers," Magness said. "The other is at Wadi Hamam [in Israel], but that's very fragmentary and poorly preserved."
The ark scenes are also uncommon; Magness said she knows of only two other mosaics showing such depictions.
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Okay. I’m sure anything I could provde wouldn’t be enough anway.
Tread lightly, HiTech RedNeck is a real tar baby when someone disagrees with him.
He’ll drive you crazy.
I have read extensively - This theory is something you hold dear but it is your own. I have never read any such claim that the Greek key or any architectural motif came from Indians to the Greeks. In fact it is impossible because this was an era before pictures - the Greek style was imported into India directly by stonemasons who were there due to Alexander. And of course the Greek key existed before that.
Who?
Era before pictures, that’s interesting.
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your foot don’t fit no limb...
How will a architectural motif that needs to be witnessed and worked on pass along? Was there a “How to sculpt” in BC?
You think there was no writing and drawing in BC?
ROTFLOL
So how did these "books" from India get to Greece to inspire the meander key design? Your theory - defend it.
Well your ‘point’ shows, directly, that you have no idea what the prohibition on ‘graven images’ is about. They are images that are made by hand to be worshipped. Think of the golden calf. None of those examples you give were for the purpose of worshipping that item.
Try again.
The comment was made as a blanket statement of a general prohibition about images. Not a prohibition about the worship of images. The Jews did culturally disdain images because they **could** be worshipped, but it is Islam that has a general prohibition. The Jews did not.
In the same way that the modern U.S. Evangelical Church disdains alcohol, but there is not a general prohibition against alcohol in Christianity.
Greeks visited India, they saw. They remembered, they could easily have brought back items with designs. In India they wrote books on specially prepared leaves, tied together in sheafs with string, and with wood covers. They did that for thousands of years.
Sheesh.
Show 1 single example of alcohol / drunkenness in the bible that had good results.
One can make the case that alcohol use is not a sin (debatable), but, alcohol does affect the mind, loosening inhibitions (morals) putting one in a position that facilitates sin. One should not facilitate sin.
Drunkeness is forbidden. But the use of alcohol is not forbidden, in fact it is spoken about in celebrations of the Lord, as a gift of God to man, and as use in medicinal ways. Examples of each, in turn, are below.
Deuteronomy 14:26
Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice.
Psalms 104:14-15
He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
2 Timothy 5:23
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
Wine is referenced throughout the Bible as an actual substance, so common that it is considered part of daily life.
(2 Chronicles 11:11
He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them, with supplies of food, olive oil and wine
Ezra 6:9
Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and olive oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given them daily without fail)
It is also used figuratively as the end result of life’s choices. It can be both good and bad, and is used symbolically in Jewish sacrifices. Wine is used as an offering to the Lord during the daily sacrifices.
(Exodus 29:38-41
This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old. Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight. With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning—a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD.)
Wine and other fermented drinks are not forbidden by the Bible. Drunkeness is. Temperance and self-control are necessary for believers in all aspects of their lives.
I ask again - where is your primary source stating Greeks were studying Indian art and architecture before Alexander?
How was the Sanskrit translated into Greek anyway? That was not done until after Alexander.
No need to Sheesh - prove it to me - I am open to new facts.
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