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1960: Archaeologist Announces Finding 2,000-year Old Letters by Bar Kochba in Desert Cave
Haaretz ^ | May 12, 2015 | David B. Green

Posted on 08/26/2018 1:20:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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1 posted on 08/26/2018 1:20:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 08/26/2018 1:20:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thank heaven he splurged by buying forever stamps.


3 posted on 08/26/2018 1:25:05 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

And in that climate, they don’t have to worry about much besides the gloom of night.


4 posted on 08/26/2018 1:27:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

At the Kochba Cabana...

Here at the Kochba

Music and fashion were always in fashion

At the Kochba...they fell in love...


5 posted on 08/26/2018 1:33:58 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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Down at the Kochba Bar
Down at the Kochba Bar
Down at the Kochba Bar
Down at the Kochba Bar

6 posted on 08/26/2018 1:38:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Given all the fake archeological finds recently, I was just wondering what font did they use?


7 posted on 08/26/2018 1:50:37 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: seawolf101

Times Old Roman, because, you know, it’s old.


8 posted on 08/26/2018 2:03:28 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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We have very few if any actual autograph letters from the Roman era. (There MIGHT be a few words from Cleopatra on one order she gave.)

Bar Kochba’s extant letters shows him to have been a brutal commander (as noted elsewhere in historical texts).

Interestingly, he spells the name Joshua (Jesus) as Yeshua,
the same as messianics do today.


9 posted on 08/26/2018 2:08:51 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: SunkenCiv

Three men walk into the Kochba Bar...a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim...


10 posted on 08/26/2018 2:20:31 PM PDT by moovova
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Not funny, but still...just crazy...

“When some documents found by the Ta’amireh in another cave...turned up for sale in the antiquities market... Then more letters from the same period showed up for sale in early 1960...”

As much as I’d love to buy something like that, how could you even be sure they were authentic? Those things are true treasures.


11 posted on 08/26/2018 2:27:16 PM PDT by moovova
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They don't come out as nice neat pieces of paper, they're in fragments, and can be dated by various methods. So, not fake.

12 posted on 08/26/2018 2:32:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: seawolf101
Like what?

13 posted on 08/26/2018 2:35:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Three men walk into the Kochba Bar.
The fourth one ducks.

14 posted on 08/26/2018 2:37:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Three men walk into the Kochba bar.
One walks out.


15 posted on 08/26/2018 2:55:27 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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To: SunkenCiv
I remember watching and enjoying Masada when I was a kid.
16 posted on 08/26/2018 3:15:57 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting NOVA documentary. Thanks!!


17 posted on 08/26/2018 3:52:59 PM PDT by Track9 (Dems are vehemently opposed to separating kids from their traffickers.)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL!


18 posted on 08/26/2018 4:21:44 PM PDT by moovova
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To: SunkenCiv

Rock the Kochba doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Rock the Casbah.


19 posted on 08/26/2018 5:34:10 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: SunkenCiv
Like what?

Hyeroglyphic or Old Roman,

20 posted on 08/26/2018 7:10:30 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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