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Posted on 08/22/2020 2:19:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Live Science contacted several scholars not affiliated with Garfinkel's work to get their thoughts on the Khirbet Qeiyafa head and Garfinkel's interpretation of it.
Most were unable to reply at press time. However, Oded Lipschits, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University who co-directs excavations at Tell Moza, and Shua Kisilevitz, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University who excavates at Tell Moza, denounced the idea in a jointly written response.
"Although we cannot rule out the possibility that the human heads from Mo?a and Qeiyafa depicted gods, they have no markings, symbols or attributes -- such as horns, crescents, bulls -- found on figures and visual representations throughout the ancient Near East, that would identify them as divine figures. Furthermore, when gods were depicted on animals, they did not sit on them -- they do not need the transport -- they stood on them," Lipschits and Kisilevitz told Live Science in their response.
They also said that archaeological and historical research indicates that around 3,000 years ago Yahweh wasn't even worshipped in the region yet, much less was he the sole god of Israel.
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The rest of the Khirbet Qeiyafa keyword, chrono:
Nonsense, it’s an ancient ocarina.
And I got an F-minus on that.
It looks like a Crash Bandicoot character.
Looks more like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot if you ask me.
The first things I saw were boobs.
Ha ha once I just mushed a piece of clay and stuck some holes in it, called it a pencil holder. Still looked better than that
Ant hill.
wi eyes on the side of it's head??? never... looks more like a goat
Porn.
And, earliest archaeological find of “kink”.
“The first things I saw were boobs.”
LOL!
ME TOO!
more like Bart Simpson...
That’s exactly what I expect to come face to face with when I die.
No one ever said the Lord ages gracefully.
“Looks more like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot if you ask me.”
Stop denigrating that piece of art by making such a comparison. :)
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I thought God looks like Jerry Garcia?
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