Posted on 01/30/2008 10:12:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv
On January 16, 2008, excavator Eilat Mazar announced that a team she is leading south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem had uncovered an inscribed seal that dated to the time of Nehemiah. She read the name on the seal as "Temech" (tav, mem and het) and suggested that it belonged to the family of that name mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. Soon after the announcement, however, European scholar Peter van der Veen suggested that Mazar had erred by reading the inscription straight on rather than backward, to account for the fact that a seal creates a mirror image when it used to inscribe a piece of clay. He and other critics suggested that the seal actually bears four letters (shin, lamed, mem and tav) and that the correct reading is "Shlomit," which itself may be a name mentioned in the Bible. Mazar has now acknowledged that the seal should indeed be read as "Shlomit." Her comments and those of two of her critics can be found here; we invite other experts to share their viewpoints with us.
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First Temple seal found in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post | Jan. 17, 2008 | Etgar Lefkowitz
Posted on 01/16/2008 9:41:36 PM EST by Alouette
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954943/posts
Nehemiah’s Wall Found in Jerusalem
The Trumpet | November 9, 2007 | Stephen Flurry
Posted on 11/12/2007 8:52:20 AM EST by Between the Lines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1924514/posts
Biblical Wall May Have Been Located (Book of Nehemiah)
AP | November 30, 2007 | Regan E. Doherty
Posted on 11/30/2007 4:28:22 PM EST by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932954/posts
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Posted on 12/20/2007 2:52:08 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1942413/posts
Those things are soooo cute.
Oh, that’s just soooo wrong. :’)
Are these letters so symmetrical that they can be read both ways of the mirror image? That doesn’t sound right.
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