Skip to comments.
Shabbat boundary rock with Hebrew etching discovered
Jerusalem Post ^
| July 12, 2011
| Oren Kessler
Posted on 07/22/2011 3:31:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-22 next last
Photo by: Institute for Galilean Archeology
1
posted on
07/22/2011 3:31:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Cool. Thanks for posting.
2
posted on
07/22/2011 3:33:24 PM PDT
by
DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
(Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Amerisrael; Ari Bussel; AU72; BlackVeil; blam; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
It’s a one-time ping. :’)
3
posted on
07/22/2011 3:37:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
4
posted on
07/22/2011 3:39:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
5
posted on
07/22/2011 3:40:07 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting. Notice how the maker clipped of some material along the top to give it an angular character.
That's like the Spanish boundary stones. (I'm busy looking up earlier Roman stones ~ their later ones are dedicated to the god Terminus and are quite finished ~ many with carved heads on them).
This particular stone (even though we can't see the whole thing since the writer was more concerned with the word on it than the shape) appears to be a boundary marker.
6
posted on
07/22/2011 3:47:59 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: SunkenCiv
7
posted on
07/22/2011 3:47:59 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow this is realy cool. It is just so interesting when something like this is found that links history together.
8
posted on
07/22/2011 3:58:39 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...
9
posted on
07/22/2011 4:02:25 PM PDT
by
NYer
("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
To: SunkenCiv
There's another article about the stone
here, with pictures, which explains the origin and significance of Shabbat boundary stones.
To: SunkenCiv
Nowadays they use power lines to designate the borders of an eruv. There’s one right around the corner from where I used to go to school. Makes it easier to get around and carry stuff during the Sabbath.
11
posted on
07/22/2011 4:11:37 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: muawiyah
Recently I plucked a file off the Zahi Hawass blog site showing one of the Akhetaten city boundary stones. Akhenaten decided he was divine, but set up the boundary stones beyond which he would never again go. My favorites though are the Pillars of Ashoka; two or three of them up in Afghanistan are in Aramaic.
12
posted on
07/22/2011 5:11:21 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Fiji Hill; knarf; AnAmericanMother
13
posted on
07/22/2011 5:11:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Captain Beyond; NYer
14
posted on
07/22/2011 5:12:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: muawiyah
This photo doesn’t do it justice. It’s quite large.
To: SunkenCiv
Yep, Shabbat is clear. Great find!
16
posted on
07/22/2011 9:15:07 PM PDT
by
WVNan
To: SunkenCiv
News of the inscription, discovered by chance Sunday by a visitor strolling the community grounds, quickly reached Mordechai Aviam, head of the Institute for Galilean Archeology at Kinneret College.Good grief. No one had ever noticed it before?
17
posted on
07/23/2011 3:28:11 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: SuziQ
Don’t worry, I’m sure it will be condemned as a fake, if it hasn’t already.
18
posted on
07/23/2011 5:46:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
That's right. Doncha know the Jews are recent interlopers in Palestine?
(You really have to be batsh#t crazy to believe a lot of the stuff they believe in the Middle East.)
To: colorado tanker
Well, by a weird coincidence...
20
posted on
07/25/2011 5:36:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-22 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson