[Tainan]

old buried stuff ping

[brent13a]

They start off the article as if it's a religion-changing discovery. As you read further it becomes clear that all this find does is change the time-frame and validate other Jewish writings.
Basically it took longer to build than previously thought.
Interesting news but it doesn't change the fact that the Moslem hordes still occupy a jewish holy site that has no worth whatsoever to the pagan religion of Islam (a religion of which much is stolen from Judaism).

[avital2]

headline is deceiving. this find means that this part of the huge installation was begun way after Herod’s death. i don’t think anyone will dispute that the initiative for the rebuilding of Temple Mount was Herod’s.

[stormhill]

In Matthew 24 Jesus predicted that the temple compound His disciples were looking at would be destroyed within their normal lifetimes ostensibly in 70 CE. The existence of the western wall has been taken by some as evidence this prophecy was not fulfilled at that time since He specifically said one stone would not sit upon another after the event.

This current discovery shows the wall was, in fact, built later thus supporting the accuracy of His words.

[basil]

Very interesting—thanks for posing.

[SkyPilot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Denial

[Jumper]

People have been digging tunnels for thousands of years in this part of the world, and the Pali’s have been digging in the same area weakening the walls; when they haul off the dirt the Israeli’s go and scavange the dirt at the land fill for artifacts....

[TalBlack]

- sacred to both Jews and Muslims -

Right. Sacred to muslims. Right.

[bobjam]

One of the most common misconceptions is that the Western Wall was part of Herod’s Temple. It was not. The Western Wall is part of the Temple Mount. Herod and his successors built the wall as a retaining wall in order to expand the level platform at the top of the Mount.

The Temple, which stood on top of the Mount was destroyed by Vespasian’s army in 70AD, but the Western Wall of the Mount was not.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Herod, the Jewish king

BZZZZZT! We're sorry, but Herod was an Edomite (descendent of Esau), not a Jew (descendent of Jacob).

[Altariel]

Interesting. Thanks!

[Doulos1]

Got to throw the Bullshiit flag on this one.
The coin could not have said 17 A.D. for the renumbering of years didn’t happen till centuries later.
Most scholars agree that King Herod lived “around 74 B.C. to around 4 B.C.” remembering that there was no B.C. or A.D. at that time so the discrepancy could only be around twenty years, hardly earth shattering news. Besides, there is a ton of problems with this secular reckoning. Jesus Christ’s life was threatened by that same King according to the Gospels. So their lives did overlap according to the Scriptures. When it comes to ancient history I will always take the Bible’s reckoning of time over man’s. God’s Word is just that, and man’s word is a pile of *.
Besides who found the coins? If they were “found” by Muslims who could believe that bunch of stone throwing riff-raff?