Posted on 07/25/2019 12:55:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Not many people realize this but the biggest slab of raw glass from the ancient world was discovered in northern Israel in "Beit She'arim", in the Galilee, in 1956. The rectangular glass slab is 11?.5?.5 feet, weighing 9 tons. Beit She'arim is a cemetery where the editor of the Mishna (the first "layer" of the Talmud), Rabbi Judah the Prince/Yehudah haNasi (135 to 217 CE) is buried. Most people visiting this cemetery are not aware that the chunk of glass is there, looking somewhat opaque on the floor of the cave that serves as the visitors' center...
Again, no one realizes this, but to reiterate; the biggest piece of glass, the largest factory and the oldest blown glass in the world were all found in Israel. Why were Jews so interested in glass? First of all, it was a secret recipe guarded for millennia with more care than the recipe for Coca Cola. Second of all, according to Jewish law, glass does not absorb "tuma" i.e., impurity. If a piece of pork makes contact with ceramic - you've invalidated the plate and have to destroy it. But if glass comes into contact with the ham, wash the plate and you're good to go. So the Jewish people have a religious reason to desire glass. Which brings us back to the biggest slab sitting in the Galilee to this day. What's it doing there?
(Excerpt) Read more at simchajtv.com ...
Islam is like the star trek BORG, when they captured other tribes and groups they assimilated the new workers and technology.
Corning Glass doesn’t think it too big a mystery:
https://www.cmog.org/article/mystery-slab-beth-shearim
After all these years, you’re still the best. Thank you SC!
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Good analogy, except the cultures and technologies tend to die after four or five generations under Islamic oppression.
Thanks OldGoatCPO!
Thanks jjotto. It's linked up there in the title message.
Thanks for the kind remarks and the thoughtful contributions. This slab of glass was news to me a few hours earlier. :^) Irrespective of when it was made, clearly it isn't 'Islamic glass' (the Turks didn't invent public baths, or coffee, either), or it wouldn't be in a Jewish burial complex.
I guess SunkenCiv lives up (down) to it’s name.
Yes, by all means, let us ala 1984 adopt ancient calendars. Do you prefer Sumerian, ancient Chinese, Hindu, ancient Japanese, Mayan or Islamic or other?
As long as it is not Western Civ, RIGHT?
(both names serve you well)
LOL
The biggest ball of yarn in the next cave disintegrated,,,,
Free camel rides for the kids!
BCE and CE are from western civilization. That fact that you don't know this shows you are not part of western civilization, which comes as no surprise.
BCE and CE are Orwellian newspeak. They attempt to erase foundational Western Civ; but thanks for (attempt) playing.
No, as a matter of fact, they aren't. What *you've* been doing in this topic is Orwellian. And it hasn't worked out for you, but nice try.
I not sure what to make of your response. I would suggest you educate yourself otherwise there’s no fixing what’s wrong with you
Never argue with a fool, lest ye be mistaken for one, as well.
I’ve had this argument many times in the past, with links to the earliest known usages, to no avail.
I’m certain that there are foreign readers of American articles who get equally exercised about our notation, when they read it.
Any more, I just try to point out the foreign source of an article, and state that that is their national convention, and let it go at that.
There is none more ignorant than he who refuses to learn.
I, for one, simply enjoy reading the articles, and do my best not to get my panties in a wad over side trivialities.
>>Y.ou need to have ovens that can sustain 1500°C over long periods of time. Who would ever mix sand and lake salt and throw them for days on end into a blazing fire? It’s a mystery.<<
>They were probably trying to come up with a new decorative flux and stumbled over the formulation for glass<
If not a flux, then maybe someone who wanted to level out the floor of a kiln with something they thought would stand up to the firing temps.
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