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3,000-year-old head may be face of God [uh,.no]
Live Science ^
| 31 July 2020
| Owen Jarus
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; khirbetqeiyafa
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:19:30 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
The rest of the Khirbet Qeiyafa keyword, chrono:
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:19:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:20:11 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Nonsense, it’s an ancient ocarina.
To: SunkenCiv
That looks like my high school art project.
And I got an F-minus on that.
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:24:12 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: SunkenCiv
It looks like a Crash Bandicoot character.
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:40:57 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks more like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot if you ask me.
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:43:05 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: SunkenCiv
The first things I saw were boobs.
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:44:04 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
To: SunkenCiv
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
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:51:53 PM PDT
by
Karliner
(Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:55:07 PM PDT
by
exnavy
(american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
To: SunkenCiv
wi eyes on the side of it's head??? never...
looks more like a goat
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posted on
08/22/2020 2:55:17 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: SunkenCiv
Porn.
And, earliest archaeological find of “kink”.
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posted on
08/22/2020 3:02:18 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Sirius Lee
“The first things I saw were boobs.”
LOL!
ME TOO!
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posted on
08/22/2020 3:21:24 PM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: SunkenCiv
more like Bart Simpson...
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posted on
08/22/2020 3:22:43 PM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: SunkenCiv
That’s exactly what I expect to come face to face with when I die.
No one ever said the Lord ages gracefully.
To: mass55th
“Looks more like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot if you ask me.”
Stop denigrating that piece of art by making such a comparison. :)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
So God is Bart Simpson?
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/22/2020 3:52:55 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
To: SunkenCiv
I thought God looks like Jerry Garcia?
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08/22/2020 3:56:29 PM PDT
by
Jolla
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