Posted on 10/10/2020 11:11:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 2,000-year-old mikvah (ritual bath) was recently uncovered in the Lower Galilee. Most people probably would never have heard about the discovery if not for the dramatic photos of the entire structure being carried by truck to a nearby kibbutz for preservation.
The remarkable sight of a truck-borne mikvah, however, also makes one pause and reflect on the remarkable implications of the archeological find.
It means that 2,000 years ago, the residents of the Lower Galilee were practicing the exact same religious rituals that Orthodox Jews throughout the world practice today.
Those Galileans, in other words, were Jews. They weren't "Palestinians." The word "Palestine" had not yet been invented. They weren't Arabs or Muslims -- the invasion of the Land of Israel by Muslim fundamentalists from the Arabian Peninsula was still 600 years in the future...
Those meddling archaeologists and their discoveries keep getting in the way of Palestinian propaganda!
...In the Givati Parking Lot excavation in Jerusalem, archaeologists discovered Hebrew-language inscriptions dating back 2,600 years. One was a stone seal with the words "belonging to Ikkar son of Matanyahu." The other was a clay seal impression that read "belonging to Nathan-Melech, servant of the king."
...Elsewhere in Jerusalem, archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old paved road that was used by Jews who made the annual pilgrimage to the capital at the time of the festivals of Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot...
Meanwhile, excavators from the University of North Carolina discovered two stunning mosaics at the site of a 1,600-year-old synagogue near Huqoq in northern Israel. One depicts a scene from the exodus of the Jews from ancient Egypt. The other shows images based on verses in the Torah's book of Daniel.
(Excerpt) Read more at algemeiner.com ...
There are indeed. They are called liberals.
I'm hardly a defended of the so-called Palestinians, but this is at least questionable. Herodotus seems to have used it. Even the Torah, which is written without vowels tells us about PLSTN (usually rendered Philistine in translations).
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Can’t deny what’s in the ground.
Izzat the same alternative reality where there's only 2 sexes?
Enquiring minds wanna know!! d;^)
The Romans called what is now present day Israel “Judea’’.
Yes, that's the place. Where women are women. Men are men, and sheep are scared. Oops, shouldn't have written that last part.
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The phrase, "islamic scientist" is an internal contradiction.
Judea referred to a part of Palestine.
Judea or Judaea, and the modern version of Judah (/dʒuːˈdiːə/;[1] from Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yəhuda, Tiberian Yəhûḏāh, Greek: Ἰουδαία, Ioudaía; Latin: Iūdaea) is the ancient Biblical Hebrew, the contemporaneous Latin, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of the region of Palestine.Galilee, the region of Israel (Palestine) that Jesus and his disciples were from, was not part of Judea. This is obvious from many passages in the Bible. For example:
After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want a to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, Jesus brothers said to him, Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world. For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
Therefore Jesus told them, My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come. After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.
I never read of Romans referring to Israel as “Palestine’’, only “Judea’’.
The area was renamed Syria Palaestina after the Bar Kochva Revolt.
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