Posted on 08/17/2021 7:44:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The question is, did that Babylonian conquest and exile really happen? Based on a dazzling find in Jerusalem, yes, it did:
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Archaeologists from the University of North Carolina made a remarkable discovery while digging on Mount Zion in Jerusalem that is evidence of the Babylonian conquest of the city in 586 BCE: a golden earring.
Dr. Rafi Lewis, co-director of the project, explained the importance of the tiny earring.
“With finds like this, there is a material value but, more importantly, there is a spiritual and emotional value,” Dr. Lewis told Breaking Israel News. “On that level, this find is quite literally priceless. We can establish the context as the destruction of the First Temple without any doubt. We have made similar finds outside of the city but this is the first time we made such finds inside the city.”
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“This is not proof of the destruction of the Temple since the dig is on Mount Zion, some distance from the Temple Mount,” Lewis said, noting that there has been no archaeological work permitted on the Temple Mount due to the political and religious sensitivity. “But this is certainly proof of the destruction of Jerusalem [in the Babylonian captivity time period].”
Thanks for the cool info.
Anyone who thinks the Bible is just some sort of religeous book or a fairy tale does so at their own peril IMO.
Madding. All that text and not one word about what was found
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
Ping!..............
Golden earring
All those assumptions based on a single earring. More madness.
Ping!................
Radar Love........................
Didn’t bother to read it, or do you lack comprehension?
The earring was found in a layer of ash that also contained bronze and iron arrowheads, Iron Age potsherds, and lamps. Lewis explained that the arrowheads were of Scythian origin. The Scythians, believed to be Eurasian nomads, were mercenary archers hired by the Babylonians. Such arrowheads have been found at other archaeological conflict sites in Israel and outside dating from the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.
“They were like the special forces since the Scythians were the best archers of the time,” Lewis said. “Also from this, we know that this was a scene of a Babylonian battle. We can say for certain that the archaeological context of the site was the taking of Jerusalem.“
RE: Madding. All that text and not one word about what was found
Read all about it here and share with us whether this is convincing evidence or simply a supporting one:
Yes there is
Wow...we looked at that Psalm today on this Thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3985828/posts?page=4
Coincidence? I think not.
Just more assumptions that make no sense, unless a lot of other assumptions are taken. Sorry you had to include a personal attack to make whatever lame point you are attempting.
Just not enough evidence to warrant the claim.
I believe the find dates to 2019.
I love stuff like this!
Thanks, SJackson.
Not one picture of the supposed earring - as usual.
Sorry I challenged your reading comprehension.
In archeology many things have to be inferred with the evidence found.
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