Biblical Archaeology Review | Winter 2022 Issue
BiblicalArchaeology | 4.6K subscribers | 135 views | November 27, 2022
Posted on 02/12/2023 10:38:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Palestinian Authority and its supporters have a new enemy: the Louvre.
The world's most-visited museum, the famous French institution that holds some of the greatest works of art and antiquities, is likely to find itself on anti-Israel boycott lists around the world.
This is because among the Louvre's storied collections is a slab of stone with an inscription that affirms the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
The stone, known as the Mesha Stele, was first discovered in 1868 near the Dead Sea, but its inscription, written in the language of the ancient Moabites, was only partially understandable due to centuries of wear and damage. The inscription recounts a war between King Mesha of Moab and the Jews—the same conflict described in the third chapter of the Book of Kings. In addition, the words "House of David" appeared to be included in the inscription, but damage to the artifact meant this could not be proved conclusively.
Linguists and historians associated with a University of Southern California research project recently analyzed the artifact with a new technology called Reflectance Transformation Imaging that "takes digital images of an artifact from different angles and then combined to create a precise, three-dimensional digital rendering of the piece," according to an article by two of the researchers, André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme, in the latest issue of Biblical Archeology Review.
This allowed the damaged section of the stele to be read. As was long suspected, it indeed referred to the "House of David." So, once again, archaeological discoveries have affirmed what was already written long ago in the Hebrew Bible.
Do you know what is not mentioned in the inscription? "Palestine" or "Palestinians."
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Biblical Archaeology Review | Winter 2022 Issue
BiblicalArchaeology | 4.6K subscribers | 135 views | November 27, 2022
Good read. Thanks, SC.
Thanks for providing a picture of this publication. Now we can look for it at decent bookstores or order it online.
"Palestinian Arabs" are genetically closely related to Jews --
These "Palestinians" have Egyptian, Sryiac, Bedouin, MOabite, Ammonite and yes Jewish and Israelite ancestry
Israel has constantly said that it is willingly to live and let live -- I know personally Arab (well Arab Christians) from Israel and they have had no official discrimination from the government -- yes, there are some Orthodox Jews (notably they say "more recent arrivals") who verbally abuse, but any discrimination in jobs etc. is not tolerated by the Israeli government
the "Palestinians" need to give up that exonym, call themselves simply "Arabs" or further into sectarian groups and accept Israel's right to exist
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The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at length, Chemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw off the yoke of Israel and restore the lands of Moab
It describes:
The link goes to Youtube, I prefer reading, here is the link for BAS:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/magazines/
Apparently when the stele was discovered, locals broke it up to sell the pieces for more money.
At any rate a collection of ancient texts in translation says that the Mesha stele was broken up by "the Arabs." As if all the Arabs were guilty of the vandalism.
I personally think it should be completely irrelevant (from an international standpoint) where Israel is because the world owes the Jews their Zion. Hitler didn't invent the persecution of the Jews, he just made a modern industry out of what been happening to them for centuries (mass-murders, pogroms & evictions) all over Europe.
I understand why the WWII Allies might have ignored intelligence about the death camps in an effort to focus resources on the greater problem of Nazi-controlled Europe. Except that once the war was at an end, not even 1% of the Nazis with Jewish blood on their hands from the Holocaust ever saw the inside of a jail. Even after the war the damned English tried to maintain their embargo on Jewish refugees making Aliya. It might still would be Mandatory Palestine to this day if it weren't for some of the less temperate Jews forcing the English to quit the Mandate.
The lesson of the 19th and 20th Centuries is that the world collectively doesn't give a fig about the Jews, and barely could be bothered to lift a finger to prevent them being exterminated to a man. If they were to have any chance of surviving as a race or a people, it was abundantly clear that the only alternative was to build their Zion, a place where they could be responsible for their own security and well-being, the masters of their own fate, and the keepers of their faith.
That's why I don't see Israel as a nation, I see it as a lifeboat for a people. Their last best chance of survival. And they'd be idiots (which the Jews on the whole clearly are not) if they didn't do exactly whatever is best for themselves and screw what the world thinks about it. The world lost any moral authority to have an opinion on the matter of the Jewish State when the English turned away the SS Exodus at the Port of Haifa in 1947.
So I could not care less where they make their Zion. I find it prophetic that the lands of Samaria and Judea have become that Zion, but what's more important than the geographic location is that it belongs to the Jews, lock, stock and barrel.
I understand the liberal Jews' desire to be accommodating to other religions (the Arabs). What right do you have to expect tolerance if you yourself are intolerant? But it is blindingly obvious how Israel's chances for survival are dimmed if they don't heed the (highly divisive) counsel of Ben-Gvir, that there should be no accommodation of those who want to murder you.
Because if the Jews screw this one up, there's nowhere else to go.
It was more suppressed than ignored. A few decades back, there was a biography of John J. McCloy. He was an officer of Chase Manhattan Bank who served as a dollar-a-day man during World War II and later went on to captain the Democrat Party team within the Council on Foreign Relations.
McCloy had all the information about the death camps but deliberately withheld it from higher authorities. His excuse was that revealing them would expose our intelligence gathering sources. But after his death, his personal writings showed that McCloy thought Hitler was doing the world a favor with his final solution to the "Jewish question."
I subscribed to BAR for many years. I don’t know why I let it lapse.
I’ve been a subscriber and let it lapse at least once before, I think I’ve re-upped recently. I couldn’t get the online access to the archives to work, and my inquiry about it went unanswered, so my view is, that part’s a crock.
The mag stopped being monthly quite a while back, but the fact that it has survived in the no-more-printed-materials era (a.k.a. 1984’s memory hole is being imposed, imho), and survived its founder’s death, shows it has a strong following.
Thanks Cronos and all. [sidebars]
It was found intact, and the finders were Arabs, couldn’t agree on the division, and thought also that they’d all make more if there were more artifacts to sell. So they smashed it.
My pleasure.
Love it
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