[NYer]

Recent archaeological find, thought by some to be the biblical palace built by King David, stirs controversy over the right of the Jewish people to claim Jerusalem.

[NYer]

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[NYer]

Apologies if this is a duplicate thread. I searched on Jerusalme and came up with only older news postings.

[fanfan]

Ping!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Whatever it is it is: *Fascinating* And like anything else of this world- people who need nothing more than faith will have difficulty seeing eye to eye with people who need concrete proof.

[NeilGus]

It has been a while since I last studied this in the Old Testament but didn't Solomon build the temple from plans God gave David?

[paudio]

All ancient texts are subject to historiography doubt, as the texts we have now might have been written by officials, visitors, poets, priests, etc. Now, if we put aside the value of biblical texts as religious texts, I don't see why they have to single out books in the bible to have higher burden of proof.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Others, driven by a combination of interests, ideologies, or political agendas, will seize on any shred of uncertainty in the building’s identification to distract attention from the momentousness of the find. Both groups will invoke professionalism and objectivity to undermine the proposition that this was David’s palace: They will either raise the bar of required proofs to a standard that no archaeological find could ever meet, or they will simply dismiss it all as wishful thinking in the service of religious or Zionist motives.

Sounds like the archaeological community has its Democrats as well.

I guess Biblical archaeology will always be thus: simply deny outright all historical assertions of the Bible, and then when reasonable supporting evidence is found, either pretend the evidence doesn't apply or change the subject by attacking the motives of those presenting the evidence.

[redgolum]

This will drive the IEA nuts.

They are very against anything that says that ancient Israel actually existed. It is not PC.

[N8VTXNinWV]

interestng read ping-a-ling!

[agere_contra]

But what about the poor dispossessed Jebusites? Oh those evil Joooos ...

[R. Scott]

… the absence of evidence from the relevant period shows that the great unified monarchy of David and Solomon was really an imaginary historiosophic creation.

Absence of proof is not proof. I haven’t access to the full article, but it would be nice if a miqveh is found.

[Sleeping Freeper]

Thanks for the post. I enjoy history and view the biblical accounts as one source of history. To me this theory is more plausible than many other claims that have been made about other sites.

[kpp_kpp]

the sceptics...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/international/middleeast/05jerusalem.html?ex=1133931600&en=dcf6bd1c31cffd82&ei=5070&hp&ex=1123214400&en=01454da81038d1b8&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[SJackson]

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[Enterprise]

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[Fatalist]

Ping

[MinuteGal]

Time was when secular archeologists and elite museum curator-types could hide major secrets involving dig-finds and get away with it.

Not any more. Not with the world-wide internet forums and blogs, and of course, Christopher Lee and Free Republic, heheh.

Leni

[Cacique]

btt

[antihannityguy]

ping to self for later read

[reelfoot]

Perhaps those who will bend over backward to refute Biblical accuracy will be able to identify it as a Jebusite Wal-Mart.