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To: wagglebee
He told of "scores of coins, many of them Jewish and minted by the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasty." This find might help explain why Jesus Christ drove the money-changers out of the Temple

*buzzer sounds*

Nope, Jesus stopped the business beacuse HIS FATHER'S house was for Prayer & Worship and it was instead being used as a "Den for Thieves".

And there Was a lot of crooked business (price-gouging, kickbacks, etc.) going on between the Jewish Leades & Merchants in those days.

6 posted on 01/02/2006 11:26:27 AM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: ExcursionGuy84

It's too bad that the Muslim authorities don't permit archaeologists to examine the site BEFORE they excavate it to expand the mosque.
They have done a great deal on the Temple Mount to destroy any evidence of Jewish occupation there, including sawing up stone blocks (obliterating their frieze designs) and paving over various locations.
Now, the Israelis only get to sift through the mounds of dirt which are left, after being removed from their original site.
(Were any other ancient site treated in this way, probably the UN, the EU, and several universities would complain. But, of course, here we are dealing with the Palestinians. . .)


8 posted on 01/02/2006 11:34:13 AM PST by CondorFlight
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