Posted on 07/27/2006 12:07:04 PM PDT by antonia
[The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83], psalm at bottom of page here. Ireland worker finds ancient psalms in bog Tue Jul 25, 7:11 PM ET
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog. The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries. "This is really a miracle find," said Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, which has the book stored in refrigeration and facing years of painstaking analysis before being put on public display. "There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out. First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing." He said an engineer was digging up bogland last week to create commercial potting soil somewhere in Ireland's midlands when, "just beyond the bucket of his bulldozer, he spotted something." Wallace would not specify where the book was found because a team of archaeologists is still exploring the site. "The owner of the bog has had dealings with us in past and is very much in favor of archaeological discovery and reporting it," Wallace said. Crucially, he said, the bog owner covered up the book with damp soil. Had it been left exposed overnight, he said, "it could have dried out and just vanished, blown away." The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the name of Israel. Wallace said several experts spent Tuesday analyzing only that page — the number of letters on each line, lines on each page, size of page — and the book's binding and cover, which he described as "leather velum, very thick wallet in appearance." It could take months of study, he said, just to identify the safest way to pry open the pages without damaging or destroying them. He ruled out the use of X-rays to investigate without moving the pages. Ireland already has several other holy books from the early medieval period, including the ornately illustrated Book of Kells, which has been on display at Trinity College in Dublin since the 19th century.
Psalm 83:1 A song. A psalm of Asaph.
O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.
Psa 83:2 See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads.
Psa 83:3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
Psa 83:4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Psa 83:5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
Psa 83:6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
Psa 83:7 Gebal,* Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
Psa 83:8 Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah
Psa 83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
Psa 83:10 who perished at Endor and became like refuse on the ground.
Psa 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Psa 83:12 who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
Psa 83:13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Psa 83:14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
Psa 83:15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
Psa 83:16 Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O Lord.
Psa 83:17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
Psa 83:18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord—that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Footnotes:
83:7 That is, Byblos
1. Interesting
2. I wonder if its a sign I spend too much time on the net that I read this three times before I realized it didn't say "Ireland worker finds ancient psalms in blog."
It's truely miraculous that this has all come about NOW given all that is going on in the middle east.
For those that think that this scripture has to do with Israel during biblical times, I offer this.
Psa 83:4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Israel wasn't a nation until May 1948 which would make this prophetic.
Considering current events and the content of this Psalm, could this be coincidence? I don't think so. This would seem to be Providence.
Is it coincidence that half a dozen threads have reported this archaeological find?
Better to have half a dozen than none at all. Link them all together if you are so afraid of redundancy. Links are what the web is all about.
Though I must say that I do think that you police types are the biggest repetitive space wasters and downgraders of the content on freerepublic.
And therefore you are?
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