Tiny Tablet Provides Proof For Old Testament

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-10-2007 | Nigel Reynolds

[woollyone]

Lot was never supposed to be with Abraham...he was supposed to be left behind. because of Abraham didn't follow God's insturctions, Lot was continually a thorn in Abraham's side.

Check out GEN 12:1-4...
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son..."

[Kevmo]

A throwaway detail in the Old Testament turns out to be accurate and true
***once again.

[muawiyah]

The folks who reported on Noah's flood didn't have a calendar and had no idea what year it was.

The reason the Bishop miscounted the years since Noah was due to the fact that Moses removed every story from the ancient texts that had any animal other than a snake in it.

[muawiyah]

BTW, she disobeyed the gods of the hearth (among them Saravashti) when she let her worthless husband, Lot, take the family to a town full of male homosexuals.

By not taking the lead in the very important family business of finding husbands for her daughters, she turned to stone.

The more recent version in the Bible is filled with rabbinical commentary that is at best misinformed.

[SunkenCiv]

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[NathanR]

Seems totally reasonable. Remember “Peking” and “Beijing” are different transliterations for the same place name.

It is the same city, however. It would make sense that “Nabu-sharrussu-ukin” and “Nebo-Sarsekim” would be different transliterations for the same name

[hunter112]

Like the subjects of evolution, global warming, and intelligent design, people are going to read into anything what reinforces their existing belief.

[Old Professer]

I suppose it’s safe to say he wasn’t paying for a load of condoms.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Silly. The Bible wasn’t written until 1650 to cover Cromwell’s war crimes in the British Civil War and his atrocities against the Scottish and Irish. /sarcasm

[tutstar]

read later

[Jaded]

Looks like shredded wheat!

[Red Badger]

IT’s Greek to me.......

[coconutt2000]

a bill of receipt acknowledging Nabu-sharrussu-ukin's payment of 0.75 kg of gold to a temple in Babylon.

Chief eunuch dude sure kept his receipts in a safe place. I wonder if the Babylonian Internal Revenue Service will credit him a tax deduction for his generous donation.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for posting it.

I’ll stay out of the fray, too; but found it quite interesting reading.

Makes me wonder what else is buried in those hollowed halls of the Brit’s basements.

[ApplegateRanch]

I believe the petroglyphs for this one are actually at the Hermitage which is presently in use as a quite serious museum in the city of Petrograd in Russia.

When did they haul it out of Nashville? Did we get The Stroganov palace in return?

(I know; but every time I see that name used for the Russian museum, I just can't help myself.)

[humblegunner]

Maybe that's close enough for biblical scholars, but to me, it's like saying that Paul McCartney is also RuPaul.

Ru Paul is trying his hand at politics these days.

I'd hate to think he was McCartney, too... whoa.

[ApplegateRanch]

Lot’s daughters did that because they thought the whole world was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah.

They knew better than that; Lot begged the angels not to send him into the mountains, and he & his family were granted refuge in Zoar, which was spared for his sake.

It was AFTER the other cities of the plain were destroyed that 'he feared to stay in Zoar'; he and his daughters THEN fled to the very mountains, and a cave, where he had earlier begged off of being sent.

Re-read Genisis 19.

[humblegunner]

Yo, playa.. you’re posting gang tags!

[mylife]

Ruh roh!
Nebuchanezzer is gonna be pissed

[Marysecretary]

The Jews made sure that they were copied correctly. They were extremely strict about that. Every jot and every tittle had to be just so. It seems I recall that if they made a mistake, it was their last one—get what I mean?