Posted on 10/26/2016 6:48:01 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
A rare and important find was exposed in an enforcement operation initiated by the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery: a document written on papyrus and dating to the time of the First Temple (seventh century BCE) in which the name of the city of Jerusalem is clearly indicated. This is the earliest extra-biblical source to mention Jerusalem in Hebrew writing.
The document, which was illicitly plundered from one of the Judaean Desert caves by a band of antiquities robbers and was seized in a complex operation by the IAA’s agents, was presented at a press conference Wednesday.
Two lines of ancient Hebrew script were preserved on the document that is made of papyrus (paper produced from the pith of the papyrus plant [Cyperus papyrus]). A paleographic examination of the letters and a C14 analysis determined that the artifact should be dated to the seventh century BCE – to the end of the First Temple period. Most of the letters are clearly legible, and the proposed reading of the text appears
[in the article]
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Gee, I’ve never heard of papyrus surviving from that far back. The Egyptian stuff seems mainly AD, and the Dead Sea Scroll stuff is mainly first century BC or thereabouts.
SO, it’s a Bill of Lading?............
It was made of the higher quality domestic papyrus, not that cheap imported Egyptian stuff!...............
Praise the Lord that this survived. Hope it’s not a forgery.
Thank you both — I wanted to include those pictures in my post but didn’t know how.
JA
Sounds more like a gift, at least to me, and this was an accompanying note with it?.
Send it over to UNESCO.
A Bill of Lading is a receipt given by a carrier to the shipper for receipt of goods to be shipped.
Taxes back then were usually paid in wine, olive oil, grains and dried fruits or other material goods to be shipped to the king’s storage houses.
The receipt was the proof that you paid your taxes..............
There are Egyptian papyrus’ from 2500BC, the time of the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Papyrus was the favored writing material of the time, and it was only from Egypt.
When the Muslim pirates cut off the trade in papyrus in the late 7th century, there was no cheap substitue, only extremely expensive parchment.
That is when the “dark ages” started.
https://www.amazon.com/Mohammed-Charlemagne-Revisited-History-Controversy/dp/0578094185
No!!!!!
Say it’s not so!!
The Jews were in Jerusalem before Islam? (sarc.)
If you say so, I’ll take your word for it.
Ok thanks. I guess I was thinking of the Christian biblical stuff found in Egypt.
It has always been thus................
Back before the Sumerian cuneiform writing was deciphered, there were those hand sized clay blocks all over the Middle East. They could be found on roadsides, garbage sites and practically everywhere, but nobody knew what they were.
Then they deciphered the writing and soon discovered that the vast majority were TAX receipts................
What is the 7th century BCE? How would that equate to BC/AD dating? I am old school and don’t understand the New Age PC expressions of antiquity.
Dark Ages?..........that’s Wayciss!.............
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