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Scientists excited by stone record of Solomon's wisdom
The Times ^
| January 18, 2003
| Stephen Farrell
Posted on 01/17/2003 4:03:58 PM PST by MadIvan
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It's interesting how much of the Bible is emerging to be historical fact - I also refer you to the works of David Rohl, eminent Egyptologist.
Regards, Ivan
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01/17/2003 4:03:58 PM PST
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MadIvan
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Bump!
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01/17/2003 4:04:18 PM PST
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MadIvan
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01/17/2003 4:05:08 PM PST
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To: MadIvan
Yet Professor Joseph Naveh, an academic asked to analyse the fragment in 2001
Curious, how many experts have examined it to date, and under what institution's care/inspection is it currently?
If it's not forged, it's quite significant from any perspective.
The part that strikes me odd is the "agents representing its proprietor". What's the big secret?
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01/17/2003 4:42:19 PM PST
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visualops
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01/17/2003 4:53:37 PM PST
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weikel
To: MadIvan
bttt...
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01/17/2003 4:56:11 PM PST
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sit-rep
To: MadIvan
Um. Gle\ inteannach, but I don't see the relevance to Washington state (whoever added that to the topics)...
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01/17/2003 5:19:46 PM PST
by
Eala
To: visualops
"The part that strikes me odd is the "agents representing its proprietor". What's the big secret?"
Peace loving Palestinians get killed if they sell land to an Israeli.
What do you think would happen if they sold an artifact that proved the Bibles claim that the temple was in Jerusalem and that the Jews "owned" it???
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01/17/2003 5:21:19 PM PST
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Vulpes
To: MadIvan
"...and so I had my soldiers cut the baby in half. It was the only way to get them to shut up."
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01/17/2003 5:22:03 PM PST
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Nick Danger
(Light fuse, step away, do not hold in hand)
To: MadIvan
Cool. Do you read Biblical Archaeology Review? The title says it all, for those who aren't familiar with it. Great bi-monthly magezine. I've been reading it for years.
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01/17/2003 5:22:34 PM PST
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To: MadIvan
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I will of course have to study it further.
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01/17/2003 5:37:45 PM PST
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APBaer
To: MadIvan
Jehoash tablet said found near Muslim cemetery By Nadav Shragai
The inscription attributed to King Jehoash whose discovery was announced earlier this week was reportedly found near Jerusalem's Muslim cemetery, outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, not far from Golden Gate, according to information obtained by Ha'aretz.
Jehoash ruled in Jerusalem at the end of the ninth century B.C.E. The inscription has been authenticated by the National Infrastructure Ministry's Geological Survey of Israel.
Three different people and institutions involved in examining the stone told Ha'aretz that representatives of the collector who owns the stone told them it was found near the Muslim cemetery. One added that he was told it had been found following a landslide or flood.
Prof. Yosef Naveh of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a well-known expert on the development of the alphabet, said agents of the collector brought it to him for inspection in 2001. He said he was asked to meet the agents in a Jerusalem hotel room, where he found two people: a man who introduced himself as Tzur and "an Arab youth who never opened his mouth the entire time, so I don't know his name. [Tzur] told me where the stone was found [near the Muslim cemetery] and even speculated that the stone had actually come from the inner sections of the Temple Mount, but that its finders - Palestinian Muslims - were afraid to say so, due to the religious-political sensibilities of the compound."
Tzur, Naveh continued, "made me promise not to mention [the stone] or talk about it with anyone, because the life of the Palestinian who found and sold it would be endangered," and he indeed refrained from mentioning the inscription until it was made public by the Geological Survey and reported in Ha'aretz, which he considered sufficient to release him from his promise. He said he soon plans to publish his conclusions about the inscription - which he believes is a forgery.
Another person who examined the inscription said he was also told it had been found near the Muslim cemetery, not far from Golden Gate. He said the "courier" who brought it to him seemed very nervous and was constantly checking to make sure that no representatives of the Antiquities Authority were present. "He was very afraid the artifact would be taken from him, and throughout the tests we conducted, he wandered around ceaselessly, in great tension."
Both Naveh and the other two people who inspected the inscription said the collector's representatives refused to leave the stone during the examinations, which lasted for a few hours each time, and also refused to leave it there for lengthier tests.
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01/17/2003 5:47:43 PM PST
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blam
To: Vulpes
Good point, I hadn't considered that.
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01/17/2003 5:56:04 PM PST
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visualops
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To: MadIvan
How does one carbon date stone?
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01/17/2003 6:00:33 PM PST
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Junior
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To: MadIvan
Interesting but "stone" cannot be carbon dated. Carbon dating relies on respiration something a "stone" cannot do.
To: MadIvan
I think I can barely make out something like "the Philistines continually misunderestimate our resolve."
To: MadIvan
David Rohl BUMP!
"Pharaohs and Kings" Must-Read. Find out what the mainstream archiologists and scholars don't want you to even consider. Dangerous knowledge.
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01/18/2003 2:07:46 AM PST
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dasboot
To: Nick Danger
LOL, you do have to wonder what he would have done if, after giving the order to make the women come to their senses if the women instead said, "OK, go ahead, the darn thing wasn't potty trained yet, anyway."
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01/18/2003 2:14:04 AM PST
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piasa
Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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01/01/2005 12:26:43 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: MadIvan
Am I missing something here? How does a 2,300 year old inscription document events that took place 2,900 years ago? This sounds no more contemporary than a book written today about Joan of Arc. I'm sure that Jews in Hellenistic Judea knew about Solomon's temple, probably from Scripture, but this doesn't appear to be extra-biblical confirmation of the Temple's existence, unless I'm misunderstanding the article.
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01/01/2005 12:34:37 PM PST
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jalisco555
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats)
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