Old Testament 'proof': Royal seal discovered

World Net Daily ^ | 8/3/08 | Joe Kovacs

[Convert from ECUSA]

A team of archaeologists in Israel has unearthed what's believed to be the royal seal of an Old Testament prince who is said to have tossed the prophet Jeremiah down a well. Royal seal bears name of Gedaliah, a prince to Judah's King Zedekiah, mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. (courtesy Dr. Eilat Mazar) The stamped engraving, known as a "bulla," was discovered earlier this year about 600 feet south of the Temple Mount, but is just now making headlines. Team leader Dr. Eilat Mazar of Jerusalem's Hebrew University says the imprint was found in clay, astonishingly well-preserved, bearing the name of Gedaliah, the son of Pashur. "How absolutely fantastic and special this find is can only be realized when you hold in your hand this magnificent one-centimeter piece of clay and know that it survived 2,600 years in the debris of the destruction, and came to us complete and in perfect condition," Mazar said. Gedaliah is mentioned by name in Jeremiah 38:1 as he served Judah's King Zedekiah in the final days before Jerusalem was conquered by Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. The excavation area in the section of Jerusalem known as the City of David, looking east. (courtesy Dr. Eilat Mazar) The prophet's writings tell of the actions that Gedaliah and his fellow princes took against him."

[SunkenCiv]

He did not believe that the people that others called Hittites were really Hittites. He said they were Grecian peoples (which they may have been).

If he really said that, he's dead wrong, and ignorant or stupid. One of the eight or nine languages found in the Hattusas ("Hittite" capital) archive of cuneiform tablets turned out to be Indoeuropean (it was cracked by Emil Forrer about 80 years ago); the most common language found in the archive was Arzawan, of which McQueen wrote, "appears to be Lydian", and also isn't Greek (although, obviously, Greek is also on the Indoeuropean language tree).

The Hatti spoke a non-Indoeuropean language (preserved on some of the tablets; cuneiform was adaptable to pretty much any spoken language) and were living under foreign rule during the heyday of Hattusas, a capital perhaps built by the invaders; the invaders also left the archive.

[Convert from ECUSA]

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[redgolum]

That is the guy. He didn't dispute that there was a civilization on the Antatolyian plains, but that they were the Biblical Hittites.