Posted on 08/05/2005 11:51:57 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David. Her work has been sponsored by a conservative Israeli research institute and financed by an American Jewish investment banker who would like to prove that Jerusalem was indeed the capital of the Jewish kingdom described in the Bible.
Other scholars are skeptical that the foundation walls discovered by the archaeologist, Eilat Mazar, are David's palace. But they acknowledge that what she has uncovered is rare and important: a major public building from around the 10th century B.C., with pottery shards that date to the time of David and Solomon and a government seal of an official mentioned in the book of Jeremiah.
The discovery is likely to be a new salvo in a major dispute in biblical archaeology: whether the kingdom of David was of some historical magnitude, or whether the kings were more like small tribal chieftains, reigning over another dusty hilltop.
The find will also be used in the broad political battle over Jerusalem - whether the Jews have their origins here and thus have some special hold on the place, or whether, as many Palestinians have said, including the late Yasir Arafat, the idea of a Jewish origin in Jerusalem is a myth used to justify conquest and occupation.
Hani Nur el-Din, a Palestinian professor of archaeology at Al Quds University, said he and his colleagues considered biblical archaeology an effort by Israelis "to fit historical evidence into a biblical context." He added: "The link between the historical evidence and the biblical narration, written much later, is largely missing. There's a kind of fiction about the 10th century. They try to link whatever they find to the biblical narration. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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It should be noted that some time ago, like maybe over 10 years, this guy wrote a book predicting that Christ would return in September of that year. Of course, since that didn't happen, he has been trying to explain why he was right ever since. Seems that the older he gets the nuttier he gets...
(Opinions expressed are my own....)
He's as far from my belief as you can get.
Good news. Historically the palestinians have no claim to the area but that hasn't stopped them from making claims that they have no right to make.
Here is an excerpt from http://www.masada2000.org/
" Israel first became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam! Seven hundred and twenty-six years later in 586 B.C.E. these first ancient Jews in the Land of Israel [Judea] were overrun and Israel's First Jewish Temple (on Jerusalem's Old City Temple Mount) was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of ancient Babylon. Many of the Jews were killed or expelled; however many were allowed to remain. These Jews along with their progeny and other Jews who would resettle over the next 500 years, rebuilt the Nation of Israel and also a Second Temple in Jerusalem upon the Temple Mount. Thus the claim that Jews suddenly appeared fifty years ago right after the Holocaust and drove out the Arabs is preposterous!
Ancient Jerusalem
Then in 70 C.E. (nearly 2000 years ago), it was the Roman Empire's turn to march through ancient Israel and destroy the SECOND Jewish Temple, slaughtering or driving out much of its Jewish population. Many Jews left on their own because conditions for life were made unbearable in many respects... yet thousands upon thousands stayed and rebelled on for centuries in order to once again rebuild a Jewish Nation in this Holy Land.
Over 3250 years, various Peoples, Religions and Empires marched through Jerusalem, Israel's ancient capital. The region was successively ruled by the Hebrews [Jews], Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Maccabeans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Egyptians, the Crusaders, Mamelukes, the Turks (who indifferently governed the backward, neglected territory from the 16th century until the British drove them out during World War I) and then once again by the Jews in 1948. None bothered, nor were they in the least bit inclined, to build a Nation of their own... EXCEPT the Jews!
It must be noted that in 636 C.E., when the Arabs marauders came to the land and uprooted even more of its Jews, they did not form any Arab nation there... and certainly not a "Palestinian" nation. They were simply "Arabs" who, as did others before them, moved into a geo-political area called "Palestine!" And remember this one fact... it was not the Jews who "usurped" (a favorite word from the Arab propagandists) the land from the Arabs. If anything, it was the Arabs in 636 C.E. who overran and stole it from the Jews! "
From: Gita Levi
To: Gita Levy
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:28 AM
Subject: Gush Katif
B"H
Dear Friends,
Upon returning from Kfar Maimon, i am aware of the immediate necessity to get the message out! Please watch and share with friends, colleagues, etc.
Shabbat Shalom,
Gita
PLEASE OPEN LINK:
http://www.machonmeir.org.il/leumi/sakin_balev_english_300.wmv
Archaeology is proving that the pages of the Bible are true and worthy of belief; the writers were inspired by the Lord G-d to record these truths for our edification, teaching and righteousness.
For a very excellent historical on Israel and the Jewish people go to www.deprogramprogram.com and listen to Sha'i ben Tekoa. I consider it the University of DPP. I am an avid listener not a spammer.
You sure are--just like everyone else who thinks that "fundamental rights" exist independently of the Biblical G-d. So where do the come from? That mythical "social contract" that Locke and Jefferson and all those "18th century" rationalists were so fond of pretending existed (even though they knew it didn't)?
I'm afraid that the notion of rights divorced from ultimate meaning is not at all "self-evident," whatever the Declaration of Independence says.
Translation: human rights and dignity don't really exist, so we create a subjective social construct that pretends they do. That being the case, you really have no argument against any dictator or ideology that denies these, since he can create a different social construct.
The idea that the existence of more than one religion makes it impossible to determine which one of them is the authentic one is a cop out. Besides, everyone acknowledges that the Jewish religion "used to be" true. It's only when people start arguing about what "replaced" it that we run into trouble.
Excellent! Thank you...
Reagan80
Ark of the Covenant or Ark of the Deluge?
Covenant, I believe next week.
Nope. Real, up front and personal.
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