Temple Mount Bridge Dig Yielding Multiple Historical Finds [Jews and Christians once there]

Arutz Sheva ^ | 2-13-07 | Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

[SJackson]

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The cause of the rioting.

[netmilsmom]

Which of course is the reason why the Muslims don't want it done, correct?

[netmilsmom]

Check this out.....

"Digs initiated by the Antiquities Authority at the site have already turned up ruins from the Muslim Umayyad (7th-8th centuries CE), Christian Byzantine (3rd-7th centuries CE), and Jewish Herodian (1st Century BCE – 1st Century CE) periods."

[TheBattman]

Of course Jews and Christians were there before - they were there centuries before the Satan-based pseudo-religion called Islam came through and built their own temple to the Devil on the EXACT location of the Jewish Temple...

[CCCnative]

It's kinda strange. To those with their "heads screwed on straight" there is no question that the Jews were there long before the Muslims. What did Titus of Rome do in 70 AD? The point I believe is that existing proof is never good enough and never will be for the Muslims. They act like they own the place. They are keeping it through intimidation.

[Publius6961]

Chairman of the National Union-NRP Knesset faction, Uri Ariel, commented to the press that "the Arabs apparently fear that Jewish remains will be found in the excavations, which will strengthen, in the eyes of Israeli society and in the eyes of the world, the Jewish people's connection to its land."

I deem it remarkable that any Jew today, 2007, living in Israel, his country and his homeland, still harbors enough doubts about his legacy even to entertain the notion that "validation" is necessary...

[Verginius Rufus]

Two temples? What about the temple rebuilt by Ezra? Is Herod's temple considered just a remodeling and enlargement of Ezra's?

[Alouette]

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[SevenofNine]

That drive Muslums nut ROFL

[Alouette]

check this out

[Alouette]

(7th-8th centuries CE), Christian Byzantine (3rd-7th centuries CE), and Jewish Herodian (1st Century BCE – 1st Century CE) periods.

Bracing for the usual crowd who freak out over the use of CE and BCE.

[SJackson]

That could be worth 20 or 30 posts.

[Buggman]

Is Herod's temple considered just a remodeling and enlargement of Ezra's?

Yes.

[rogator]

"Bracing for the usual crowd who freak out over the use of CE and BCE."

What's to freak out about?
CE and BCE are simply the athiest/liberal/non-traditional way to say AD and BC.
Each publisher can call it like he sees it.

[Paved Paradise]

That's what I was thinking also. They've (the Muslims)always been jealous; that's all.

[Paved Paradise]

I still don't get why they prefer this anyway because I actually refer to it as Christian Era and Before Christian Era (he he). Christ gets in either way; they (the secularists) just don't realize it.

[jackv]

well, well, well...

[wodinoneeye]

No doubt some Muslims somewhere will simply claim that the Christian and Jewish 'evidence' was planted as part of a well orchestrated effort to 'defile and destroy' the Muslim 'sacred/holy' site.

No doubt such claims will be echoed a magnitude louder than the original story by the divisive leftard media.

[wodinoneeye]

"(7th-8th centuries CE), Christian Byzantine (3rd-7th centuries CE), and Jewish Herodian (1st Century BCE – 1st Century CE) periods.
Bracing for the usual crowd who freak out over the use of CE and BCE."


Just turn it around and insist the CE stands for 'Christian Era' (and always use AD/BC anytime you wish as well).