Posted on 05/24/2010 12:05:24 PM PDT by markomalley
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed an ancient incense altar that is believed to be pagan at the future site of a hotly contested emergency room that has been fraught with controversy over haredi claims that graves found there are Jewish.
The relic was found while the site was being excavated in preparation for the construction of the ER for Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
The archaeologists stated that the find is conclusive proof that the ancient graves unearthed at the site are not Jewish, but pagan. The future location of the ER has been a source of uproar for ultra-Orthodox Jewish protestors who claim that the bones found there, thought to date back 1,400 years, are Jewish. If that were the case, the removal of the remains would be considered a sacrilegious act. Protests began after officials began the process of removing the graves. News of the construction led to riots in haredi areas of Jerusalem.
The Israel Antiquities Authority reported on Thursday that the 2,000 year old incense altar, when taken with the pagan characteristics of the graves, proves once and for all that the site is undoubtedly of pagan origin.
Pagan Ping!
Phisitine?
A bull............hmmmm.................think BBQ...........
This looks like an exact replica of what is now in the Obama Whitehouse.
They worshipped Dagon.........
Wasn’t Ashkelon a Philistine City in Holy Bible times? Any Biblical Historians out there?
Think Wall Street.
“at the future site of a hotly contested emergency room that has been fraught with controversy”
Oof - that’s some pretty twisted sentence structure right there...it could be:
1. The site of a future hotly contested emergency room (if so, how do dey know?)
2. An ER fraught with controversy
3. A site fraught with controversy
Just sayin’, seems like that journalism degree should have required some actual grammar...
Colonel, USAFR
Samson destroying the temple of Dagon.
Enlil-inspired.
philistines?
Isn’t that how the movie “The Exorcist” begins?
Looks Roman.
It was one of five Philistine city-states (along with Gath, Gaza, Ekron and Ashdod).
In Biblical history is is said to be the place where Delilah cut Samson’s hair to sap his strength - Judges 13-16
Ashkelon is mentioned in Judges 14, where Samson kills 30 men in revenge for the Philistines having given his (Philistine) wife to another man.
Heck of a price for a haircut!................
I don’t know the origin of that print, but from the look and style I would guess it’s a print from an early Bible.
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