Posted on 05/23/2012 5:57:37 PM PDT by SJackson
JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.
The tiny clay seal's existence and age provide vivid evidence that Bethlehem was not just the name of a fabled biblical town, but also a bustling place of trade linked to the nearby city of Jerusalem, archaeologists said.
Eli Shukron, the authority's director of excavations, said the find was significant because it is the first time the name "Bethlehem" appears outside of a biblical text from that period.
Shukron said the seal, 1.5 centimeters (0.59 inches) in diameter, dates back to the period of the first biblical Jewish Temple, between the eighth and seventh century B.C., at a time when Jewish kings reigned over the ancient kingdom of Judah and 700 years before Jesus was born.
The seal was written in ancient Hebrew script from the same time. Pottery found nearby also dated back to the same period, he said.
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A few weeks ago, Hebrew seal bearing the name 'Matanyahu' uncovered in Jerusalem
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Reminds me of how the Learned Experts used to say that Assyria didn't really exist and it was only a Biblical fable. Then, they unearthed some bits of junk and suddenly, "looky there Marge, there really was an Assyria!"
Interesting! Thanks for posting...
What did the rest of it say?
“EAT AT JOSEPH’S”
No it says:
“Eat at Herod’s”
NO VACANCY
Any mention of the seventh seal?
It is interesting what you find when you look.
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Another amazing discovery! I can’t keep up with you guys ;•}
Imagine trying to keep up when the GGG pingmeister pings you twice to each one! [blush]
There were never any Learned Experts who denied that Assyria existed; the locations of the major Assyrian sites were unknown, and became known because people looked for them. The site of Akkad/Agade, Sargon the Great’s capital of Assyria during the eponymous Akkadian period, remains unknown, although in surviving texts it was new-built somewhere near Kish, where Sargon spent his early years.
The Assyrian Empire was destroyed late in the 7th c BC by an alliance of Medes, Scythians, and Babylonians. Herodotus (for example) discusses the Assyrians as if they were still a going concern, perhaps confusing the Assyrians with the Babylonians. By his time, neither one was a going concern, but both are Semitic peoples, and they hadn’t ceased to exist as ethnic groups. The ancient Greeks sometimes referred to the Persians as Medes, but that’s not accurate; the Greeks called one or more of the New Kingdom pharaohs Sesostris, but Sesostris was actually the name of some pharaohs during the Old Kingdom. Ramses II “the Great”, interestingly enough, had a monumental statue of one of those Old Kingdom Sesostrises recarved a bit into his own image.
The name “Hittites” was only known in the Bible, and when the site of Hattusas was found, the name was lifted from the Bible, regardless of the facts that 1) it isn’t accurate and 2) the invention of the so-called “Forgotten Empire” actually props up the conventional pseudochronology of the Middle East, which itself is hung on the Egyptian chronology, itself an invention with only a trivial connection to the various fragmentary lists of pharaohs.
Neither do Troy nor Atlantis...
Can you expand on your Hittites 1 & 2 or point me in the right direction or both? Thanks.
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