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To: SJackson
She posited that the hoard of gold and silver objects, found beneath the floor of a Byzantine-era house meters from the massive walls of the Temple Mount, was brought by Jews who returned to the city after the Persians conquered it from the Byzantines in 614 CE.

Why would they hide it under the floor, then?

7 posted on 09/09/2013 5:59:08 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

I agree..the statement doesn’t make sense.

One would think it was hidden during the initial attack of the Persians.


8 posted on 09/09/2013 6:03:37 AM PDT by EBH (America is not judge, jury, and executioner for the world.)
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To: skeeter

“Why would they hide it under the floor, then?”

I agree. The Jews sided with the Persians against the Byzantines. I would think they hid it after the Byzantines recaptured the city, or after the Muslims conquered it a few years later.


24 posted on 09/09/2013 10:09:25 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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