Posted on 05/15/2023 7:25:35 PM PDT by aimhigh
An early Hebrew inscription from Mount Ebal near Nablus that was found on a folded lead tablet during an excavation in the 1980s recently underwent x-ray tomographic measurements to reveal hidden text.
Epigraphic analysis of the data revealed a formulaic curse written in a proto-alphabetic script likely dating to Late Bronze Age that predates any previously known Hebrew inscription in Israel by at least 200 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Actually, repeat it several times and its pretty powerful.
Maybe its the power of 3’s...maybe a cadence...
Yikes. Sounds pretty serious. 🤨🤔
The inscription was: “You are cursed by the God YHW.”<<<And I also wonder why did he didnt use the Hebrew JHWH instead of YWH.
Maybe the 'typo' invalidated the whole thing. Curses! Foiled again!
There are ‘curses’ and there are ‘spells’.
Curse take and last much longer.........................
So those old Jews DID know how to write...As opposed to what the critics say!!!
I know all this. You don’t have to ‘instruct’ me. It’s very condescending.
I don't mind being considered "condescending."
First, you haven't shown that you "knew it all."
And second, I don't know it all, and am willing to hear again in that which I've already learned, and love to hear it reinforced, while marveling at the patience of my own instructors.
How about you? Do you rejoice in hearing the depth of the gift of it in the original languages? Especially, despite what the modern scholastic regime insist, GOD's Name is not "Yaweh."
It is "Yeh-Hoe-Va(H)"; or so says Dr. Thomas Strouse. the renowned student and thus teacher of Hebrew linguistics. Were you aware of that vein of thought? That Genesis in the second and third chapters strongly indicate that "Hebrew" was the first earthly spoken and written language, that of GOD (Jehovah Elohim) communicating with the first human Adam? And written down precisely from the LORD by His obedient student-servant Moses?
That puts the language of the Torah further back than that of Joshua, of which age the leaden scrap discussed here indicates.
Incidentally, it was back in the 1980s that the diggings to be pursued by Adam Zertal were discussed in the then popular Biblical Archaelogical magazine, to which I subscribed. In it was announced that Zertal was inviting novices to come and dig with him at Mt. Ebal for a short trip and a special price. From it I had maderplans to send my Dad (a retired Methodist minister) and my son (an engineering student at IIT) for that tour, in which we were all quite interested.
I myself could not go with them, being intensely engaged in developing materials for the microelectric industry, products being marketed by my global corporation.
But I suppose now, that you know all that, too, eh?
(in a FRiendly sense . . . )
Since the languages in the region were related and were similar in their earlier stages, isn’t that a judgement call?
In later years, yes. In earlier eras, no. The change happened happened, I think, around the 7th century BC and this finding is from about the 13th century BC. In any case, Hebrew and the other languages in the region were still developing at this point. The Aramaic era came later.
Yeah they called out to each other from two small mountains. Blessings from one mountain were called out if they followed the law. Curses were called out from the other mountain if they did not follow the law.
Pretty much the situation we have today.
I have read that there is some dissention as to when the Moses left Egypt. I think the departure dates are either said to be somewhere in the 1200’s bc/bce or 1400 bc/bce.
Does this settle that debate. Or was it previously settled?
Time after time they have shown that many of the theories proposed by various "scholars" meant to diminish one's reliance on the Bible stories as they were written, have been disproven by the factual results of careful qualified investigators. According to the best confirmed evidence, the Exodus took place 1500 - 1400 B. C.
And unless Moses was a con man and liar, he is the fellow, educated as a prince of Egypt, who wrote the Pentateuch, much of the history in Genesis from the lips of Jehovah Elohim.
But what one really wants to see is at least some script unarguably written at that time and preserved for our observation.
Ahh, Western Society.
The “Western Society” course was four credit hours per semester for two years.
1958-1960 AD.
No longer offered at my college/Alma Mater. Very sad!
Sad, because we learned the basics of Western thought, Religion, Philosophy,History that was, mainly, Greek and Roman influenced.
One of our cheers was, “Yahwey, Yahweh, all the way with Yahweh!”
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