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Researchers Use X-Ray on Item Found at Biblical Site, Make Incredible Discovery That Could Connect to 1 Specific Verse
www.westernjournal.com ^ | May 16, 2023 at 4:10am | Richard Moorhead

Posted on 05/16/2023 4:41:52 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

On a site in modern-day Israel, academics believe they’ve found the oldest Hebrew text ever discovered, with an apparent link to a scene described in the Old Testament.

The text is described as a “curse tablet” — with an inscription one might expect to find in some of the darker passages of the Old Testament.

“You are cursed by the God YHW,” the text reads — using the sacred Hebrew name for God.

“You will die cursed—cursed you will surely die. Cursed you are by yhw-cursed,” the tablet reads, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.

*** Reference: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/scholars-expound-on-mount-ebal-curse-tablet-with-oldest-hebrew-text/2023/05/12/

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; catastrophism; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hebrew; israel; mountebal; pseudochronology
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
"...Scholars date tiny ‘curse tablet,’ found at Mt. Ebal, to 1200 BC – which would prove Israelites were literate when they entered Holy Land....

Exsqueeze me but the accepted timeframe for Moses receiving the 10 Commandments is the 13th Century BC, and is that not also "proof" that he Israelites were literate, either that or "the God YHW" mistook them for being so.

21 posted on 05/16/2023 7:46:04 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Thanks UMCRevMom@aol.com, already posted (Ancient tablet found on Mount Ebal predates known Hebrew inscriptions (Israel) [05/15/2023]).
Also one of *those* topics.



22 posted on 05/16/2023 7:47:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Paal Gulli

Having some priests be literate does not mean that Israelites in general were literate.


23 posted on 05/16/2023 7:51:59 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I like his theory. Have some disagreements with it, but I would trust him more than myself.

Great movie.


24 posted on 05/16/2023 7:56:45 AM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: SauronOfMordor
"Having some priests be literate does not mean that Israelites in general were literate.

1. Your post interjected the term "in general" into the discussion. It is neither implied nor inferred by the article.

2. Neither does a single tablet containing a curse mean that the Israelites "in general" were literate. Nor is it any any indication that the curse was not written by a priest, who might have been one of the few who were literate.

25 posted on 05/16/2023 9:26:23 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping!


26 posted on 05/16/2023 11:38:02 AM PDT by TXnMA (Texas Republican grassroots are "DEFIANT"! [Take THAT, RINOCornyn!] )
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To: TXnMA

Thanks!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4153528/posts?page=22#22


27 posted on 05/16/2023 5:12:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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