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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/

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; catastrophism; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hebrew; israel; mountebal; pseudochronology
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1 posted on 05/16/2023 4:41:52 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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On the right is the symbol for peace.


2 posted on 05/16/2023 4:45:28 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed ...

Tracing Hebrew back and back into the earliest history of man.


3 posted on 05/16/2023 4:58:50 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Tempestuous teapottiest


4 posted on 05/16/2023 5:00:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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X-rays that read through lead. Interesting.


5 posted on 05/16/2023 5:08:43 AM PDT by DocRock
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Awful lot of cursing back then.


6 posted on 05/16/2023 5:08:53 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Grudges as old as...


7 posted on 05/16/2023 5:10:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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bkmk


8 posted on 05/16/2023 5:19:08 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
“Once a religious functionary inscribed the text and sealed the tablet, the incantation became binding. It could not be erased since the tablet would crumble and the curse would disappear, if opened. Neither humans nor supernatural beings could cancel or negate an occult message since they could not see it. However, this has changed in recent decades as scientists have gained the ability to see the interior of lead tablets using X-ray computed tomography and advanced data processing,” the paper states.

I thought X-rays couldn't penetrate lead...

9 posted on 05/16/2023 5:19:39 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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I’ve been interested in the results of this discovery.

What it tends to support is an earlier time for the Exodus, Middle Bronze age, and supports the conclusion that a form of ancient Hebrew existed at the time of Moses. Some Biblical critics doubt Moses could have written the pentateuch on the grounds that Hebrew wasn’t a written language then.

This would rebut some of that criticism.


10 posted on 05/16/2023 5:23:47 AM PDT by Bayard
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Don’t envy the man with x-ray eyes.


11 posted on 05/16/2023 5:26:40 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The Patterns of Evidence movies have been eye opening for sure. #GeekOut


12 posted on 05/16/2023 5:32:43 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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Yeah they didn’t use x-rays, says something about the reporter or headline writer.


13 posted on 05/16/2023 5:33:14 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Bayard
Don’t envy the man with x-ray eyes.

Heh. Great movie


14 posted on 05/16/2023 5:39:24 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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“If thine eyes offend thee...”


15 posted on 05/16/2023 5:53:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: texas booster; bert; DocRock; Libloather; 9YearLurker; COBOL2Java; Varda; ptsal; Bayard

Further References:

1- Scholars Expound on Mount Ebal Curse Tablet with Oldest Hebrew Text
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/scholars-expound-on-mount-ebal-curse-tablet-with-oldest-hebrew-text/2023/05/12/

2- Archaeologist Claims to Find Oldest Hebrew Text in Israel
https://www.touchpointisrael.com/2022/04/05/archaeologist-claims-to-find-oldest-hebrew-text-in/

3- Why does a 3,300 year-old piece of rock from Mount Ebal matter?
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-does-a-3300-year-old-piece-of-rock-from-mount-ebal-matter/


16 posted on 05/16/2023 5:57:11 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion )
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Here’s another one:
https://biblearchaeology.org/current-events-list/4896-abr-researchers-discover-the-oldest-known-proto-hebrew-inscription-ever-found


17 posted on 05/16/2023 6:05:48 AM PDT by Varda
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To: momincombatboots

“The Patterns of Evidence movies”

Thank you for so much for commenting on the “Patterns of Evidence” documentary film series through the Bible by investigating evidence of its historical credibility, the accuracy of its transmission through the centuries, and how it impacts the modern world.

I am just beginning to view on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patterns+of+evidence+

A new May 14, 2023 is release: “Patterns of Evidence: New Documentary Explores Location of Mt. Sinai, God’s Holy Mountain”

Again, thank you :)


18 posted on 05/16/2023 6:07:25 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion )
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19 posted on 05/16/2023 6:07:32 AM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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Someone wanted somebody else really, really, really cursed - wow.


20 posted on 05/16/2023 6:50:08 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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