"This singular find joins the list of countless archeological discoveries in the City of David - the historic site of Biblical Jerusalem - affirming Jerusalem's Biblical heritage."
"It similarly serves as yet another affirmation of the thousands-of-year-old bond rooting the Jewish people in Jerusalem - not simply as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fact," he said.
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So... Hebrew script 2,700 years ago... And these Palestinian squatters arrived when? They didn’t even have a religion until about 1,400 years ago... Before that, they were just heathens.
Curiously, NOTHING has EVER turned up proving the existence of the State of Palace Swine… stupid voice to text… Palestine.
Everywhere they dig in the middle east they mostly turn up evidence of Israel.
Funny how that works.
I didn’t know seals lived that long.
So, let me get this straight, the inscription Does Not read “from the river to the sea”?
"The figure of a winged man in a distinct Neo-Assyrian style is unique and very rare in the glyphic styles of the late First Temple period," he added. "The influence of the Assyrian Empire, which had conquered the entire region, is clearly evident here."
2700 years puts it at the time of the prophet Isaiah, during the reigns of "Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah". Assyria is the big dog at this time, throwing its weight around the ancient near east. This is the time frame of the Syro-Ephriamite Crisis. This is the time frame when the northern kingdom gets finally smashed and taken into exile by the Assyrians. A few years later we have the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem.
We know, the Bible explicitly tells us, that King Ahaz met with the Assyrian king in Damascus, and sent back a model of an altar he saw there, to be copied and put in the LORD's temple.
There's also a couple major land routes to Egypt, down by the coast and east of the Jordan.
It should not be surprising at all to find Assyrian artifacts and Assyrian influence among the Israelites at the time.
(I'm reviewing the period right now, trying to understand some of what I'm seeing in the book of Isaiah.)
Baruch touted the piece as evidence of reading and writing abilities on a wider scale than previously thought during the period."Contrary to what may be commonly thought, it seems that literacy in this period was not the realm only of society’s elite," Baruch argued. "People knew how to read and write – at least at the basic level, for the needs of commerce."
I did find this interesting. I've always been a bit skeptical of the usual claim that reading was something only a tiny minority knew how to do in pre-modern times.
Why is it called a ring? It looks like a disc to me.