Posted on 07/11/2007 9:39:39 AM PDT by Sopater
LONDON — The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum's great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years.
But Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna, let out such a cry last Thursday. He had made what has been called the most important find in biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the historical books of the Bible are based on fact.
Searching for Babylonian financial accounts among the tablets, Jursa suddenly came across a name that he half remembered — Nabusharrussu-ukin, described there in 2,500-year-old writing as "the chief eunuch" of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.
Mr. Jursa, an Assyriologist, checked Chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, and he found, spelled differently, the same name — Nebo-Sarsekim. Nebo-Sarsekim, according to Jeremiah, was Nebuchadnezzar II's "chief officer" and was with him at the siege of Jerusalem in the year 587 before the common era, when the Babylonians overran the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
My mom told me when I was a kid, that science would prove the existence of God as they searched to prove He did not exist.
Now, though I believe in The Exodus, would that some evidence would demonstrate it, beyond some Egyptian lawyer suing for the return of Hebrew taken plunder.
...more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Mr. Jursa, an Assyriologist, checked Chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, and he found, spelled differently, the same name — Nebo-Sarsekim. Nebo-Sarsekim, according to Jeremiah, was Nebuchadnezzar II's "chief officer" and was with him at the siege of Jerusalem in the year 587 before the common era, when the Babylonians overran the city.
Time for me to check out Jeremiah 39 in my Artscroll TANACH.
Na-bush-arrussu-ukin, hmmm...
And that it would never get reported in the MSM?
You mean a wife that does everything and you get to sit at the city gates bragging about what a great gal she is ;-).
That’s the one!
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***...an Assyriologist...***
It’s good work if you can get it.
A serious assyriologist.
I'd hate to be him when we're using nick names.
Liberalism creeps into everything.
KRAMER: Yeah, or it could be a proctologist.
JERRY: Yeah. Proctologist.
GEORGE: Come on! No doctor would put that on his car.
KRAMER: Have you ever *met* a proctologist? Well, they usually have a very good sense of humor. You meet a proctologist at a party, don’t walk away. *Plant* yourself there, because you will hear the funniest stories you’ve ever heard. See, no one wants to admit to them that they *stuck* something up there. Never! It’s always an accident. Every proctologist story ends in the same way: “It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one.”
LOLOL. I’m going to use that as my cellphone’s screensaver — just as soon as I learn how to do that.
Basakwards. have they it. Let us assume, as we did until the 18th Century, that the Bible was the historical record and the other evidence more or less fragmentary. The Egyptologists claims to have complete knowledge of ther 2nd Millenia when they have is a record no more complete than the history of England between the year 400 and 1066.
What’s always interesting in my mind is that “scholars” normally use writings to try to verify history. In this case they used financial records. Yet, many non-Christians don’t look upon the Bible as providing at least some historical information. I saw a program on the Discovery Channel about verifying history with scripture and instead of saying, “Hmmmm...this is interesting and there is some evidence of that.”; instead the tone was, “This was impossible because of blah, blah, blah.” If anything this underscores man’s hardness of heart not to look at scriptures even remotely objectively.
For us the ultimate answer is that the text winds up being validated in such an obscure way it could never be considered a “fix.” Who cares if Quirinius was governor of Syria? Would anyone ever have heard of Pilate if not for the birth of Christ? As it turns out, over and over again God used real people to provide bit parts in the redemptive drama.
Sola Deo Gloria!
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