Posted on 12/17/2015 6:44:34 AM PST by Biggirl
Israeli archaeologists discovered a 1,500-year-old slab of marble with Hebrew inscriptions (pictured) by Kursi near the Sea of Galilee in Israelâs north, reaffirming a Jewish presence at what Christians believe to be the location of Jesusâ âMiracle of the Swine.â
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Buy your religious action figures here! (batteries not included)
Just look at the Shroud of Turin. Every single one of the rules for testing the fabric was violated and it had to be deliberate. Add that to the fact that the sample was taken from an area that was a known repair rather than nearby, obviously original, fabric, and you can see just how much you can trust the dates assigned to things.
Wait a decade or two and see what the date on this item is then. Someone will have done a Masters Thesis on how wrong the 1,500 year date is. They'll either insist that it's older or that someone bought it when the last W. T. Grant store went under.
IMHo, if it's in Hebrew it's at least from the time of Constantine, maybe older.
Thanks dware.
Now that’s funny
“Hebrew was a liturgical language...”
Could Hebrew have been used to mark something Holy? And might have been a place of worship? Of course then I would think it would be in whatever language used by the Christians in the area.
Or a liter of liquid marble for your 3D printer?
Still really good with a little horseradish on crackers.
it’s the marble liquid that gets ya- the printers are dirt cheap- but the marble liquid- Jimminy!
LOL! You win the internet today!
“LOL! You win the internet today!”
You can do that???
:-)
Story is misleading. I had to read it twice.
Apparently this 1500 year old slab was found at a site near where, according to an even older oral tradition, Jesus drove the demons into the swine.
The slab itself doesn’t actually say anything about Jesus.
It just confirms that yes, Jews had lived around there for awhile.
Ergo, we might conclude that ONE of those Jews might have been Jesus, so maybe the long-told story of the swine did actually happen there !
Additionally, the slab mentions a Mary, or Miriam-—common name.
Again, by simply name-dropping, the story’s author is manipulating the reader to assume, incorrectly, that it refers to Jesus’ mother.
The spoken language of the time was Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. But Hebrew would have still have been a known literary language.
I know.
I’m thinking that Hebrew at the time was more for the intellect and Aramaic being the common language?
At the time Greek was the intellectual language and Hebrew more of a dead language, much like we regard Latin today.
The large Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt had translated the OT into Greek (what we call the Septuagint) because Greek is what everyone was using.
Aramaic is thought to have been the everyday language.
We had a guide through Ireland. He father was Irish and his mother was Chinese. WEIRD lookin' cat. Two Irish women commented on him and hadn't a CLUE that he understood them.
He answered them in Gaelic and they almost fainted from shock. :o)
Ya never know.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.