Biblical Archaeology - Silent Witness

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The curse tablet


Zertal excavated an altar at the site, which dated to the 13th century BC, the time of Joshua as described in the Bible.​
“At that time Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal” (Josh. 8:30).
The lead amulet is roughly 2 centimeters by 2 centimeters (slightly larger than 3/4" by 3/4") in size and was folded in half, hiding the inscription.​
The writing on the amulet predates any Hebrew etching found to date by at least 200 years, according to the team. Stripling said that if the discovery is dated accurately, then it would mean that Jews entered Israel earlier than most current estimates, speculating that the amulet might have been placed at the site during the original covenant ceremony when Joshua led the Jews across the Jordan and into the land of Israel.​
As it contains the name of the Jewish God, it offers what Stripling called “irrefutable proof” of the Jewish connection to the land as told in the Bible.​


It's so tiny!
 
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what do you think of the whole Mt Sinai in saudi arabia stuff?

in the quran and hadith, mt sinai is mentioned as 'AT-TUR' 'THE MOUNTAIN'.
back then, the jews knew where it was..and it was in that area (not the sinai peninsula). when people adopted islam, they would visit the place with jewish tour guides (as in the jews were the ones with the knowledge of the place and the ones taking care of it).

YET...
it is the ashkenazi jews who've changed the entire 40 years in the wilderness story.


seriously mate, ive told you many times over there they are not true jews and are clearly the synagogue of satan that's hiding the blood of Gomer into the jewish bloodline, effectively wearing the cloth of judaism but butchering every part of judaism.
so if it's a 'land without borders, walls' they're building walls.
'peaceful and unsuspecting people' and they've given us mossad, high tech military weapons etc.

i dont want to be antagonistic...but it comes the more ive seen them butcher it all.

now on that note...another topic.
i remember reading up on the location of KADESH AND KADESH BARNEA

Basically, kADESH BARNEA where aaron and miriam were buried, is petra.
yet it's also the place where the israelites lived for 38 yrs and the torah also says it was in the wilderness of PARAN.

you know that this is where the whole 'the real mecca was petra' claim comes from?
yet early islam acknowledged petra for what it was...and yet it had no connection with the ishmael story.

basically this leads to a dual theory, that kadesh and kadesh barnea are mixed up. one is in 'the wilderness of ZIN' whilst the other is in the 'wilderness of paran'

Numbers 20:1
Water From the Rock
In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.


that would be petra.


Numbers 13:26
26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.


??
the same desert of paran, where ishmael was sent to? where the Water sprang up from the earth as a miracle?
the only place like that is Mecca...
yet mecca is a long way from the land of canaan.

2800km round trip...1740 miles.
average speed of 3.3mph travelm walking from 12-14 hours a day...it's def doable.

25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.



im prob going to look into it a bit more...do more research.
ive not really thought much about 'israelites in MECCA FOR 38 YRS'
but then you have the whole story of works vs faith where paul compared the jews under the law, to HAGAR and ISHMAEL..
 
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THE GALLIO INSCRIPTION: When Paul was in Corinth a group of Jews became upset with him and brought him before Gallio, the Proconsul (Acts 18:13). In 1905 French archaeologist, Emile Bourguet was part of a team which uncovered four fragments of a Greek inscription in Delphi, Greece which contained the name of the exact ruler - confirming Luke's accuracy & pinpointing the date of Paul's travels.

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Early Christian Art

Painting of Jesus healing the paralytic from the wall of the baptistery in the Dura-Europa church, circa 232 A.D. It is considered one of the earliest visual depictions of Jesus.


Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome - An underground Christian cemetery used from the first through the fifth centuries AD
 

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THE LARGEST PIECE OF THE TRUE CROSS OF CHRIST—HOLY MONASTERY OF XEROPOTAMOU, MOUNT ATHOS



Mt Athos monastery
 

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EVIDENCE FOR EARLY AUTHORSHIP OF "THE BOOKS OF MOSES"

This small tablet of limestone helps to confirm the early authorship of the first five books of the Bible. It shows the Biblical minimalists to be wrong in their assertion that they were written by scribes some thousand years after the events they describe.

How does it do this? It does it by being the last piece of archaeological evidence to use the simple word "yera". "Yera" means "month", and after this it is replaced by "chodesh". This words appears for the last time in the archaeological record in this tablet, dated to 950BC.

1Kings 6:1 uses the term "month of Ziv", instead of "Iyar". "Ziv" was the ancient, pre-Babylonian name for the seventh month and this agrees with 1Kings having been written at, or near the time of the Temple's early 10th-century BC construction. If it had been written after the Babylonian exile (537 BCE), and was based on an oral tradition, it would have utilised Babylonian name for the months.

In Egypt, Jews used "yera" instead of "chodesh". If the Books of Moses had been compiled by scribes hundreds of years after the events those books describe, instead of the 16th century BC, those scribes wouldn't have used "yera."
 

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EVIDENCE FOR EARLY AUTHORSHIP OF "THE BOOKS OF MOSES"

This small tablet of limestone helps to confirm the early authorship of the first five books of the Bible. It shows the Biblical minimalists to be wrong in their assertion that they were written by scribes some thousand years after the events they describe.

How does it do this? It does it by being the last piece of archaeological evidence to use the simple word "yera". "Yera" means "month", and after this it is replaced by "chodesh". This words appears for the last time in the archaeological record in this tablet, dated to 950BC.

1Kings 6:1 uses the term "month of Ziv", instead of "Iyar". "Ziv" was the ancient, pre-Babylonian name for the seventh month and this agrees with 1Kings having been written at, or near the time of the Temple's early 10th-century BC construction. If it had been written after the Babylonian exile (537 BCE), and was based on an oral tradition, it would have utilised Babylonian name for the months.

In Egypt, Jews used "yera" instead of "chodesh". If the Books of Moses had been compiled by scribes hundreds of years after the events those books describe, instead of the 16th century BC, those scribes wouldn't have used "yera."
Imagine having to carve into stone to write these! Also having to sort through your stacks of rocks for what you need.
 

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Biblical stories of military campaigns against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah 3,000 years ago are proven with a new tool that reconstructs the intensity of Earth's magnetic field recorded in burnt remains

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com17:27, 25 Oct 2022 , updated 17:27, 25 Oct 2022

  • Archaeologists have proven the Biblical accounts of military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
  • This was done by analyzing burnt mud stones found at 21 different sites
  • The team also used ancient inscriptions found at the sites and text from the Old Testament
  • The mud stones contain magnetic minerals that act like the needle of a compass when heated or burned, which shows that the city at the site was burned down
 

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Biblical stories of military campaigns against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah 3,000 years ago are proven with a new tool that reconstructs the intensity of Earth's magnetic field recorded in burnt remains

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com17:27, 25 Oct 2022 , updated 17:27, 25 Oct 2022

  • Archaeologists have proven the Biblical accounts of military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
  • This was done by analyzing burnt mud stones found at 21 different sites
  • The team also used ancient inscriptions found at the sites and text from the Old Testament
  • The mud stones contain magnetic minerals that act like the needle of a compass when heated or burned, which shows that the city at the site was burned down
I think this clip is same story.

 

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Roman historian and senator Tacitus (c. AD 56 – c. 120) wrote about Pontius Pilate... so one cannot doubt the historical existence of this biblical figure... unless perhaps one is an esceptic? whatever that is.



"But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind." - Annals book 15 chapter 44
 

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Until the early 19th century, skeptics denied the existence of Belshazzar, infamous for receiving the original "writing on the wall" in Daniel 5.

They say he was made up by someone who knew nothing of Babylonian history, since Nabonidus was recorded as the last king of Babylon.

This changed in 1854 with the discovery of the first of many artefacts corroberating Belshazzar's existence, as well as explanations little details like why he could only offer Daniel the third highest position in the kingdom.

Today, no expert questions that this crown prince and co-regent existed. And while the skeptical types argue of alleged contradictions between the Biblical record and extrabiblical sources, these claims are not without solutions.

At the end of the day, these discoveries once again vindicate the record of the Bible. When no other known record spoke of Belshazzar, the Word of God spelled it out, and archaeology eventually caught up.

 

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“This newly discovered stela from Ismailia, dedicated to the biblical pharaoh Hophra, is an important piece of extrabiblical evidence that corroborates his existence. According to Greek and Egyptian sources, Hophra was killed by the hand of his enemies, yet not by the Babylonian king. These extra-biblical sources confirm the truth of God’s Word to Jeremiah.”

 

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"Where Trumpets Sang" | In the days of the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem, the priests ("cohanim" in Hebrew) would blow silver trumpets from a corner of the Mount Moriah plateau at the start of every festival, including Shabbat. Incredibly, the stone railing, inscribed with the words (translated from Hebrew) "The place of trumpeting," was found by archeologists beneath a pile of rubble - the remains of the 2nd Temple after it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. The original artifact currently sits in the Israel Museum, while an exact replica resides at the place where it was found near the Western Wall.
-Davidson Center, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel

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