The Nabonidus Inscription at the site of Sela in modern Jordan rests 300 feet above the ground.
Photo: © Sela Archaeological Project (2018).
The Nabonidus Inscription at the site of Sela in modern Jordan rests 300 feet above the ground.
Photo: © Sela Archaeological Project (2018).
What a location! Most spectacular and remote. I wish that I had visited it, in earlier years, when I could have climbed up.
The Nabonidus Inscription at Sela...
Boy if I had a dollar for every time I’ve thought about the Nabonidus Inscripton at Sela before today...
:)
It NEVER ceases to amaze me, history that is.
I find several thousand years of civilization history as fascinating as the study of the universe.
And sometimes as hard to understand!
Simply remarkable.
Thank you for everything you post....
My Neo-Babylonian is a bit rusty. All I can make out is “______ didn’t _______ himself”.
My first thought as I began to read - where do they get water?
Hard to imagine that a natural water source existed 600 feet above the semi-arid land.
But, even harder to believe they carried water up the stairs every day.
Bfl
Your threads are also REFRESHINGLY free of stress!!
I LOVE the board but wow can it take a toll on you sometimes.
Most interesting thing I read here is that Muhammed was a nabatean. that petra was an ancient site of pilgramage. And was the first pilgramage site for muslims before they moved it south to mecca. that petra and jerusalem were one end of the spice trade from india. that at one time it was full of statues of gods of sorts.
that it was likely this petra that st paul went to before he had his encounter with god on the road to damascus.
my wag is that his time in petra reoriented him eastward. that his encounter with god on the road to damascus was part of his reorientation back westward.
someday I’d like to hear a sermon that compared paul’s encounter with
God on the road to Damascus and Jacobs wrestling match with God as he returned to Israel.
