Raiders Of The Faux Ark

Archaeology Magazine ^ | 10-10-2007 | Eric Cline

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[blam]

Hands-on Archaeology (in the Pre-college Classroom)

[Ancesthntr]

Biblical archeology is a field in which people of good will, and all religions, can join under the banner of the scientific process.

Try selling that on Temple Mount. The best result is that the Arab Waqf will laugh you off. The worst is that YOU will immediately become an artifact.

[SunkenCiv]

I saw that, and saved it somewhere, probably on the iMac before it died. Have the drive though.

Or when you tell them that "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" was a concept expressed in Hammurabi's Law Code nearly 1,000 years before the Bible?

Speaking of the dating of Hammurabi:

Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology
Immanuel Velikovsky

King Hammurabi is the best known of the early monarchs of ancient times due to his famous law code, found inscribed on stone. This great lawgiver of ancient Babylon belonged to the First BabyIonian Dynasty which came to an end, under circumstances shrouded in mystery, some three or four generations after Hammurabi. For the next several centuries, the land was in the domain of a people known as the Kassites... Until a few decades ago, the reign of Hammurabi was dated to around the year 2100 before the present era. This dating was originally prompted by information contained in an inscription of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, who reigned in the sixth century... In the foundations of a temple at Larsa, Nabonidus found a plaque of King Burnaburiash. This king is known to us from the el-Amarna correspondence in which he participated. On that plaque Burnaburiash wrote that he had rebuilt the temple erected seven hundred years before by King Hammurabi... When Egyptologists found it necessary to reduce the el-Amarna Age by a quarter of a century, the time of Hammurabi was adjusted accordingly... The period of Hammurabi also served as a landmark for the histories of the Middle East from Elam to Syria, and was used as a guide for the chronological tables of other nations... A connecting link was actually found between the First Babylonian Dynasty and the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, the great dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. At Platanos on Crete, a seal of the Hammurabi type was discovered in a tomb together with Middle Minoan pottery of a kind associated at other sites with objects of the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty, more exactly, of its earlier part... At Mari on the central Euphrates... a cuneiform tablet was found which established that Hammurabi of Babylonia and King Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria were contemporaries... Shamshi-Adad I could not have reigned in the twenty-first century since there exist lists of Assyrian kings which enable us to compute regnal dates... By adding to the last year the sum of the regnal years, as given in the list of the kings from Shamshi-Adad to Assur-Nerari, the first year of Shamshi-Adad is calculated to have been -1726 and his last year -1694... The realization that the dating of Hammurabi must be brought forward by three and a half centuries created "a puzzling chronological discrepancy", which could only be resolved by making Hammurabi later than Amenemhet I of the Twelfth Dynasty... If Hammurabi reigned at the time allotted to him by the finds at Mari and Khorsabad -- but according to the finds at Platanos was a contemporary of the Egyptian kings of the early Twelfth Dynasty -- then that dynasty must have started at a time when, according to the accepted chronology, it had already come to its end.

[SunkenCiv]

My favorite screed of this type was the review years ago, I think it was in Archaeology magazine, "a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America", of a book by Barry Fell, in which the reviewer referred to the book as "a candidate for burning".

[SunkenCiv]

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[JmyBryan]

A pantload of hand-wringing by someone who feels his authority is threatened.

As long as amateurs can dig up old stuff, professional old stuff digger-uppers will have to deal with it.

[lilylangtree]

I thought the same thing. You expressed my thoughts quite nicely.

[Teacher317]

ibid

[MHGinTN]

Nabonides son, Belshazzar, was ruling in Babylon the day it fell to the conquerors. Nabonides was away at his religious retreat town.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Somebody get this man a diaper.

[Amalie]

pinging

[ApplegateRanch]

For example, even if the Garden of Eden once were a real place, and even if we knew the general location where it might have been, how would we know when we had found it?

Ye wouldst knoweth it when the cherubim waveth a fiery sword in thy face, and sayeth, "Forsooth, swiftly get thee hence!"

[Continental Soldier]

Interesting to me that collective human memory seems to fail at about 300 years. I have a hunch that about 500 years from now, scholars will be debating whether Washington or Jefferson was America’s first real president and whether John Adams existed at all! And, no doubt, those researchers will be well funded in their search! lol

[blam]

There won’t be any scholars or researchers 500 years from now...civilization will be only a memory.

[blam]

There won’t be any scholars or researchers 500 years from now...civilization will be only a memory.

[Fred Nerks]

What if the Exodus might not have taken place as described in the Bible?

TROUBLED TIMES

In the middle of the second millennium before the present era (approximately 3,500 years ago), the earth underwent one of the greatest catastrophes in its history. A celestial body ... came very close to the earth. The account of this catastrophe can be reconstructed from evidence supplied by a large number of documents. The comet .. touched the earth first with it's gaseous tail. .. Servius wrote, "It was not of a flaming but of a bloody redness."

One of the first visible signs of this encounter was the reddening of the earth's surface by a fine dust of rusty pigment. In sea, lake, and river this pigment gave a bloody coloring to the water. Because of these particles of ferruginous or other soluble pigment, the world turned red.

The Manuscript Quiche of the Mayas tells that in the Western Hemisphere, in the days of a great cataclysm, when the earth quaked and the sun's motion was interrupted, the water in the rivers turned to blood.

Ipuwer, the Egyptian eyewitness to the catastrophe, wrote his lament on papyrus, "The river is blood", and this corresponds with the Book of Exodus 7:20: "All the waters that were in the river were turned to blood".

[maine-iac7]

A pantload of hand-wringing by someone who feels his authority is threatened.

As long as amateurs can dig up old stuff, professional old stuff digger-uppers will have to deal with it.

DITTO

For ex: I've read Jacobovici's "Tomb of Jesus", saw the show, and watched his TV interview with the dunderhead George Wills and 3 'experts' who weren't so much interested in what Jacobovici had to say as they were incensed that anyone other then they - the experts - were allowed to say anything.

There's another book that I set beside "Tomb": "James, the Brother of Jesus" - very informing for anyone who is honest enough to follow the facts of who James really was (and as it is even spelled out , (but glossed over by the churches) - in the New Testament. It is, however, another real inconvenient truth to the powers that be...and I suspicion there will be many more to come what with total access to the Internet. Information can no longer be kept in a lock box.

the Lost Tomb of Jesus is also available in DVD