Posted on 05/06/2009 5:34:35 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Two Palestinians were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing a rare antique Hebrew scroll and attempting to sell it for millions of dollars.
Police apprehended the two suspects in Jerusalem after an intelligence tip allowed police forces to trace their tracks and intercept the document's sale.
The rare historical document, handwritten in Hebrew on papyrus paper and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is a bill surrendering property rights. The document was written by a widow named Miryam Ben Yaakov, and hails from a period in which the people of Israel were exiled from the area and very few Jews remained.
The scroll also, unusually, clearly indicates a precise date on the first line: "Year 4 to the destruction of Israel". The intention is, presumably, either to the year 74 C.E. (the year when the Second Temple was destroyed during the Great Revolt) or to 138 A.D. (the annihilation of the Jewish settlement following the Bar Kokhva revolt).
The Israel Antiquities Authority said on Wednesday that the scroll was an "exceptional archeological document, of the like but a few exist," adding that similar scrolls had been sold worldwide for sums as high as $5-$10 million.
The IAA estimated that the seized document was indeed authentic, but the final verdict will arrive only after it returns from a series of laboratory tests.
The document was apparently stolen from a cave within Israel's borders where antiquities raiders were digging.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Wonder what the result would have been if they stole a Muslim antique
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Morons, millions. Don't they know they can get billions from the west if the say the right things. And unless the scroll spoke about flying horses and moon rocks, tens of millions from other sources to burn it.
A 2,000 year old Hebrew scroll from a land the Hebrews didn't inhabit. Strange.
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"Miriam, son of Jacob"? Huh?
No scrolls for you, Paleo! No shekels! Go back to your moon gawd
Miryam ben Yaakov
Sounds suspicious to me. :>)
The only thing I can think of...
Since this is about the time of a destruction, then could it be a Mosaic Law convention for the case of a surviving daughter of a deceased man with no remaining sons?
It must be a fake. Everyone knows all the Jews were in Brooklyn 2000 years ago.
Good catch. It probably says "Bat" (daughter of) rather than "Ben."
Goys writing about Hebrew inscription. Feh.
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This has to be a fake. Doesn’t everyone know that Jews didn’t live in Israel in history. The historic land of the Jews is a modern myth.
Ask any radical Palestinian.
What a messed up article.
A scroll that’s more than 2000 years old that dates from the 1st or 2nd century AD?
What year is it again?
If we're being technical, it's goyim.
Oh, my gosh!
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