Okay! If they didn't dig down 26 feet from the top of the wall to the very bottom... 
how the heck did they figure it was 25 feet high?
Posted on 09/02/2009 9:11:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
JERUSALEM – Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.
The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient Canaanites from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's only water source and vulnerable to marauders.
The discovery marks the first time archaeologists have found such massive construction from before the time of Herod, the ruler behind numerous monumental projects in the city 2,000 years ago, and shows that Jerusalem of the Middle Bronze Age had a powerful population capable of complex building projects, said Ronny Reich, director of the excavation and an archaeology professor at the University of Haifa.
The wall dates to the 17th century B.C., when Jerusalem was a small, fortified enclave controlled by the Canaanites, one of the peoples the Bible says lived in the Holy Land before the Hebrew conquest. The kingdom thought to have been ruled from Jerusalem by the biblical King David is usually dated to at least seven centuries later.
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Okay! If they didn't dig down 26 feet from the top of the wall to the very bottom... how the heck did they figure it was 25 feet high?
It’s 79 feet long too. :-)
Great idea!
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Gadzooks! That's a lot of digging! I'd better rest... 
for awhile.
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But... but... but... didn’t Mohammad build that wall with his own hands? The Muzzies will try to use the discovery to prove that the land rightfully belongs to them. The canaanites were Allah’s buddies or some such nonsense.
So it really belongs to the Canaanities. Any still around? Has Bibi read this yet?
The Canaanites provided a quit claim deed.
Looks like a dry wall.
Though fitting for cannibals, and various forms of human sacrifice.
They brought Bob Vila in - ain’t nuthin’ ‘bout walls he don’t know! :-)
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Yeah, one of the interesting things about the bible, is that the commands about morality--sexual and otherwise--are directly responsive to the way the Canaanites routinely lived.
So all you have to do is think about what Judeo/Christian morality is (no adultery, no incest, no homosexuality, no bestiality, no idols, no human sacrifices, etc.) and the opposite is exactly the way the Canaanites were...
Baal and Asherah, for example the two most popular Canaanite gods, were full brother and sister...AND husband and wife...
An archeologist I knew had a dig in a Canaanite burial ground...for infants given in human sacrifices... Full of pots with tiny charred bones within. Was used for 400 years and had over 100,000 burials there.
Definitely a disgusting culture. No one should wonder why God commanded the Hebrews to wipe them out.
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Of course it is. It doesn't rain there much this time of year. ;-)
Too bad their "parents" didn't 'pass them through the fire' as infants....
The Romans felt the same about the Canaanites Carthaginian cousins, who still retained the child sacrifice for religion.
Gosh. Wonder what God will do to a culture that has killed fifty million or more such innocents to serve its own selfish lusts...
And today's Palestinians claim to be descended from that culture.
“The canaanites were Allah’s buddies or some such nonsense.”
Given the barabaric nature of the canaanites, this is probably true.
Boiled babies in their mother’s milk, etc.
Probably true.
That said, He tends to tolerate a lot if there are just a couple of decent people. And America does have some decent people.
Ewww! I had no idea. I guess it was a fortuitous accident to joke about a connection between the two. While not the same, both “societies” are/were cruel, disgusting and vile.
Yeah, bit of trivia, but the Jewish prohibition against mixing dairy and meat comes from this practice.
The Torah specifically provides that a calf not be “boiled in its mother’s milk” because (IMHO) of the Cannanite practices. (Think about that next time you eat veal in cream sauce; I’m barely kosher, but that makes my skin crawl.)
It expanded to all meat and milk to avoid doing this by accident, but also because doing so, just in general, showed a disregard between life and death -— life giving milk being used as agent of death.
It’s a bit of a peak into the foulness that was the Cannanite culture.
People wondering why the early Hebrews were such hardcases forget what they were fighting.
Yes. Islaam is definitely an improvement on burning perfectly good children and leaving their bones in a pot. Why, think what excellent suicide bombers the little dears might have made, and how much they would have saved on pottery.
The ‘culture’ didn’t. Individuals did.
The babies of the Cannanites did not deserve death.
"I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson
Silly premise.
Why should the innocent be condemned because of the guilty simply due to being within the same political borders?
There would be nothing whatsoever ‘just’ about that!
Thanks.
G-d disagreed, apparently.
A caveat to my last post, certain Eqyptian children definately did not deserve death, but were killed anyway, as that was a necessary step in obtaining freedom.
(Hence a fast before Passover, in honor of the children who died for their parent’s actions.)
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