UCSD professor reveals evidence about King Solomon's mines

sandiegonewsroom ^ | 23 Nov 2010 | Claire Harlin

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Kings David & Solomon Were Muslims

[Grizzled Bear]

Isn’t if funny how they make these claims even though Islam didn’t exist until 700 AD?

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[SunkenCiv]

I think you’re a little too demanding regarding the whole “making coherent sense” peccadillo. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

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[ApplegateRanch]

Yeah, and Adam was a Muslim, too.

Adam in the Qur'an According to the Qur'an, God created Adam, the first human, out of clay[3] and commanded the angels to bow to Adam. Satan refused out of pride and was banished from Jannah (Heaven).[4][5]

In Heaven, Satan lured Adam and Eve into disobeying God by tasting from the forbidden tree. God, as a punishment, sends Adam and Eve to earth,[6][7] arriving first at mountain peaks outside Mecca; Adam on Safa, and Eve on Marwa.

In this account, Adam repented for 40 days, at which point God forgave him,[2] rewarded him by sending down the Black Stone and teaching him the hajj. The Qur'an also describes the two sons of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.[8][9]

[AndyJackson]

The PBS documentary is superb and very worth watching.

In tone it could be a little less dramatic and focus more on the archaeological facts, but it is really really good.

[KamperKen]

"Turn off the source of wealth and the culture dies"

An astute point that should be drilled into every liberal arts college major every day.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

The ships that went out to collect gold for Solomon were gone three years and returned with fine gold, apes, peacocks, and a rare wood for making musical intruments never before seen in Israel. The Philippines has all these things and a lot of the islands in the South Pacific were settled in Solomon’s time. The Philippines has the finest placer gold, the finest wood for instruments (Philippine Ebony), the most sought after peacock (a blue colored one from the west island), and small apes.

Jordan?...No way. One wouldn’t take a Tarshish ship to Jordan, obviously.

[smokingfrog]

That’s an interesting thought.

[wildbill]

I saw it. Pretty interesting stuff when you consider the evidence of large scale copper mining/smelting as evidence of a functioning kingdom of some sort.

As usual in the Holy Land, bring any two scholars together for a discussion on Holy Writ Vs. Holy Fiction and you’ll get a rancorous argument where the only thing the two sides will agree on is that a third faction’s theory is blasphemmous bullshit.

Right now, the Holy Fiction faction (Bible is apochryful tales of desert tribes) is apparently more popular/powerful among archeologists than the Holy Writ faction (archeology proving Biblical tales as true)

Personally, I’m a romantic and if they ever find a carving on the wall of a palace in Ur that reads: “mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” I’m not going to theorize that it was written by some bureaucrat in charge of weights and measures.