Did anyone see it? If so, what did you think about it?
I pretty much haven’t watched TV in 2-3 years, but PBS is one of those channels that will repeat shows. Check your local PBS station’s schedule. I’ll bet you can catch it soon.
Yes I saw it. Interesting show. There was a sort of dark ages in the years around and before King David I think having to do with the volcano that is suspected of being the Atlantis and all the large empires were destroyed. In any case there was definitely a large scale mining operation in King Solomon’s time and they now have evidence of large fortresses. I think the only thing that’s still unknown is just how large and wealthy King Solomon’s empire really was.
What’s PBS?
They showed evidence of an artifact from the time of King David and Solomon that had writing in Caananite letters but the words were Hebrew showing that there was a Hebrew kingdom in the area at that time.
USCD professor reveals King Solomon’s Mines
has been declared a Mosque by UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
There is a streaming link.
It was pretty good. Pretty fair (for PBS after all)
Comments?
“The Existence of King Solomon has been a topic of debate.”
When a story starts out with a sentence like that, I dismiss it. Is it because that Jesus was a descendant of King David that someone is trying to make the existence of David’s son debatable? The Bible is quite specific on both David and Solomon. Plus, most of Israel’s history as told in the Bible has been verified.
Did Solomon actually have mines? Maybe yes, and maybe no. What the Bible clearly states it that Solomon taxed the people very heavily, to the point that by the end of his reign, he became rather unpopular. Further, his son, Rehoboam was advised by the elders to lower taxes. Instead, he followed the advise of his young advisors and raised taxes. The end result was that the north revolted, the kingdom was split in two, and Rehoboam was left with only Benjamin and Judah.
The Moslems will invent some way to claim them for Mohamad. Just wait...
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Quck. Get the PA on the horn so they can claim it’s really a Mosque.
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.
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.