[vannrox]

Very Intersting.

[Fractal Trader]

You mean "vry intrstng" ? : - )

[Darksheare]

"which appears to furnish proof of the existence of the Temple"

We know there was a Temple.
We know the Romans burned it down.
So why are these guys so bent on hedging and saying that they have to prove it existed?
The Romans made the Arch of Titus in commemoration of flattening the place.

If authentic, it'll go a little towards squelching the morons who insist there never was a Temple there. 'Course there are those types who insist there never was a Temple, and will never accept that truth even when presented with irrefutable evidence.

[aruanan]

But sources have indicated that the writing surfaced in the Temple Mount area as a result of widescale excavation work done in recent years in the area by Muslims, and that Palestinians relayed the fragment to a major collector of antiquities in Jerusalem.

Must have been something they overlooked in their attempt to rid the site of anything that substantiates the historical basis for Israel as a nation that antedates the upstart Muslims.

[Puppage]

at the end of the ninth century B.C.E

How PC!!!

[harrym]

And once again "BCE"???? When did Before Christ and Anno Domini drop off the map and this Common Era B.S. pop up? It just seemed to slip in there with no announcement or reason given or consensus taken. Like going to the metric system without really telling anyone. If we are going from year "0" each way, what is the signficance of that year? It is (supposedly, probably not accurately) the year designated as the birth of Christ. Our calendar system has been based on this for centuries. How come a bunch of politically correct a-holes get to change everything at will? When my grandson asks what the A.D. means on the dates on old buildings do I have to go through a long explanation of how it used to be but is no more and when he asks why, what is my response (remember he is only 4 and I never swear around him).