Posted on 12/02/2005 8:43:25 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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"There is sometimes a reality, a very precise reality, though maybe not all true, described in the Bible," Mazar said. "This is giving the Bible's version a chance."
--- Has there been an instance where archeology has proven the Bible wrong?
BTTT
Of course not, but I bet it has changed several pre-conceived notions about what the Bible says.
A distinct difference, that.
King David's existence cannot be scientifically proven, therefore there was no King David/sarc
Note near the end of the article this line:
where the Bible says the battle of Armageddon took place
You mean it's already happened, strange nobody told me.
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So, obviousy, this is somewhere that Mohammed (MHNBC!) took a holy "dump" after sodomizing a 12 year old and her goat!
"It's an Islamazi SHRINE of worship! The "filthy Joooooos" are wrong to dig here, the Islamazis demand the Jooooos stop proving that Israel was theirs LONG before Satan's anus produced the first PaleSimian....and that the PA now plans to use explosives to excavate this site, and build a Mosque over here too! Call it the "Dome of the Rectum"!"
Did I get it right?
Am I close to how the anti-Semites will view this finding?
Armageddon is a place - Har-megiddo - and MANY battles have been fought there... the most important historically being:
Megiddo has been the site of three battles in recorded history:
Battle of Megiddo (1469 BC): fought between the armies of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition led by the rulers of Megiddo and Kadesh;
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC): fought between Egypt and the Kingdom of Judah;
Battle of Megiddo (1918): fought during World War I between Allied troops, led by General Edmund Allenby, and the defending Ottoman army.
"Prof. Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology said Mazar's interpretation should be understood as the latest in a series of "messianic eruptions" designed to bolster the image of David as a ruler of an important civilization, an idea that has lost currency in recent years in part because of Finkelstein's writing against it."
He should change his name.
I suggest "Palestine Finkelstein."
Why does it have to be the palace of David? Once you bring that in you sound like something of a lunatic"
But Why NOT call it David's Palace? The Professor should use Occam's Razor once in a while.
II Samuel ping.
Ping!
Yep, close.
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."FReeper sgtbono2002
"Then let's wait and see what the Arabs do after they take Gaza. There's nothing like Arab reality to break up a Jewish fantasy."FReeper Noachian
A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."
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From what I've picked up, there are plenty of cases in which archaeology
has eventually been show to back up the Biblical account.
E.g., those non-existent Hittites, names of folks like Pilate finally
found in stone, etc.
The Biblical account Israelite conqest of the land of Canaan has been called into question by archaeological findings.
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