{"id":874,"date":"2003-01-15T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T16:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/15\/ancient-tablet-seems-to-corroborate-biblical-narrative\/"},"modified":"2003-01-15T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2003-01-15T16:11:27","slug":"ancient-tablet-seems-to-corroborate-biblical-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/15\/ancient-tablet-seems-to-corroborate-biblical-narrative","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Tablet Seems to Corroborate Biblical Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accord\u00ading to the Asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded Press, archael\u00ado\u00adgists have found a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/ap\/20030113\/ap_wo_en_po\/me_gen_israel_ancient_tablet\">very spe\u00adcial tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Israeli geol\u00ado\u00adgists said Mon\u00adday they have exam\u00adined a stone tablet detail\u00ading repair plans for the Jew\u00adish Tem\u00adple of King Solomon that, if authen\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded, would be a rare piece of phys\u00adi\u00adcal evi\u00addence con\u00adfirm\u00ading bib\u00adli\u00adcal nar\u00adra\u00adtive. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The find \u2014 whose ori\u00adgin is murky \u2014 is about the size of a legal pad, with a 15-line inscrip\u00adtion in ancient Hebrew that strong\u00adly resem\u00adbles descrip\u00adtions in the Bible\u2019s Book of Kings. It could also strength\u00aden Jew\u00adish claims to a dis\u00adput\u00aded holy site in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City that is now home to two major mosques. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><i>The sand\u00adstone tablet has a 15-line inscrip\u00adtion in ancient Hebrew that resem\u00adbles descrip\u00adtions in Kings II, 12:1\u20136, 11\u201317, said Israel\u2019s Geo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Sur\u00advey, which exam\u00adined the arti\u00adfact. The words refer to King Joash, who ruled the area 2,800 years ago. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>In it, the king tells priests to take \u201choly mon\u00adey \u2026 to buy quar\u00adry stones and tim\u00adber and cop\u00adper and labor to car\u00adry out the duty with faith.\u201d If the work is com\u00adplet\u00aded well, \u201cthe Lord will pro\u00adtect his peo\u00adple with bless\u00ading,\u201d reads the last sen\u00adtence of the inscrip\u00adtion. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s inter\u00adest\u00ading, but I should note that there seems to be much more con\u00adfu\u00adsion over this tablet\u2019s authen\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adty than over the James ossuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accord\u00ading to the Asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded Press, archael\u00ado\u00adgists have found a very spe\u00adcial tablet. Israeli geol\u00ado\u00adgists said Mon\u00adday they have exam\u00adined a stone tablet detail\u00ading repair plans for the Jew\u00adish Tem\u00adple of King Solomon that, if authen\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded, would be a rare piece of phys\u00adi\u00adcal evi\u00addence con\u00adfirm\u00ading bib\u00adli\u00adcal nar\u00adra\u00adtive. The find \u2014 whose ori\u00adgin is murky \u2014 is \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/15\/ancient-tablet-seems-to-corroborate-biblical-narrative\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAncient Tablet Seems to Cor\u00adrob\u00ado\u00adrate Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Nar\u00adra\u00adtive\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}