{"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>According to the Associated Press, archaelogists 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 special tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Israeli geologists said Monday they have examined a stone tablet detailing repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon that, if authenticated, would be a rare piece of physical evidence confirming biblical narrative.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The find  whose origin is murky  is about the size of a legal pad, with a 15-line inscription in ancient Hebrew that strongly resembles descriptions in the Bible\u2019s Book of Kings. It could also strengthen Jewish claims to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City that is now home to two major mosques.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><i>The sandstone tablet has a 15-line inscription in ancient Hebrew that resembles descriptions in Kings II, 12:1\u20136, 11\u201317, said Israel\u2019s Geological Survey, which examined the artifact. The words refer to King Joash, who ruled the area 2,800 years&nbsp;ago.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In it, the king tells priests to take \u201choly money \u2026 to buy quarry stones and timber and copper and labor to carry out the duty with faith.\u201d If the work is completed well, \u201cthe Lord will protect his people with blessing,\u201d reads the last sentence of the inscription.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting, but I should note that there seems to be much more confusion over this tablet\u2019s authenticity than over the James ossuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, archaelogists have found a very special tablet. Israeli geologists said Monday they have examined a stone tablet detailing repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon that, if authenticated, would be a rare piece of physical evidence confirming biblical narrative.&nbsp; The find whose origin is murky is about the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/15\/ancient-tablet-seems-to-corroborate-biblical-narrative\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAncient Tablet Seems to Corroborate Biblical Narrative\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}