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Marcus. -> Digging the Bible: Truth in every spadeful, it seems (6/28/2008 8:36:19 PM)
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Spotted this blog recently. I thought it was interesting.
Denyse O'Leary
June 25, 2008 at 1:35 pm · Filed under Vox Populi
The more people sift through the sands of the Holy Land, the more artifacts they turn up - silent witnesses to the lives and times of the razor-thin slice of humanity captured in the Bible. But also there is more opportunity than ever to generate meaningless but lucrative controversies by pretending to dig up material that “disproves” the Bible. Here are some recent, apparently genuine, finds:
In November 2007, Dutch researcher Marjo Korpel identified an imposing document seal at the Israel Museum, first catalogued in 1964, as belonging to the prophet Elijah’s nemesis, Jezebel. There has been much scholarly chinwagging since then about whether the seal really belonged to the infamous queen. In its favour are the fact that the name Jezebel is rare and few women in the 9th century BC were powerful enough to have one.
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