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Title: Ancient Tablets Confirm Biblical Account of Jewish Exile in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon
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URL Source: http://christiannews.net/2015/02/09 ... le-in-nebuchadnezzars-babylon/
Published: Feb 10, 2015
Author: Heather Clark
Post Date: 2015-02-10 12:05:54 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM – Over 100 tablets that date back to the times of Nebuchadnezzar’s rule in Babylon, now modern-day Iraq, have been placed on display in Jerusalem as a further testament to the reliability of the Scriptures.
The palm-sized tablets, which provide a glimpse into the lives of the Jews during the time they lived in exile in Babylon, had been discovered in Iraq and held by a UK-based Israeli collector. The artifacts contain writing in the ancient akkadian cuneiform script and detail transactions, trades and contracts between Jews in approximately 500 B.C.
They also trace at least one Judean family over four generations: a man named Samak-Yama, his son, grandson and his grandson’s five children. Some of the names cited in the tablets include references to Yah, such as Netanyahu and Shalemiyahu, signifying the name of God, or Yahveh.
As outlined in the Old Testament, which is known to Jews as the Tanakh, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon destroyed Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem and forced many Jews into exile.
“But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon,” reads Ezra 5:12.
“Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, who Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away,” Esther 2:6 also outlines in providing the story of Esther, who later became the Queen of Persia, or modern-day Iran.
Psalm 137:1 also outlines the sorrow many Jews felt during this time in exile in stating, “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.” Hence, the exhibition has been entitled “By the Rivers of Babylon.”
Connect with Christian News Historians believe that the discovery of the ancient tablets, which also mention the Chebar River noted in Ezekiel 11, to be a fascinating find.
“We started reading the tablets and within minutes we were absolutely stunned,” Babylonian expert Filip Vukosavovic told reporters. “It fills in a critical gap in understanding of what was going on in the life of Judeans in Babylonia more than 2,500 years ago.”
“On the one hand it’s boring details, but on the other you learn so much about who these exiled people were and how they lived,” he said.
Filmmaker and author Simcha Jacobovici wrote in an article for the Huffington Post last week that the tablets underscore the accuracy of the Scriptures.
“This discovery is a remarkable confirmation of the historical reliability of the Biblical text,” he said. “It is also a reminder that many people once lived in Iraq.”
The tablets are now on display in Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, and will be available for public viewing for the next year.
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#1. To: Vicmonte13, Orthodoxa, redleghunter, nolu chan (#0)
This is pretty major news, coming alongside the find of the ancient Gallilean village and the upcoming manuscript fragments from Egyptian death masks that contain passages from a first-century gospel of Mark and several other very early second-century manuscripts.
#11. To: TooConservative, GarySpFc (#10)
Yes, for the skeptics some of the things they were so skeptical about is now under their noses:0) I wouldn't be surprised if we received some REAL news on other Biblical objects soon as well. There has always been stories of the Ark of the Covenant and Noah's Ark. Most end up being stories without physical evidence. Now those would be great.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4413797,00.html Ancient Jewish village found in Galilee Uncovered site includes ancient synagogue, houses and evidence of pottery production, says Samford University professor who led archaeological dig Strange told Al.com that the site teaches about Galilean Jewish village life and its economy at the birth of both Christianity and the Judaism of the Talmud. The village was apparently abandoned in the mid-fourth century. What happened in the mid 4h century or so? The Roman–Sassanid war. A war between the newly Christian Rome and the Zoroastrian Sassanids. This war was probably the first real holy war waged against Christianity and it nearly lost. The Jews sided with which ever side seemed to be winning and at the end lost out big. The war devastated the middle east and it never recovered. The Muslim victories were because of this war which weakened both empires.
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#10. To: A K A Stone, redleghunter (#1)
Replies to Comment # 10. This is pretty major news, coming alongside the find of the ancient Gallilean village and the upcoming manuscript fragments from Egyptian death masks that contain passages from a first-century gospel of Mark and several other very early second-century manuscripts.
#14. To: TooConservative, A K A Stone, redleghunter (#10)
This is pretty major news, coming alongside the find of the ancient Gallilean village and the upcoming manuscript fragments from Egyptian death masks that contain passages from a first-century gospel of Mark and several other very early second-century manuscripts.
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