tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post4012297993824060962..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : Seal Connects Hezekiah with Horite BeliefsAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-13756759502803919332015-12-18T13:46:48.444-07:002015-12-18T13:46:48.444-07:00One of my favorite verses!One of my favorite verses!Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-76435473630607483512015-12-14T16:03:04.150-07:002015-12-14T16:03:04.150-07:00This is really cool Alice!
I am reminded of Malac...This is really cool Alice!<br /><br />I am reminded of Malachi 4:2 "But unto you that fear my name shall the SUN of righteousness arise with healing in His WINGS..."<br /><br />-TimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11140933702909323100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-10445414056145113142015-12-03T15:41:42.642-07:002015-12-03T15:41:42.642-07:00Statements issued about this project have been wro...Statements issued about this project have been wrong in the past. On January 16, 2008, Eilat Mazar announced that her excavation team at the Ophel had uncovered an inscribed seal dating to the time of Nehemiah. She read the name on the seal as “Temech” (tav, mem and het). It was first thought that the seal indicated the Temech family, servants in the first temple in Jerusalem. They were among those taken into Babylonian captivity, as mentioned in Nehemiah: "These are the children of the province, that went up out of captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had carried away, and came gain to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city." (Nehemiah 7:6)<br /><br />European scholar Peter van der Veen questioned Mazar's theory, saying that she erred in her reading of the inscription. He pointed out something rather obvious: that the seal inscription should be read backward, since a seal creates a mirror image when pressed in clay. He argued on that basis that the seal bears these letters (shin, lamed, mem and tav) and that the correct reading is "Shlomit". Mazar later acknowledged that the seal should be read as "Shlomit."<br />Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-7125541491104438102015-12-03T15:11:41.586-07:002015-12-03T15:11:41.586-07:00Perhaps also because this excavation is being done...Perhaps also because this excavation is being done at the Arab town of Silwan in East Jerusalem.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-6204506316783412422015-12-03T13:16:25.886-07:002015-12-03T13:16:25.886-07:00Why did it take 6 years to release this informatio...Why did it take 6 years to release this information?<br /><br />I don't know. I imagine any physical evidence tying Jews to Israel from ancient times is considered sensitive, maybe even incendiary in these times.DManAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05593787926481525896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-17149774973568674582015-12-03T12:04:56.732-07:002015-12-03T12:04:56.732-07:00The "official" story doesn't hold up...The "official" story doesn't hold up logically, nor does it align with the historical evidence. The winged sun and the winged beetle represent the same religious belief. No change in symbolism is represented.<br /><br />Further, the dispersion of such royal symbols is expected given that the Horite ruler-priests reigned throughout the ancient Near East, which extended from the Nile to the Orontes in Turkey and to the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. <br /><br />Why did it take 6 years to release this information? Efrat Greenwald, who discovered the seal, reads Paleo-Hebrew.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-21612469644862451992015-12-03T10:56:17.314-07:002015-12-03T10:56:17.314-07:00This story on the discovery has a slightly differe...This story on the discovery has a slightly different take:<br /><br />Late in Hezekiah's life, both the royal administrative authority and the king's personal symbols changed from the winged scarab, a symbol of power and rule throughout the ancient Near East, to that of the winged sun—a motif that proclaimed God's protection, that was employed by the Assyrian kings, including Sennacherib.<br /><br />http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.689594DManAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05593787926481525896noreply@blogger.com