Two years ago, new DNA studies confirmed aspects of the biblical description of the Philistines’ origin. Three years ago, an unearthed signet-seal affirmed the identity of someone mentioned in the biblical text.
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Four years ago, a then-recent discovery of an exploding meteor wiping out a series of cities at the south end of the Dead Sea corresponded to about the time the Bible says that Sodom and Gomorrah met their fiery fate. Despite the confidence of the scholarly consensus, this provides proof of the Israelites’ literary ability, hundreds of years before skeptics thought it possible.Īnd this kind of thing keeps happening.
This tiny curse reveals that the right people at the right time in the right place were writing about God just as the Bible describes. It’s long been assumed that the early, and supposedly primitive, Israelites simply lacked the skill to come up with the written grandeur of books like Genesis and Deuteronomy. The common perception among biblical scholars, however, has been that the bulk of the Bible wasn’t written when it says it was. That puts it, biblically speaking, in the time of the Judges. The more important aspect is potentially earth-shattering for biblical studies.Īccording to a professor at the University of Haifa, this discovery is “the earliest Hebrew inscription found so far.” Scholars investigating the find place the date of the inscription to around 3,200 years ago. Even better, either of these options is the least important aspect of what makes this discovery interesting. So, what we have in the discovery of this amulet is either a remarkable coincidence-a written curse left at the very location the Bible associates with curses-or yet another confirmation of something the Bible says happened. Put another way, they were to announce the blessings and curses that came with their role as God’s people. Ebal and to declare there, to God and to one another, the promises of obedience and disobedience. Cursed by YHW-cursed, cursed, cursed.”Īs recorded near the end of Deuteronomy, God called the newly freed Israelites to assemble on Mt. It’s a short curse, just 40 letters in Hebrew and only 23 words when translated to English: “Cursed, cursed, cursed-cursed by the God YHW. It was found in 2019 among materials previously excavated on Israel’s Mt. The curse was written in Hebrew, inscribed on a small leaden amulet (or tablet). While that may seem a strange thing to do, it wasn’t their curse. At the end of March, the Associates for Biblical Research published a curse.
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