A rare discovery of a stone slab with a curse may solve an ancient mystery: When was the Bible written?
Archaeologist Dr. Scott Strippling said he thought the discovery on Mount Ebal was "too good to be true," after realizing it could solve the debate over when and who actually wrote the Bible.
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Discovery: An invisible inscription uncovered in excerpts from the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Judean Desert (Israel Antiquities Authority)
The discovery on Mount Ebal at the end of last month of a small lead tablet
from 3,200 years ago containing an ancient curse in ancient Hebrew script causes an archeological "earthquake" in biblical study and may even contain a central clue to proof of when and who actually wrote the Bible.
The years 1200-1400 BC include the word Yahweh in Proto-Canaanite script, in what is probably the earliest appearance ever of the explicit name. Biblical events at the time they occurred.
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Archaeologist Scott Strippling explained: "This is a very important find. Some describe it as the most important find in our life history, because it is older than all the Hebrew writings we have had before. So it can answer big questions like: Was written and was there at all an alphabetical script through which writers like Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua ben Nun could write?
Many critics have argued, up to this point against these assumptions, saying ‘no, the Torah was written much much later - in the Persian or Hellenistic period’, but this finding tilts the scales in a different direction. ”
He added:“ This is why I called it an earthquake. .. because she will have some aftershocks. "
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In a tablet found on Mount Ebal in
Samaria, known as the biblical "Curse Mountain" - the curse was engraved:
"Cursed, accursed, accursed,
accursed
to
the
Lord
God.
Ancient Hebrew that "is older than any Hebrew that was familiar to us," said Dr. Strippling, director of excavations at Ancient Sheila. To 1200 BC.
Watch Dr. Strippling explain the importance of the findings
The tablet was originally found in December 2019, but the text inside its delicate folds was only revealed later on a tomographic scan.
For Dr. Strippling, however, the magnitude of the discovery was clear from the first moment, as he realized it could indicate that the ancient and sacred scriptures were documented by real-time eyewitnesses.
He said: "I thought it was too good to be true.
The Bible describes Mount Ebal in the Book of Joshua chapter eight as the Mount of Curse, and there Joshua was told to write curses on Ebal - and here we found what was a curse tablet on a site that the Bible says curses were related to.
I was just amazed at what we found. "
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