Archeologists made another significant find in the City of David (literally and figuratively).
A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem’s City of David, a prominent Israeli archeologist said Wednesday.
The 2,500-year-old black stone seal, which has the name “Temech” engraved on it, was found earlier this week amid stratified debris in the excavation under way just outside the Old City walls near the Dung Gate, said archeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar, who is leading the dig.
According to the Book of Nehemiah, the Temech family were servants of the First Temple and were sent into exile to Babylon following its destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
The family was among those who later returned to Jerusalem, the Bible recounts.
[…] The seal of one of the members of the Temech family was discovered just dozens of meters away from the Opel area, where the servants of the Temple, or “Nethinim,” lived in the time of Nehemiah, Mazar said.
“The seal of the Temech family gives us a direct connection between archeology and the biblical sources and serves as actual evidence of a family mentioned in the Bible,” she said. “One cannot help being astonished by the credibility of the biblical source as seen by the archaeological find.”
So much for the “Judaization” of Jerusalem, as the Palestinians call it. History once again shows whose city it was. And archeology is proving that there is more to the Bible than a collection of made-up stories, as some put it.
That seems to be another factor driving the far left to embrace Islam: their effort to replace the objective discipline of archaeology with an ahistorical, subjective, and postmodern form of anthropology. They can’t declare all cultures equally valid when those damned “tomb raiders” keep digging up proof to the contrary, so they lend as much support as they have to a culture dedicated to destroying all evidence of other religions, in the hope that they can be manipulated into destroying all objective history as well, leaving only their subjective pseudo-science.
Great point, Tatterdemalian. If archaelogy and its artifacts are not a legitimate argument for the Jewish people to be able to live near, in, and amongst their holy sites, and the left wants to embrace Islam with their perverted form of anthropolgy, then I say let’s go at it. Let’s learn more about the archetypal Jew hatred from the “sacred” Islamic texts, sira, and Sunni historiographical accounts, which include Koranic verses labeling Jews as enemies of Islam (5:82), and disobedient slayers of their own prophets who suffered justifiable abasement (2:61), including, for some, transformation into apes and pigs (5:60. If we can’t live in our own land, near our Holy Temple, amongst our forefather’s tombs, at the base of our holy mountains, close to the cemetaries where we buried our dead, the rivers with which we watered our animals, and in the villages from which we were exiled and to which we have returned, then we have every damn right to deconstruct the left’s arguments that Islam is peaceful and that the “occupation” is the cause of all the strife in the world. The lefty libtards can’t have it both ways.
I left out mention and attribution to Andrew Bostom, in my comment above, as the author of Apocalyptic Muslim Jew Hatred, where he cites examples of Jew hatred in the Koran. His article can be read here.