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October 29, 2008
Now, Whose Fault is This?
Yesterday I pleaded for a short moratorium on discoveries from the Near East, discoveries that might tempt bibliobloggers to blog in great numbers. And what happens? There is a discovery of a First-Temple era tunnel in Jerusalem.
A water tunnel dating back to the First Temple era - but that might have been used even earlier, during King David's conquest of Jerusalem - has been uncovered in the ancient City of David, a prominent Israeli archeologist said Wednesday. [emphasis added]
To understand the highlighted words in the above quotation from the Jerusalem Post, see the remarks of Mark Twain that I also reported yesterday. When will people ever learn the simple truths communicated for our benefit by this complex man?
And if the above quotation isn't spectacular enough, how about this one?
But the tunnel's characteristics, date, and location, Mazar said, testify with "high probability" that the water tunnel is the one called "tsinor" in the story of the King David's conquest of Jerusalem (Samuel II, 5:6-8; Chronicles I, 11:4-6).
I don't have my notes handy but I think the tsinor has been discovered almost as often as Noah's Ark. I'm not questioning the possibility; I'm questioning the "high probability."
Posted by Duane Smith at October 29, 2008 8:57 PM | Read more on Archaeology |
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You know, all these late-breaking discoveries and NT Wrong's list of bibliobloggers, I think this is amounting to a conspiracy against you, Duane.
Posted by: Jim Getz at October 30, 2008 7:46 AM
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