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Bible Proven True! -
07-14-2007, 03:52 PM
Of course, WE don't need any proof. But I have a feeling this little tablet will inspire the conversion of billions of heathens—who could continue to deny God in the face of such overwhelming, crushingly monumental evidence?
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Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:14am BST 13/07/2007
The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum's great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years.
But Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna, let out such a cry last Thursday. He had made what has been called the most important find in Biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the historical books of the Old Testament are based on fact.
Searching for Babylonian financial accounts among the tablets, Prof Jursa suddenly came across a name he half remembered - Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, described there in a hand 2,500 years old, as "the chief eunuch" of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.
Prof Jursa, an Assyriologist, checked the Old Testament and there in chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, he found, spelled differently, the same name - Nebo-Sarsekim.
Nebo-Sarsekim, according to Jeremiah, was Nebuchadnezzar II's "chief officer" and was with him at the siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC, when the Babylonians overran the city.
The small tablet, the size of "a packet of 10 cigarettes" according to Irving Finkel, a British Museum expert, is a bill of receipt acknowledging Nabu-sharrussu-ukin's payment of 0.75 kg of gold to a temple in Babylon.
The tablet is dated to the 10th year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 595BC, 12 years before the siege of Jerusalem.
Evidence from non-Biblical sources of people named in the Bible is not unknown, but Nabu-sharrussu-ukin would have been a relatively insignificant figure.
"This is a fantastic discovery, a world-class find," Dr Finkel said yesterday. "If Nebo-Sarsekim existed, which other lesser figures in the Old Testament existed? A throwaway detail in the Old Testament turns out to be accurate and true. I think that it means that the whole of the narrative [of Jeremiah] takes on a new kind of power."
Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing and was commonly used in the Middle East between 3,200 BC and the second century AD. It was created by pressing a wedge-shaped instrument, usually a cut reed, into moist clay.
The full translation of the tablet reads: (Regarding) 1.5 minas (0.75 kg) of gold, the property of Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, the chief eunuch, which he sent via Arad-Banitu the eunuch to [the temple] Esangila: Arad-Banitu has delivered [it] to Esangila. In the presence of Bel-usat, son of Alpaya, the royal bodyguard, [and of] Nadin, son of Marduk-zer-ibni. Month XI, day 18, year 10 [of] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
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Re: Bible Proven True! -
07-14-2007, 08:53 PM
Just more proof that the "improvised privatization" of Bagdad's museum has been for the best, in spite of the whining from certain frog-legged traitors stateside!
So a bunch of obsolete ashtrays got smashed, they were going to waste due to the innefficiency of the public sector! Now that the treasures of Iraqi history are in (many) private hands, we're seeing some progress. Who knows, maybe the holy grail might turn up at somebody's garage sale!
This reminds me, I co-wrote the school history textbooks that we're using to replace the Saddam-era textbooks, check it out:
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The History of Iraq:
6000 BC (the begining of time) to 600 ad: Read the Bible.
600 to 1000 AD: Islam arrives. Everybody starts living in mud huts and marrying multiple camels.
1300 AD: Mongols liberate Iraq. After a brief period of civilization, they leave, and everybody goes back to mud huts and camels again.
1400 AD: Turks conquer Iraq. Lots of turkish stuff happens.
1918: The British liberate Iraq. They're even more civilized than Mongols.
1920's: Kurds rebell. Winston Churchill recommends bombing their villages with chemical weapons. Good idea.
1970: Iran and Al-Queda put Saddam Hussien in power.
1980's: Nothing whatsoever happens. At all. Ever.
1990: Kurds rebell. Saddam Hussien starts bombing their villages with chemical weapons. Bad idea.
Anything later: Ask your parents.
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Re: Bible Proven True! -
07-14-2007, 09:34 PM
Truly you are one of the great linguistics, Brother Trent. Although are you sure you want to leave 1990+ to be explained by possibly liberal parents? Although the odds of there being any left in Iraq is almost 0, so maybe that's just over-thinking it on my part, a sin I struggle with.
But I am in complete agreement: it is a blessed thing that the museum articles were 'donated' to their rightful owners, the Americans. Knowing the Iraqis, they were probably just using them to prop up the towels on their heads or to improvise for toilet paper -- at least they are safe in the hands of their liberators. Imagine, people who don't know where their next meal is coming from having their hands on some of the most precious artifacts in History? It boggles the mind!
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Re: Bible Proven True! -
07-15-2007, 01:09 AM
It's extraordinary that this genuine artifact has been found. Of course, Old Testament dates are historically correct.
Think of it, a bill of receipt carved in stone --- those were the days when the written word really was graven in stone
1st Timothy 2: 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1st Timothy 2: 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works ...
1 Timothy 5: 16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed ...
Proverbs 31: 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness ...
Proverbs 31: 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness ...
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