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| Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋ u |
2012.04.16, 1610
Eil•i•yâhꞋu Konn
Rᵊkhov•otꞋ
I saw this article concerning what the archaeologist believes is the altar built by Yᵊho•shuꞋa Bin Nun upon the entrance of Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ to Kᵊna•anꞋ,
-- http://www.jidaily.com/eKD/e
Here are a couple small excerpts,
"And then the excavations began. An Egyptian scarab seal was found toward the beginning. It was a big surprise. It was a seal of Raamses II, who is considered the Pharaoh of the exodus from Egypt. Afterward, another one was unearthed. Both were from the last third of his era, between 1250 and 1220 B.C.E. Few scarabs of that type have been found in the region – only at the altar, which had been sealed off from outside interference (a sealed locus) since the time it was hidden away."
"When the outer layer of stone was removed, a structure, or bamah, measuring nine meters by seven meters and four meters high, was uncovered. Its original height is known because the other side was completely preserved. The upper part of the structure was found paved, and on its three lower sides there was a terrace that jutted out approximately two meters. The structure was not filled by stones, but hollow (“hollow with planks”; Exodus 27:8), and at its center were two separate walls. When the upper layer was removed, a big surprise awaited the excavators: a layer of pure ash approximately a meter and a half thick that contained approximately a thousand animal bones, all scorched by fire.
When people eat a cooked meal, the bones are not scorched. Only when they are completely burned as offerings does the fire reach the bones. The bones were sent to Jerusalem that very evening, to the zooarchaeologist Liora Horwitz. Her answer was quick in coming. She said that she had never seen such a special collection of bones. All of them belonged to male yearling animals of four groups: goats, sheep, cattle and fallow deer."
"No animals but those four kinds were found. As stated, in 1200 B.C.E., animals were used as sacrifices in accordance with the laws of the Torah. If the researchers say that the laws of sacrifice and kashrut were created only approximately six hundred years later, how can these findings be explained? Carbon-14 dating also indicated, with rare precision, the year 1200 B.C.E."
This seems to be about 227 year off from "The Chronology of the Tanakh....." Do you think that if it is the altar, that the C-14 dating was of later bones and the original ones were cleared out, i.e., that the altar was used for about 227 years and then covered up?
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First, "researchers" track elements of kash•rutꞋ back to Av•râ•hâmꞋ – BCE 2027! The laws were conveyed down to Mosh•ëhꞋ on Har Sin•aiꞋ ca. BCE 1450 – at least a quarter of a millennium before BCE 1200.
Unless one maintains that, in the span of negative 7 years, Yᵊho•shuꞋ a Bin-Nun conquered Kᵊna•anꞋ and developed Yi•sᵊ•râ•eilꞋ into a nation to the point that it was powerful enough for Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah to mention it on his stele (firmly dated to BCE 1207), BCE 1200 is a tough date to defend for the miz•beiꞋ akh being that of Yᵊho•shuꞋ a Bin-Nun!
If you consult my Biblical Chronology, Chronology of the Tan"kh from the 'Big Stretch-Apart' (popularly, "Big Bang"), you'll find that BCE 1207 is firmly anchored in that stele. My chronology is anchored at a number of points by such well-fixed archeological and astronomical certainties, then the less certain information interpolated and extrapolated within these inflexible constraining anchor points. You'll further find that the period mentioned by the rogue archeologist (Univ. of Haifa Prof. Adam Zertal) was the time of Shoph•eitꞋ #4, DƏvor•âhꞋ (who ruled not far from ShᵊkhëmꞋ ; Sho•phƏt•imꞋ 4.4; 5.31), and Shoph•eitꞋ #5, Gid•onꞋ Bën-Yo•âshꞋ (Sho•phƏt•imꞋ 6.11). who seems to have ruled in the vicinity of ShᵊkhëmꞋ at this time and set up such a miz•beiꞋ akh (Sho•phƏt•imꞋ 6.26). Thus, I conclude that this is more likely the Miz•beiꞋ akh of Gid•onꞋ .
Excellent find and question. !ëì äëáåã
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