{"id":3042,"date":"2022-05-30T18:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2022-05-31T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:56:00","slug":"researchers-decipher-oldest-known-hebrew-inscription-on-cursed-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"RESEARCHERS DECIPHER OLDEST KNOWN HEBREW INSCRIPTION ON ‘CURSED’ TABLET"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ISRAEL IN THE LAST DAYS - RESTORER<\/div>\n
\"And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The\n\n
restorer STRONGS 7725: <\/font>\u05d1 shuwb, shoob; a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); <\/span><\/div> of paths to dwell in.\"\n\n \u2014 ISAIAH 58:12<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\n
KNOWLEDGE INCREASED<\/div>\n
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Article Source: Jerusalem Post<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

Researchers say they have deciphered a 3,000-year-old formulaic curse inscription recovered on a small, folded lead amulet found on\u00a0Mount Ebal, making it the oldest proto-Hebrew text ever found in Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the 23-word English translation of the\u00a0inscription, the word \u201ccurse\u201d appears 10 times, and the word \u201cYHWH,\u201d the biblical spelling of God\u2019s name, appears twice, the Associates for Biblical Research (ABR) said in a press conference on Thursday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cCursed, cursed, cursed \u2013 cursed by the God YHW. You will die cursed. Cursed you will surely die. Cursed by YHW \u2013 cursed, cursed, cursed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Deuteronomy 27:15-26, Moses instructs the Levites to lead all the people of Israel from the top of Mount Ebal in a series of 11 curses against anyone who partakes in a variety of actions such as making an idol, dishonoring their mother or father, or moving their neighbor\u2019s boundary stone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Joshua 8:30, Joshua builds an altar on Mount Ebal following his battle with the Ai, makes a burnt offering to God, and repeats the curses of Moses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The ancient Hebrew inscription consists of 40 letters and is centuries older than any known one from ancient Israel, according to the researchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The amulet, known as a defixio or curse tablet, came to light in December 2019 when Scott Stripling, ABR\u2019s director of excavations and the director of the Archaeological Studies Institute at the Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas, led an ABR team to wet sift the discarded material from excavations conducted in 1982-1989 by the late University of Haifa archaeology Prof.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Adam Zertal, a former head of the university’s Archaeology Department, who discovered what has been called the Altar of Joshua on Mount Ebal in Samaria.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Zvi Koenigsberg first reported the discovery of the amulet in an article in the February 7 issue of the Jerusalem Report. He said photos taken for the article by Jerusalem Post chief photographer Marc Israel Sellem helped them figure out a way to uncover the writing on the amulet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Koenigsberg, who assisted Zertal in the excavation of Joshua\u2019s Altar, described in January the process of how the amulet was found in the many piles of dirt that had been left after the excavation. He said a group of Zertal\u2019s friends moved them to a safe place where they could be inspected when the appropriate means of examining the dirt were developed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Discovering that the amulet contained something inside, it was taken to a lab in Prague to perform sophisticated photographs that allow for the construction of a three-dimensional model for objects of that size.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Initially, he explained, they had discovered that the amulet contained ancient Hebrew script, a mark reminiscent of a lotus flower, and the ancient Hebrew letter \u201cAleph.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stripling formed a collaboration with four scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, led by Daniel Vavrik, and two epigraphers \u2013 specialists in deciphering ancient texts \u2013 Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa and Pieter Gert van der Veen of Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The scientists used advanced tomographic scans to recover the hidden text to enable the deciphering of the proto-alphabetic inscription. Van der Veen described the process as tedious, with the researchers recovering letters and words on a day-by-day basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Galil almost immediately recognized the formulaic literary structure in the symmetry of the inscription where phrases are repeated in what is called chiastic parallelism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThese types of amulets are well known in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, but Zertal\u2019s excavated pottery dated to the Iron Age 1 and Late Bronze Age, so logically the tablet derived from one of these earlier periods,” he said. “Even so, our discovery of a Late Bronze Age inscription stunned me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ivana Kumpova, Jaroslav Valach and Michal Vopalensky were also part of the collaborative team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An academic, peer-reviewed article is being written and is expected to be published later this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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