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Chuck Missler | Angels, Nephilim, Aliens, Gen 6
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Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2018
A glimpse at the important excavation work revealed this year.
Each year, on an almost daily basis, archaeological discoveries
help us better understand the Bible and affirm its details about
people, events, and culture.
Below are the top excavation findings reported in 2018 which
have increased our knowledge of the biblical world and the early
history of Christianity.
10) Biblical “Yerushalayim” inscription on ancient column
Archeologists uncovered an inscription on a pillar in an
excavation of an ancient potter’s village, near the western edge
of the modern city of Jerusalem earlier this year. The
inscription includes the word, “Yerushalayim,” the name of
Jerusalem written in Hebrew, and was dated to 100 B.C.
The potter’s village no doubt served the many pilgrims who were
on their way to the Temple in Jerusalem, just a few miles to the
east. It calls to mind the potter’s field in Matthew 27:7 that
was bought by the priests with the money Judas took for
betraying Jesus and then returned.
9) Clay pomegranate found at Tel Shiloh
Tel Shiloh, the site where the Jewish tabernacle and the Holy
Ark were located between the Israelite conquest and the building
of the Temple in Jerusalem, yielded an unusual clay pomegranate
in an excavation this year. In the Bible the pomegranate is a
common temple decoration (1 Kings 7:18; 2 Kings 25:17), and
small pomegranate decorations hung from hems of the robes of the
priests (Ex. 28:33).
8) Esarhaddon inscriptions found at the shrine of Jonah
In 2014 ISIS blew up the shrine of the tomb of the prophet Jonah
in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The now-destroyed Muslim shrine had
been situated on a mound, where archaeologists soon found the
remains of a palace of the Assyrian King Esarhaddon. The king’s
name is referenced in inscriptions discovered in tunnels ISIS
dug into the mound, as the group searched for artifacts to sell
on the antiquities market. Today, archaeologists are using these
tunnels to investigate the temple remains.
The Old Testament references Esarhaddon when discussing the
assassination of his father Sennacherib (1 Kings 19:36–37; Isa.
37:37–38), who was the king who ravaged much of Hezekiah’s
kingdom of Judah and unsuccessfully besieged Jerusalem.
Esarhaddon himself reigned from 681–669 B.C. Information
archaeologists discover in the remains of his palace will tell
us more about the latter days of the kingdom of Assyria than of
the time of Jonah, who lived almost a century earlier and whose
actual final resting place is unknown.
7) Semitic abecedary found in Egypt
Biblical history intersects multiple times with the history of
writing, as illustrated by an inscribed piece of limestone
discovered in 1995 in a tomb along the west bank of the Nile at
Luxor. University of British Columbia Egyptologist Thomas
Schneider has deciphered the letters and announced this year
that it's an abecedary, a very early version of the Semitic
alphabet in ABC order.
The excavated tomb dates back to 1450 B.C., the time of Moses,
according to the biblical chronology. It suggests that if “Moses
wrote down everything the Lord had said” (Ex. 24:4), he wasn’t
the only one writing in a Semitic script in Egypt at that time.
6) Unlooted royal family tomb at Megiddo
A Canaanite tomb excavated at Tel Megiddo in 2016 and announced
earlier this year has revealed new information about the
inhabitants of one of the most famous and important ancient
cities in the region. At the original announcement last March,
archaeologists marveled that the 3,700-year-old tomb was still
intact and unlooted, yielding the remains of a man, a woman, and
a child, all adorned with gold and silver jewelry.
From the tomb, archaeologists expected to learn much more about
the Canaanite culture that existed in Israel during the time of
the patriarchs. And, indeed, just a few weeks ago it was
reported that residue in one of the jugs from the tomb was
discovered to be vanilla, which was not thought to have been
known nor used in that part of the ancient world at that time.
The finding illustrates the robust spice trade of the ancient
world.
5) Beka weight from the Temple Mount
An extra-careful processing of archaeologically recovered dirt
called the wet sifting process has resulted in many more tiny
but significant discoveries in recent years, such as the beka
weight announced recently. As explained in Exodus 38:26, the
beka was used to measure the half shekel temple tax due from
each member of the community.
This tiny weight (5.5 grams or 0.2 ounces) was inscribed with
the Hebrew letters spelling beka and was discovered in
excavations near Robinson's arch, at the southwestern corner of
the Temple Mount. It is believed to have been used to weigh the
temple tax during the First Temple period.
4) Governor of Jerusalem’s seal impression
In 2017, while cleaning out dust between stones in an ancient
Jerusalem wall, archaeologists discovered a biblical title
heretofore unattested by archaeology, “governor of the city.” As
the dust was carefully sifted, a clay seal impression was
recovered. The image on the clay depicted two figures facing
each other and the inscription.
The governor of the city, much like a modern mayor, is mentioned
in 2 Kings 23:8, where the author lists a man named Joshua as
the governor of the city in the days of Hezekiah, and in 2
Chronicles 18:25, where the author notes Amon as governor of the
city in the days of Jehoshaphat (NASB).
3) Signature of Isaiah the prophet in seal impression?
Another seal impression surfaced in 2018, this one with the
actual name of one of the most important Old Testament prophets,
Isaiah. It nearly says “Isaiah the prophet,” but because there’s
a letter missing at the end, it’s unclear if it actually refers
to a personal name.
One piece of evidence that suggests that the seal impression
refers to the biblical prophet is a small piece of clay that
archeologists recovered in an area near Jerusalem's Temple
Mount. This similar seal impression, which was first found in
2015, says “of King Hezekiah of Judah.” King Hezekiah and the
prophet Isaiah are mentioned in the same verse 17 times in the
Bible.
2) The statue head of a biblical king from Abel Beth Maacah
This discovery might have shot to the top of the list if there
was some way of identifying who this statue head depicts. But
there's no name or inscription. The best clue to his identity is
the band around his head, suggesting a crown.
This tiny two-inch sculpture was found in 2017 at Abel
Beth-Maacah, a site near the border between Israel and Lebanon,
but caught the public’s attention when it was placed on display
at the Israel Museum last summer. It dates to the 9th century
B.C., so it could depict a king of the northern kingdom Israel,
such as Ahab or Jehu. But just as easily it could be King Hazael
of Damascus or King Ithobaal of Tyre, the father of Jezebel.
1) Pontius Pilate Seal Ring
The name of Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator who
interrogated Jesus and then ordered him crucified, has turned up
for the second time in the archaeological record. The first time
his name and title were found engraved in a stone discovered in
1961 in secondary use at Caesarea Maritima. Just a few weeks
ago, scientists announced that a seal ring excavated in the late
1960s at Herodium, a desert palace just outside of Bethlehem,
also carried the inscription “of Pilates.”
The inscription on the badly corroded ring was finally read
using advanced photographic techniques. The copper alloy ring
was probably not fancy enough to have actually been worn by
Pilate. It was more likely worn by someone who was authorized to
act on Pilate's authority and who would use the seal to create
official communications.
These discoveries, relatively insignificant individually, join
with many other discoveries over the decades to give us a great
deal of confidence in the historical details contained in the
Bible.
Gordon Govier is editor of ARTIFAX magazine and executive
producer of The Book & The Spade radio program and podcast.
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Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2017
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Each year, on an almost daily basis, archaeological discoveries
help us better understand the Bible and affirm its details about
people, events, and culture.
Below are the top excavation findings reported in 2017 which
have increased our knowledge of the biblical world and the early
history of Christianity.
10) Pagan center discovered at Hippos/Sussita
A theater and bath house complex discovered at Hippos/Sussita,
overlooking the Sea of Galilee, was part of a pagan cult site.
As part of the Decapolis—the pagan Roman cities mentioned in the
gospels—Hippos/Sussita was not a focus of Jesus’ ministry, but
many of its people were likely a part of his audiences (Matthew
4:25). The existence of this cultic center was first suggested
by the discovery of a mask of the Roman god Pan in 2015.
9) Byzantine church mosaics found
Mosaic inscriptions found in the remains of churches excavated
at the site of Byzantine villages in the Galilee give new
evidence for the spread of Christianity in the region after the
religion’s formal adoption by the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 380.
The mosaics date to the fourth and fifth centuries. One includes
the mention of a woman who was a donor to the church
construction—clear evidence for the prominent role of women in
the history of the early church. Then just last week, the
discovery of another was announced, drawing more attention to
how Christianity spread.
8) Augustus temple altar at Caesarea
Recent excavations at Caesarea Maritima found the base of an
altar that stood near the entrance of a temple dedicated to
Augustus Caesar that was built by King Herod. The historian
Josephus reported that the temple, built high to overlook the
harbor, contained a gigantic statue of Augustus and a statue of
Roma. Beneath the level of the altar, archaeologists found two
large halls and the remains of a large staircase similar in
construction to the architecture around the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem. A church was later built on the site of the temple
during the Byzantine period. (Archaeologists are re-excavating
the entrance area to Caesarea as part of a large renovation to
make it into a much larger attraction, including the restoration
of its 2,000-year-old synagogue.)
7) Merneptah’s destruction of Gezer
Ten years of archaeology at Tel Gezer wrapped up in 2017.
Archaeologists Steven Ortiz of Southwestern Baptist Seminary and
Sam Wolff of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported a
clear sequence of occupations and destructions dating from the
time of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah (13th century B.C.) to
the Assyrian conquest (eighth century B.C.). The Merneptah
destruction affirms the inscription on the Merneptah stele in
the Cairo Museum, which states: “Gezer has been captured;
Yano’am is made non-existent. Israel is laid waste and his seed
is not.” Another destruction level corresponds to the biblical
account of a pharaoh who captured the city and gave it as dowry
for his daughter, who became one of King Solomon’s wives (1
Kings 9:16).
6) 12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave confirmed
Seventy years after the first discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls in
caves overlooking the famous body of water, archaeologists
identified one more cave where scroll materials had been stored.
A careful reinvestigation of Qumran Cave No. 53 by a team led by
Randall Price of Liberty University and Oren Gutfeld of Hebrew
University found broken pottery of the type that had been used
to store scrolls. In the remains of one pot, they found a scrap
of rolled papyrus but with no writing on it. The archaeologists
also found 1950s-era pickaxes in the back of the cave,
indicating it had been looted many years ago.
5) Seal impressions and tower redating in City of David
The City of David, the oldest area of Jerusalem, continues to
reveal new details of life in biblical times. In September, the
IAA exhibited for the first time a collection of clay seal
impressions (known as bullae) which came from various
excavations. The clay sealings date from roughly the time of
King Hezekiah (700 B.C.) to the end of the Judean monarchy (586
B.C.). One of the sealings bears the name of Achiav ben
Menachem, which suggests a connection to two kings of the
northern kingdom: Ahab and Menachem. Archaeologists believe this
is evidence that refugees from the northern kingdom of Israel
found their way into senior positions in the southern kingdom of
Judea.
Meanwhile, a tower guarding the Gihon spring in the Kidron
Valley may not be as old as archaeologists had believed. When
originally excavated a number of years ago, it was dated to the
Canaanite period, 1700 B.C., because of pottery and other
findings. But an analysis of organic matter by the Weizmann
Institute of Science suggests construction around 800–900 B.C.,
during the Judean Kingdom period.
4) Timna copper camp dated to time of David and Solomon
For several decades, some Bible scholars have suggested that a
lack of convincing archaeological evidence raises doubts about
the significance of the reign of the Old Testament kings David
and Solomon. But the evidence to support a powerful 10th century
B.C. centralized authority based in Jerusalem has been piling
up. This year, archaeologists from Tel Aviv University announced
results on tests of donkey dung discovered at Timna, a site of
ancient copper mines along the Rift Valley in southern Israel.
The animal waste was 3,000 years old, and the donkeys’ diet
indicated that their feed came from near Jerusalem—another
example of centralized power at the time of David and Solomon.
3) Rethinking the identity of Bethsaida
Hometown to three of the apostles (Peter, Andrew, and Philip),
Bethsaida is believed to have been located just east of the
outlet of the Jordan River into the northern Sea of Galilee. But
its precise location has eluded Bible scholars. Archaeologist
Rami Arav of the University of Nebraska–Omaha maintains
Bethsaida was located at et-Tell, a site he has been excavating
since 1987. But its distance—two kilometers from the current
shore of the lake—has always raised questions about that
identification. This year, a team led by archaeologist Mordechai
Aviam of Kinneret College discovered remains of a Roman-era
bathhouse at el-Araj, much closer to the shore. Neither site is
convincingly identified as Bethsaida at this point; other
archaeologists have weighed in to support each side.
2) A relic from the temple that Jesus knew
Solomon’s portico, the double colonnade that surrounded the
temple built by Herod, came into a little sharper focus this
year with the discovery of an ornamental capital from one of the
tops of the columns. Discovered by the Temple Mount Sifting
Project, the capital—an architectural feature which mediates
between a column and the load it bears—indicates that the
41-foot column had a circumference of 30 inches at its top.
Jesus is recorded visiting Solomon’s portico during the Feast of
Dedication (Hanukkah) in John 10:23, and the early church used
it as a meeting place (Acts 3:11, 5:12).
1) Small Roman theater found next to the Temple Mount’s Western
Wall
Although this may not be the Jerusalem Roman theater described
by the Jewish historian Josephus, it is the first example of a
Roman public building discovered in Jerusalem. Its discovery
highlights the centrality of the Temple Mount in Jewish history
and Roman control of the Jewish holy city. The theater was
discovered at the bottom of eight excavated courses of Western
Wall stones, 26 feet below Warrens Arch and the current level of
the Western Wall plaza. Smaller than the typical Roman theaters
seen today at Caesarea and Betshean, this theater could seat
about 200 people. It may have been meant for entertainment, or
perhaps for government meetings. Its date has not been precisely
determined, but IAA archaeologists believe that its construction
was halted before it was finished and put into use—perhaps by
the beginning of the Bar Kochba revolt, about 100 years after
the time of Christ.
Bonus Item: New dating for the tomb of Jesus
A final note on recent news about last year’s top item: The
National Geographic-sponsored renovation of the traditional tomb
of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has
offered new evidence that confirms the tradition linked to the
site. Mortar recovered during last year’s renovation was dated
to as early as A.D. 345, using a scientific process called
optically stimulated luminescence. That supports the traditional
dating of the construction of the first Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, to mark the tomb of Christ, during the reign of the
Roman emperor Constantine.
CT has also compiled the Top 10 biblical archaeology finds of
2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013.
Gordon Govier is editor of ARTIFAX magazine and executive
producer of The Book & The Spade radio program and podcast. He
thanks Todd Bolen, professor of biblical studies at The Master’s
University and editor of Bibleplaces.com, and John DeLancey of
Biblical Israel Ministries and Tours for assisting with this
list, which is subjective and based on news reports rather than
peer-reviewed articles in scholarly publications.
For 2016, CT also compiled the most-read CT articles, news
blogs, persecuted church stories, politics stories, cover
stories, and personal testimonies.
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Below are the top findings from the important excavations taking
place in the lands of the Bible or that have a biblical
connection. (This list is subjective, and based on news reports
rather than peer-reviewed articles in scientific publications.)
10. Ancient papyrus mentions Jerusalem
What appears to be the oldest non-biblical Hebrew-language
reference to Jerusalem was found on a small piece of papyrus
recovered from antiquities robbers who said they had found it in
a cave in the Judean desert. The inscription reads, “From the
king’s maidservant, from Na’arat, jars of wine, to Jerusalem.”
Dated to the seventh century B.C., the inscription was found
four years ago but announced this past October. Only one other
papyrus document from Israel’s First Temple Period has ever been
found. However, some archaeologists and textual scholars have
raised questions about the provenance of the text, and have
suggested that since it was not found in a supervised
excavation, it may be a forgery.
9. Ancient glass factory
Judea was known as one of the centers of glass manufacturing in
the Roman world. Archaeologists excavated the remains of a glass
production facility at the foot of Mt. Carmel, near Haifa, when
it was discovered by workers of the Jezreel Valley Railroad
Project.
8. Sunken junk from Caesarea Maritima
Old metal objects were typically melted and recycled, so a ship
that sank on the way to the recycler offered a treasure trove of
ancient metal objects when its cargo was discovered by scuba
divers last summer. Protected by the sand on the sea bottom for
1,600 years, the mostly bronze objects include idols, lamps, and
several clumps of coins.
7. Solomon's Palace at Gezer
A monumental residence built in the 10th century B.C. and
excavated this past fall has been dubbed “Solomon’s Palace,”
even though there’s no direct connection to the Israelite king
outside of the dating, which was done through pottery remains
and stratigraphic chronology. According to 1 Kings 9:16–17, the
Egyptian pharaoh conquered and burned Gezer, and presented it as
a dowry for his daughter’s marriage to Solomon, who then rebuilt
the city.
6. Hundreds of Roman writing tablets
From the other end of the Roman Empire comes evidence for the
ubiquity of writing in the first century. (Zechariah, the father
of John the Baptist, used a writing tablet in Luke 1:63.) More
than 400 ancient wooden tablets were excavated in London, the
oldest dating to A.D. 57. The tablets were originally covered
with wax and written on with a stylus. The wax is gone, but the
impressions of many notes in Latin remain. They are being
translated and studied.
5. Temple Mount floor designs identified
The geometric patterns of the stone tile floors of the porticos
of the Jewish Temple built by King Herod have been identified
from tile fragments recovered by the Temple Mount Sifting
Project. Volunteers have been steadily processing tons of dirt
illegally excavated from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in 1999. Seven
different tile designs have been recreated so far by Frankie
Snyder, a project team member with an academic background in
mathematics and Judaic studies.
4. Philistine cemetery excavation
Some of the secrets of the Philistines, the nemesis of the
ancient Israelites, are expected to be revealed as
archaeologists study remains excavated from a cemetery at
Ashkelon. The excavations took place over the last three
summers, but were revealed only in 2016. Although most of the
main cities of the Philistines have been excavated, there is
still a lot of important information that has eluded scholars.
But that may change with the new information gleaned from these
burials. “It was just a goldmine of a cemetery,” said Daniel
Master, a Wheaton College professor who co-directs the
excavation.
3. Stone jar factory found near Cana
Halfway between Cana and Nazareth, a cave was discovered where
limestone had been mined and carved into cups, bowls, and jars,
which were highly valued for their ritual purity during the
first century. The cave’s proximity to Cana suggests it may have
been the source of the water jars that were used for the wedding
in Cana attended by Jesus and his disciples in John 2:1–11.
2. Lachish gate shrine illustrates Hezekiah’s reforms
In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish,
the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem,
archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each
corner. They also found a stone toilet that was never used,
which had been placed in the holy of holies, apparently to
desecrate it. They attributed both discoveries to the religious
reforms under King Hezekiah, described in 2 Kings 18:4.
1. Unsealing the tomb of Christ
The most notable aspect of repairs that took place at the
traditional tomb of Christ in October—the first look inside the
tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre since at least the year
1555—is that the workmen found just what they expected. The
badly-in-need-of-repair marble edicule that surrounded the tomb
was stripped down to the limestone platform where the body of
Jesus was believed to have been laid after his crucifixion. “It
appears to be visible proof that the location of the tomb has
not shifted through time, something that scientists and
historians have wondered for decades," said Fredrik Hiebert,
National Geographic’s archaeologist-in-residence. The original
limestone cave walls of the tomb were also preserved to a higher
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CT also compiled the Top 10 biblical archaeology finds of 2015,
2014, and 2013.
For 2016, CT has also compiled the most-read CT articles, news
blogs, persecuted church stories, politics stories, cover
stories, and personal testimonies.
Gordon Govier is editor of ARTIFAX magazine and host of The Book
& The Spade radio program.
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information about biblical events and people.
Below are the top findings from the important excavations taking
place in the lands of the Bible. (This list is subjective, and
based on news reports rather than peer-reviewed articles in
scientific publications.)
10. Beit Shemesh idol head
An Israeli boy enjoying a picnic with his family in mid-November
at the ruins of the biblical city of Beit Shemesh found what
appeared to be the small head of a statue and showed it to an
Israeli tour guide. The guide encouraged the boy to take the
find to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which he did. They
determined it was the head of a fertility goddess, probably
Asherah, dating to the 8th century B.C.
9. Horvat Kur Byzantine menorah mosaic
The 2015 excavation of a Byzantine synagogue at Horvat Kur,
overlooking the Sea of Galilee, revealed a mosaic depicting a
menorah with a unique oil lamp design. This project is one of
several synagogues being excavated near the epicenter of Jesus’
ministry, providing new insights into worship communities in the
centuries after Jesus.
8. The site of Herod's palace
Early in 2015, archaeologists announced the excavations of a
former Turkish prison near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate would be open
to the public via guided tours. The site is believed to have
been the location of Herod's palace 2,000 years ago, and
possibly the site of the trial of Jesus before Pilate.
7. Iron Age gate at Gath
Excavators of Tell es-Safi (the Philistine city of Gath) have
made many discoveries over 20 years of excavations, but in 2015
they found the monumental gate of Gath from the time of Goliath
(its most famous resident). It is one of the largest city gates
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in 2014. Below are the top ten findings of the broad variety of
institutional and salvage excavations taking place in the lands
of the Bible.
10. Tomb of St. Stephen
The tomb of the first Christian martyr may have been located in
an excavation just west of Ramallah. An Orthodox church news
service recently reported that a church complex excavation
revealed an inscription indicating that the church had been
built over the burial site of St. Stephen, who was interred
there in 35 AD. However, the lack of news of this discovery from
other sources raises questions that bear further investigation.
9. Theater of Smyrna [corrected]
Archaeologists in Izmir, Turkey, are currently uncovering the ,
one of the seven cities of Revelation. [Editor's note: Due to a
source error, CT erroneously reported that the theater was the
site where Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of the
Apostle John, was martyred. However, ancient texts indicate that
Polycarp was martyred in the stadium of Smyrna, not the theater.
The location of the stadium of Smyrna is known, but has not been
excavated.]
8. Tablet that said the ark was round
The world's potentially oldest clay tablet containing a flood
story was found in the British Museum archives and put on
display last January. Discovered by the museum's cuneiform
curator, Irving Finkel, the tablet makes note of a round ark and
is one of several versions of the flood story that have been
found in Mesopotamian excavations. Although this tablet from
ancient Babylon, dated around 1750 BC, may be the oldest found
containing the flood story, it's not necessarily the ...
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