Monday, November 24, 2008

History of Jerusalem

The veracity of the Bible is a political as well as religious question and, as such, has been caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Palestinians assert that the Jews never lived in Palestine, and that the Bible is fantasy, not history.

Recent archaelogical finds dispute this assertion, in one case uncovering Herod's tomb, in the other what may be King David's palace. Take a look at the evidence and decide for yourself. What I found most intriguing was the discovery of seals belonging to high officials named in the Bible at the time when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians.

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