By Dawn Cherie Araujo (news@gospelherald.com
A Jewish history scholar believes he has decoded the eight letters thought to be the most ancient Hebrew inscription to come out of Jerusalem. Gershon Galil, a Jewish history professor at the University of Haifa, says the letters appear on a wine jug and the inscription tells what type of wine it contained: cheap wine for slaves. "This wine was not served on the table of King Solomon nor in the Temple," Galil wrote in the journal New Studies on Jerusalem. "Rather it was probably used by the many forced laborers in the building projects and the soldiers that guarded them."
He notes this proves the biblical account of Jerusalem as a sophisticated and powerful city, which some scholars have denied. "The ability to write and store the wine in a large vessel designated for this purpose, while noting the type of wine, the date it was received, and the place it was sent from, attests to the existence of an organized administration that collected taxes, recruited laborers, brought them to Jerusalem, and took care to give them food and water," he wrote.
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A Jewish history scholar believes he has decoded the eight letters thought to be the most ancient Hebrew inscription to come out of Jerusalem. Gershon Galil, a Jewish history professor at the University of Haifa, says the letters appear on a wine jug and the inscription tells what type of wine it contained: cheap wine for slaves. "This wine was not served on the table of King Solomon nor in the Temple," Galil wrote in the journal New Studies on Jerusalem. "Rather it was probably used by the many forced laborers in the building projects and the soldiers that guarded them."
He notes this proves the biblical account of Jerusalem as a sophisticated and powerful city, which some scholars have denied. "The ability to write and store the wine in a large vessel designated for this purpose, while noting the type of wine, the date it was received, and the place it was sent from, attests to the existence of an organized administration that collected taxes, recruited laborers, brought them to Jerusalem, and took care to give them food and water," he wrote.
- See more at: http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/50301/20140131/professor-s-discovery-may-prove-biblical-account-of-jerusalem.htm#sthash.PcIDWOzw.dpuf
