RE: The Tel Dan Inscription
January 20, 2012 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2012 at 7:05 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(January 20, 2012 at 5:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Be my guest, mon ami.
(I speak French whenever possible because it annoys the shit out of the tea-bagging morons running around this country unsupervised!)
d'accord.
Min
What is your opinion of this?:
Quote:--- a new publication by Egyptologists and Biblical scholars Manfred Görg, Peter van der Veen and Christoffer Theis suggests that there may be an even earlier reference to Israel in the Egyptian record. Manfred Görg discovered a broken statue pedestal containing hieroglyphic name-rings in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin and, after studying it with colleagues Peter van der Veen and Christoffer Theis, they suggest that one of the name-rings should be read as “Israel.” Not all scholars agree with their reading because of slight differences in spelling, but Görg, van der Veen and Theis offer strong arguments, including supportive parallels in the Merneptah Stele itself. This newly rediscovered inscription is dated to around 1400 B.C.E.—about 200 years earlier than the Merneptah Stele. If Görg, van der Veen and Theis are right, their discovery will shed important light on the beginnings of ancient Israel.[quote]
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily...of-israel/
