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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Good point!

Yigal
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
To: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>; "Dave Washburn"
<dwashbur AT nyx.net>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Josiah's book of the Law


> Well, proving that documents were often buried with cornerstones doesn't
> prove that this is where the book Josiah found came from!
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, Texas
> villandra AT austin.rr.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
> To: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
> Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Josiah's book of the Law
>
>
> > Excellent research!
> > This would show that the Torah was in its canonical form when Solomon
> built
> > the temple.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Dave Washburn
> > Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 4:09 PM
> > To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: [b-hebrew] Josiah's book of the Law
> >
> > The recent discussion that included Josiah and the discovery during his
> day
> > triggered a memory of something I read a long time ago, and I want to
toss
> it
> > out for discussion if nobody minds.
> >
> > Merrill F. Unger, in his book "Archaeology and the Old Testament" (Grand
> > Rapids: Zondervan, 1954) p. 281 says in part that "it was customary in
> > ancient times to place documents in the foundations of buildings as is
> done
> > even to the present day [1954, at least]."  He suggests that the Book of
> the
> > Law that Josiah's priests discovered had been placed in the cornerstone
of
> > the Temple by Solomon, and that during the extensive repairs to the
Temple
> > that Josiah directed, the stone masons and carpenters came across this
> > deposit and reported it to the priests.  Hence the rediscovery of the
Book
> of
> > the Law.  Unger also notes that Nabonidus, around the 6th century BC
(BCE
> if
> > you prefer) liked to dig into foundations of buildings to see what sorts
> of
> > documents were cached away therein.
> >
> > I'm wondering what folks here think of this idea as an explanation of
the
> > discovery during Josiah's reign.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Washburn
> > http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
> > "Well, if I'd wanted a safe life, I guess I wouldn't have
> > married a man who studies rocks." - Betty Armstrong (Fay Masterson)
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