Subject: [b-hebrew] Bible texts on silver amulets dated to First Temple period
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:57:21 EDT
Bible texts on silver amulets dated to First Temple period
By Amiram Barkat
U.S. and Israeli researchers claim to have discovered proof that the Five
Books of Moses were in existence during the First Temple period.
The findings are based on new laboratory techniques used to date two small
silver amulets, inscribed in ancient Hebrew and discovered in a burial cave
in
Jerusalem in 1979. Published last week in a scientific journal in the United
States, the results were reported extensively in The New York Times yesterday.