How would you know if ancient Hebrews were "barely literate?" .....Oh, that might be because they have found never found anything really "literate" there perhaps? Think you can get your tiny mind around that? What is called 'Biblical' times, is really the 'Egyptian' times or 'Greek times' or 'Assysrian times' as far as real human history goes. The word biblical is a fantasy word & fantasy concept, Hebrews do not even figure into that ancient milieu, scattered tiny illiterate hill tribes at the very most, not even 'Hebrews', perhaps advanced into the sling shot stage of developement. (who knows or cares really?)
For all that incredible nonsense about Solomon & David's empire, they've found only one clay pot lid with an inscription in some unknown near eastern language dating to that time. Thats one, as in "1" , as in one only or only one, get the picture? This discovery is beyond pitiful, the entire OT is much later tribal propaganzed fiction, never happened, all made up later to impress the Greeks, like little puffed up fish trying to appear larger than they were. The Greeks wouldn't have minded though, they always loved a good BS story, if just for pure entertainment.
This isn't even in Hebrew, just goat herding tribes that later made up the most fantasic bullshit stories the world has ever seen, they definitely had the gift of BS, primitive people's brains tend to get baked in all that sun, poor diets so had wild illiterate fantasies, etc. Greatest BS stories ever sold.
Earliest alphabetical inscription from Biblical times found in Jerusalem
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A 3,000-year-old inscribed piece of an earthenware jug dating back to the time of King David has archaeologists stumped.
The ancient inscription is the earliest alphabetical written text ever found in Jerusalem, according to researchers from Hebrew University who discovered the artifact.
Working near the Temple Mount, head archaeologist Eilat Mazar uncovered the 10th century B.C.E inscription, engraved on a large pithos, a necklace ceramic jar, along with six others at the Ophel excavation site.
The inscription is written in the Canaanite language, a Biblical people who lived in the present-day Israel, and is the only of its kind to be found in Israel. The artifact predates the previously oldest inscription found in the area by 250 years and predates the Biblical Israelites' rule.
Reading from left to right, the text is composed of a combination of letters that translate to m, q, p, h, n, (possibly) l, and n and have no known meaning in west-Semitic languages.
Archaeologist Eilat Mazar shows off her 3,000-year-old Biblical find. (Key to David's City/Youtube)
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A 3,000-year-old inscribed piece of an earthenware jug dating back to the time of King David has archaeologists stumped.
The ancient inscription is the earliest alphabetical written text ever found in Jerusalem, according to researchers from Hebrew University who discovered the artifact.
Working near the Temple Mount, head archaeologist Eilat Mazar uncovered the 10th century B.C.E inscription, engraved on a large pithos, a necklace ceramic jar, along with six others at the Ophel excavation site.
The inscription is written in the Canaanite language, a Biblical people who lived in the present-day Israel, and is the only of its kind to be found in Israel. The artifact predates the previously oldest inscription found in the area by 250 years and predates the Biblical Israelites' rule.
Reading from left to right, the text is composed of a combination of letters that translate to m, q, p, h, n, (possibly) l, and n and have no known meaning in west-Semitic languages.
The meaning of the text remains a mystery but Mazar suspects it relates to the jar's contents or the name of its owner. |
