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The only physical survival of pre-Islamic Persian Bible translations are two fragments of Psalms found by Albert von Le Coq found in the Shui pang monastery north of Bulayiq in 1905. [1] These earliest translations into Persian are in the Pahlavi script .
Replica of bronze sceptre from the Nahal Mishmar hoard (at Hecht Museum, Haifa) Ghassulian ossuary, ca. 3500 BC, Canaan (at the British Museum) The Ghassulian star. Ghassulian refers to a culture and an archaeological stage dating to the Middle and Late Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant (c. 4400 – c. 3500 BC). [1]
The excavation revealed a multiple-chamber structure that had been destroyed by an earthquake during the Persian period, on the wall of which was written a story relating visions of Bal'am, son of Be'or, a "seer of the gods", who may be the same Balaam son of Be'or mentioned in Numbers 22–24 and in other passages of the Bible.
Found at Tell es-Safi, the traditional identification of Gath. Ophel pithos is a 3,000-year-old inscribed fragment of a ceramic jar found near Jerusalem's Temple Mount by archeologist Eilat Mazar. It is the earliest alphabetical inscription found in Jerusalem written in what was probably Proto-Canaanite script. [43]
The ostraca were discovered by British archaeologist James Leslie Starkey in January–February 1935, during the third campaign of the Wellcome excavations. They were published in 1938 by Professor Harry Torczyner (name later changed to Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai ) and have been much studied since then.
A scientist recently discovered a lost fragment of a manuscript representing one of the earliest translations of the Gospels. Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Hidden Chapter in the Bible Skip ...
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