Friday, January 8, 2010

Oldest Hebrew Inscription Found

An Israeli professor says he may have found proof that older parts of the Bible were written hundreds of years before many people believe they could have been written. Gershon Galil with the University of Haifa points to an inscription on a piece of pottery from an excavation about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. Galil says the inscription is a statement about slaves, widows and orphans. Carbon-dating puts it's origins at about the 10th century BC, making it the earliest example of Hebrew writing we have today. Some scholars say parts of the Bible could not have been written that long ago because the Hebrew language did not exist at that time. But, according to Galil, the inscription suggests otherwise.

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