ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

Wednesday, January 4, 2012


Miriam had a document given to her brother in law Absalom, from her deceased husband.  The contract was called ketuba and gave her no other claims to the property of Absalom.  Jac(ob) son of Joseph, the scribe signature was at the end of the document. The ketuba is mixed with 2 languages Aramaic and Hebrew. It was dated for four years after the revolt of Bar-Kokhba.
 
This document was discovered near the Dead Sea scrolls in the Judean Desert. No one is sure how this document came about possibly confiscated from the Antiquity Authority. “Year 3 of Redemption of Israel" is rarely found on coins during the Byzantine period (fourth-seventh centuries). The document attested to the fact that is was received by Miriam.
 
The coins were customarily encrypted with the disaster that ended the period so we are able to learn about the era by discovering and studying the coins.  At the end of the second revolt won by the Romans Jerusalem changed the city's name to Aelia Capitolina.


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Monday, January 2, 2012

January 1 and 2nd


Genesis 47:13 - 50:26
Exodus 1:1-4:17


Shows How Years Were Dated By Ancient Jews


There were two revolts one named Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132-135 C.E.) which lasted only two-and-a half years.  This  uprise happened 60 years later after the Romans won the uprise.  There was one town named Masada (Masada (Hebrew מצדה, pronounced  Metzada (help·info), from מצודה, metzuda, "fortress" which is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea). Masada is best known for the violence that occurred there in the first century CE. In the final accords of the First Jewish–Roman War, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire led to the mass suicide of the Sicarii rebels.   
The coins found which were created during this revolt are rarer the fifth year of the revolt. The destruction of the temple  happened   during the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. The  first 4 years of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-70 C.E.) .  Was during this time that Jews started minting there own coins. The Coins bore "Jerusalem the Holy" or" Freedom of Zion.".    Coins encrypted with the "Year 1 of the Redemption of Israel", Year 2 of the Freedom of israel" and very limited coins bear the legend  "Year 3 of the Redemption  of Israel"

More on this article on Wednesday January 4, 2012 



Saturday, December 31, 2011

December 31, 2011


1Chronicles 4:1-23
Genesis 46:13
1 Chronicles 7:1-5
Genesis 46:14-18
1 Chronicles 7:30-40
Genesis 46:19-25
1Chronicles 7:6-12
Genesis 46:26-47:12