{"id":17142,"date":"2015-01-22T10:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17142"},"modified":"2015-01-22T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:44:02","slug":"hebrew-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/hebrew-inscriptions.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hebrew Inscriptions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17143\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/450px-Silwan-inscr.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17143\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/450px-Silwan-inscr.jpg\" alt=\"One of the treasures found at Sillwan\" width=\"450\" height=\"135\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seventh-century BC \u201cShebna inscription,\u201d aka the \u201cSilwan inscription\u201d (\u201cSilwan\u201d = biblical \u201cSiloam\u201d), found very near the Old City of Jerusalem, now in the British Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Gee weighs in, yet again, on the general topic of history and the Hebrew scriptures, which has been a matter of controversy online over the past few weeks:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.com\/2015_01_01_archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.com\/2015_01_01_archive.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a discussion that I\u2019ve proposed continue\u00a0directly between the three main interlocutors, so that corrections might be made, positions clarified, implications teased out, viewpoints refined, and the air cleared. \u00a0I think that would be very useful. \u00a0There are significant issues involved. \u00a0Unfortunately, not everybody is willing to engage in such direct conversation at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 John Gee weighs in, yet again, on the general topic of history and the Hebrew scriptures, which has been a matter of controversy online over the past few weeks: \u00a0 http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.com\/2015_01_01_archive.html \u00a0 It\u2019s a discussion that I\u2019ve proposed continue\u00a0directly between the three main interlocutors, so that corrections might be made, positions clarified, implications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Hebrew Inscriptions&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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