{"id":17515,"date":"2015-02-04T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17515"},"modified":"2015-02-04T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:19:06","slug":"ancient-tablets-disclose-jewish-life-in-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/ancient-tablets-disclose-jewish-life-in-babylon.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ancient tablets disclose Jewish exiles&#8217; life in Babylonia&#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_17516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Bible_Lands_Museum_Jerusalem.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17516\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Bible_Lands_Museum_Jerusalem-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jerusalem's Bible Lands Museum\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bible Lands Museum, in Jerusalem, is directly adjacent to the perhaps better known Israel Museum, where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls are (more or less) on display.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An article from the English edition of the Israeli newspaper <em>Haaretz<\/em> about what some have called the most important find of ancient Jewish documents since the Dead Sea Scrolls:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/life\/archaeology\/.premium-1.639822\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/life\/archaeology\/.premium-1.639822<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t irrelevant, I think, to certain current discussions about the relationship between the Bible and history.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charles Steinman brought this to my notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 An article from the English edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about what some have called the most important find of ancient Jewish documents since the Dead Sea Scrolls: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/life\/archaeology\/.premium-1.639822 \u00a0 They aren\u2019t irrelevant, I think, to certain current discussions about the relationship between the Bible and history. \u00a0 Charles Steinman brought [&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-17515","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;Ancient tablets disclose Jewish exiles&#039; 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