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Archaeologists uncover early depiction of menorah

by Barry ORegan | September 11, 2009 at 08:35 pm

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Unearthing a 2,000 year old Menorah in the Sea of Galilee will certainly lay claim Israel was around at the beginning of AD. Certainly will pee o those who state Israel has no claim to Israel.

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday.

The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue recently discovered by the Sea of Galilee.

Pottery, coins and tools found at the site indicate the synagogue dates to the period of the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem, where the actual menorah was kept, said archaeologist Dina Avshalom-Gorni of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The artist might have seen the menorah during a pilgrimage and then recreated it in the synagogue, she suggested.

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at 08:33 on September 12th, 2009

This is an interesting concept. I imagine that if we dig deep enough, we might discover none of us really own or have the rights to the land we inhabit. Here in the U.S., we should be giving all the land back to the native inhabitants of the Americas.

Alas, it is a troubling thought. I own my house, but I can never own the land because it was originally stolen from the people who originally lived here.

Barry ORegan

at 07:25 on September 13th, 2009

Same here in Canada when we think we own our own property only to find we own it at the Queen of Englands pleasure, (an archaic law which would never be enforced) but then the Queen ancestors and French King Louis at the time scammed it off the First Nations.