Interesting Find in Israel

[Minimalist]

and an even more interesting article in the Jerusalem Post.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Cultur ... esh-435329


I'm glad for the kid - must be a great thrill to make such a find - but this

Alon de Groot, an IAA expert on the Iron Age, identified the finding as the head of a sculpture of a fertility goddess.

"Figurines of this kind, depicting naked women which symbolize fertility, were common in the homes of residents of the Kingdom of Judah from the eighth century BCE until the destruction of the Kingdom by the Babylonians in the days of Zedekiah (586 BCE)," he said.

is a surprising admission. Kind of blows their whole monotheistic jews from the start horseshit out the window!

[Simon21]

Unfortunately archaeology in Israel has been deeply compromised by far right PC in which the events mentioned in the Torah are taken as fact.

Modern ethnic politics are all important and any interpretations that gainsay them are not permitted. The JP is quite notorious for this.

[Minimalist]

Hey, guy, welcome.

Yeah, which is what makes it all the more surprising that they would make that comment in so cavalier a fashion. I'd have expected that from Haaretz.

The right can not have been happy with William Dever's "Did God Have A Wife" when he showed the widespread usage of such figurines during the alleged "first-temple" period.