Buried Words That Outlasted Empires
In 1979, archaeologist Gabriel Barkay was excavating a burial cave at Ketef Hinnom, overlooking the Valley of Hinnom in Jerusalem. Inside a repository carved from...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Numbers 6:22-27.
In 1979, archaeologist Gabriel Barkay was excavating a burial cave at Ketef Hinnom, overlooking the Valley of Hinnom in Jerusalem. Inside a repository carved from rock, his team discovered two tiny silver scrolls, each no larger than a cigarette. When painstakingly unrolled over three years, the inscriptions stunned the scholarly world. Etched into the silver, dating to the seventh century BC, were the words of Numbers 6:24-26: "The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you."…
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