Further Evidence for the Bible | 27th May 2010

On the site of what is to be a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. The site in the area of Migdal, where Mary Magdalene was born, is believed to date back 2000 years from around 50BC to 100AD.

Secular archaeology has for years suggested that parts of the New Testament story of Jesus had little scientific support. In our last edition we carried the story of the discovery of a house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus, when archaeologists were denying that Nazareth was even inhabited in Jesus’ time. This new discovery points to a synagogue in which Jesus almost certainly taught.

The excavations were directed by archaeologists Dina Avshalom- Gorni and Arfan Najar of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The main hall of the synagogue is c. 120 square meters in area. Its floor was made of mosaic and its walls were treated with coloured plaster (frescos). A square stone, engraved with a seven-branched menorah was set atop a pedestal with a triangular base, which is flanked on either side by jars. Minister of Culture and Sport, MK Limor Livnat, said, “This important find attests to the extensive Jewish settlement in the northern region at the time of the Second Temple.”

Source: Revival Media

BIBLE STUDY: Deuteronomy 4:39-40

PRAISE: God for the increasing scientific finds that make it harder for doubters to deny the Bible.

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Further Evidence for the Bible | 27th April 2010

On the site of what is to be a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. The site in the area of Migdal, where Mary Magdalene was born, is believed to date back 2000 years from around 50BC to 100AD.

Secular archaeology has for years suggested that parts of the New Testament story of Jesus had little scientific support. In our last edition we carried the story of the discovery of a house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus, when archaeologists were denying that Nazareth was even inhabited in Jesus’ time. This new discovery points to a synagogue in which Jesus almost certainly taught.

The excavations were directed by archaeologists Dina Avshalom- Gorni and Arfan Najar of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The main hall of the synagogue is c. 120 square meters in area. Its floor was made of mosaic and its walls were treated with coloured plaster (frescos). A square stone, engraved with a seven-branched menorah was set atop a pedestal with a triangular base, which is flanked on either side by jars. Minister of Culture and Sport, MK Limor Livnat, said, “This important find attests to the extensive Jewish settlement in the northern region at the time of the Second Temple.”

Source: Revival Media

BIBLE STUDY: Deuteronomy 4:39-40

PRAISE: God for the increasing scientific finds that make it harder for doubters to deny the Bible.

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Story Links:

Hadron Collider:

independent.co.uk God’s own particle?

Hadron Collider UK site

eauk.org  The Big Bang

Tuvalu sinking:

inspiremagazine.org.uk  “Don’t give up on Tuvalu”

tuvaluislands.com official site

Theo Walcott:

telegraph.co.uk  David Beckham ready to step aside

skysports.com  Theo Walcott