A Katy archaeologist found an ancient tablet with a Hebrew curse. It could rewrite history.
Courtesy of Dr. Scott StriplingCORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the discovery by Stripling's team could be proof of the true time period of the biblical exodus. It has been corrected to read that the discovery could be proof of the true age of the Bible itself.
Separately, some historians say that the Bible, including the Book of Exodus, which details the Israelites' flight from Egypt, was written somewhere between 600 B.C. and 300 B.C., during what are known as the Persian period and Hellenistic period, respectively. The tablet discovered by Stripling’s team was written about 1500 B.C., which would be proof that the Hebrews were writing in the same stylistic and linguistic manners in which the Bible was written.
“One can no longer argue with a straight face that the biblical text was not written until the Persian period or the Hellenistic period as many higher critics have done, when here we do clearly have the ability to write the entire text at a much, much earlier date,” Stripling said. The tablet’s author would have been a highly educated male religious leader, said Dr. Gershon Galil, a professor of biblical studies from the University of Haifa. “It is clear that the person who wrote this was a genius,” Galil noted. “He was not only a scribe, he was a theologian. He was a leader.”
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