Old Hebrew Discoveries

The first major discovery connecting the Phoenician alphabet and language with Hebrew occurred on January 19th, 1855, when Turkish laborers accidently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus in Sidon, a Phoenician city. On this sarcophagus was a lengthy inscription written in the Phoenician alphabet and language, which was found to be identical to Hebrew with only a few exceptions.

The Meshe stele, also called the Moabite Stone was discovered in 1868 in the Biblical city of Dibon, the capital of the Moabites. The inscription was written with the same letters as the Phoenician, old Hebrew and Samaritan and it was discovered that Moabite language was also the same as Hebrew with some minor variations.

The Siloam Inscription, discovered in 1880, is written on the wall of Hezekiah's tunnel, which connects Gihon spring to the Pool of Siloam in East Jerusalem. This Hebrew inscription was written in the same style as the Phoenician and Moabite inscriptions.

During the excavation of the city of Gezer, 30 miles from Jerusalem, a limestone tablet was discovered in 1908 with a Hebrew inscription written in the old Hebrew alphabet.

In 1935 eighteen ostraca (broken pottery fragments) were discovered in the ancient city of Lachish with Hebrew writing in the old Hebrew alphabet.

In 1966 an inscription was discovered in Amman Jordan with an Ammonite inscription whose alphabet and language was also similar to Phoenician and Hebrew.

The Tel-Dan Stele, discovered in northern Israel in 1993, is an Aramaic inscription using the same old Hebrew script. This inscription includes the phrase beyt david meaning "house of david."

In 2005 archeologists uncovered another Hebrew inscription at Tel-Zayit that turned out to be an abecedery, the entire alphabet written out in its correct order.

As recently as October of 2008 another inscription in Hebrew was found which included such words as judge, slave and king and is to date one of the oldest Hebrew inscriptions ever found.

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Credits

Narrator: Jeff A. Benner

Graphics: Jeff A. Benner

Music: Callen Clark

Footage: Nova (Bible's Buried Secrets), National Geographic (Lost Kings of the Bible), Infolivetv

Photos: Pieter Kuiper, Daniel Wong

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[Jordo713]

Haha come on man you can hit up Google and find hundreds of sites with more than good evidence that the Hebrew history is flawed and also borrowed from previous/contemporary societies. Not all of the bible has a lot of truth but not all of it is true and that has been proven by scientists AND Men of the Cloth. Not believing the bible or popular religions doesn't make you an Athiest either its Agnostic unless you don't believe in a higher being at all...

[ancienthebreworg]

@Jordo713 This video is about Ancient Hebrew inscriptions, not the Bible, so I am a little confused about the purpose of your post.

[palpal2011]

this series is absolutely worth making a professional version, and doing voice dubbing in other languages!! For most of the world don't speak in Hebrew , but if we want to know more accurate the language , and the culture of the Hebrew, that we can understand the Bible better, we've gotta know some facts. your study is valuable to much.

[ancienthebreworg]

@palpal2011 Thank you for the compliment. I have completed the revisions to this video and will be making it available in a DVD shortly. I have considered doing it in other languages, but that will take some time.

[interstellarwonder]

talking rocks

[ancienthebreworg]

@interstellarwonder Yep, that is exactly what they are :-)

[estorpai]

@LaSheuMusic For pays? So paysan them na hebrews.

Cameroun Obosso

[Jordo713]

Sorry I was referring to some previous comments I should have replied to the comments I was talking about but they were numerous and I was using my phone. I have no qualms about the video it was great I love ancient history and the Semetics(Hebrews, Canaanite/phoenician, etc) are my favorite since they were fairly unique. A Key to really understanding a people and their culture is to find and correctly translate the stories and histories they left behind

[RonSafreed]

Hey atheist do you beleive these facts presented in this video, or do you have your "OWN VERSION". since you don't beleive in the ancient Jewish history of the Jews. You say it is "flawed", so what is the truth of ancient Jewish history? Since you see the Bible as a fairy-tale, what is the truth about Jewish history of over 4000 years. Step up to the plate&give your "truthful" version, since you know more than non-atheist scholars.

[peteliuz79]

@palpal2011 I totally agree with you. Somekind of professional "national geographic" style would be awesome with nice graphics, photos etc.

[peteliuz79]

@ancienthebreworg It would be awesome to translate all of your (or at least the most essentials videos) series to Finnish. Your series have been such a blessing! I feel like being home in Avraham's tent when watching your videos.

[timadella]

Shalawm teach Brother