{"id":1269,"date":"2010-11-29T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/11\/name-that-ancient-object.html"},"modified":"2010-11-29T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T08:30:44","slug":"name-that-ancient-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/11\/name-that-ancient-object.html","title":{"rendered":"Name That Ancient Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/IMAG0076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"296\" alt=\"IMAG0076.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/IMAG0076-thumb-500x296-19728.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/IMAG0077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"296\" alt=\"IMAG0077.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/IMAG0077-thumb-500x296-19730.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/IMAG0079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"842\" alt=\"IMAG0079.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/IMAG0079-thumb-500x842-19732.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/IMAG0078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"296\" alt=\"IMAG0078.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/IMAG0078-thumb-500x296-19734.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are four shots of an ancient object I bought from an antiquities dealer in Jerusalem some years ago.&nbsp; The first person to correctly identify this object wins a free copy of my recent book on Revelation.&nbsp;&nbsp; The winner will need to send a mailing envelope big enough for a small thin book, self-addressed and stamped to me at Asbury Theological Seminary, N. 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