{"id":5241,"date":"2010-01-15T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/ancient-hebrew-text-deciphered.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:28:11","slug":"ancient-hebrew-text-deciphered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/ancient-hebrew-text-deciphered.html","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Hebrew Text Deciphered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Shard-10675.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Shard-thumb-333x261-10675.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"261\" alt=\"Shard.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1262339428603&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter\"><b>A link sent to me by a reader<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough in the research of the Bible has shed new light on the period in which the Bible could have been written, testifying to Hebrew writing abilities as early as the 10th century BCE, the University of Haifa announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gershon Galil of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa recently deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE, and showed that it was a Hebrew inscription, making it the earliest known Hebrew writing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The deciphered text: 1 you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].<\/p>\n<p>2 Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] \/ Judge the orph[an]<\/p>\n<p>3 [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant \/ plead for the po[or and]<\/p>\n<p>4 the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.<\/p>\n<p>5 Protect the po[or and] the slave \/ [supp]ort the stranger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A link sent to me by a reader: A breakthrough in the research of the Bible has shed new light on the period in which the Bible could have been written, testifying to Hebrew writing abilities as early as the 10th century BCE, the University of Haifa announced on Thursday. 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