UPDATE: See the latest updates about this discovery at Jordanian Lead Plates: Authentic or Forgery? – A few days ago we wrote about an interesting discovery of ancient sealed metal plates that were found within the last few years in Jordan, and are starting to create a stir among archeologists. The BBC News religious affairs [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged collection, early christian, holy of holies, jerusalem, Jewish, margaret barker, origin, photos, sealed, symbols, worthiness
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November 14, 2008 – 4:54 pm
Grandpa Enoch once again points us to some great material, a video showing how Solomon’s Temple may have looked originally. The below video is a short behind the scenes of a 2-hour Nova program that will air on Tuesday, November 18th, on PBS entitled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets.” Looks like it will be an interesting [...]
October 22, 2008 – 3:33 pm
Grandpa Enoch over at Pronaos wrote a few days ago that Archaeology Magazine‘s latest issue has a cover article by Sandra Scham entitled “The World’s First Temple”. The magazine Science also did an article on the same subject back in January 2008. There are many articles that are being published, all focused on one archeological [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged bible, book, civilization, garden of eden, Göbekli Tepe, holy place, hugh nibley, jacob, matthew brown, mountain, neolithic, rituals, sacrifice, scholar, symbols, terrible questions, video
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I came across some references to early Christian ritual vestments this morning in Matthew Brown’s The Gate of Heaven. He cited The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation by Edward Yarnold, and The Archæology of Baptism by Wolfred N. Cote. I looked up these references and they were intriguing in describing an early Christian practice of face [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged baptism, cap, cyril of jerusalem, early christian, initiate, matthew brown, priesthood, rituals, satan, symbols, veil
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An ancient cave discovered under one of the world’s oldest churches in Rihab, Jordan, may be a site of the earliest Christian worship to ever be found. Archaeologists have dated the cave to between 33 A.D. and 70 A.D. The Associated Press reports that the Rihab Center for Archaeological Studies says that this cave “shows [...]
