{"id":54787,"date":"2017-08-15T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=54787"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T04:54:04","slug":"15-00-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=54787","title":{"rendered":"Researcher gives seal of approval to 53 biblical characters\u2019 existence"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Researcher gives seal of approval to 53 biblical characters\u2019 existence<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

RICH TENORIO<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lawrence Mykytiuk looks for ancient personalities who have made an impression \u2014 be it on a signet ring or a monument<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biblical characters that Lawrence Mykytiuk claims to have verified. Clockwise, from left: Sargon II; Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon; a relief of King Sennacherib from his palace in Nineveh; Tiglath-pileser III from the palace at Nimrud. (Public domain)<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to a researcher\u2019s unique system, 53 individuals in the Hebrew Bible have been proven as genuine historical characters through material evidence of their existence. The system\u2019s creator, Lawrence Mykytiuk, an associate professor of library science at Purdue University, calls it \u201ca way to develop historicity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It sounds like an unlikely project: a professor in the Midwest verifying ancient names from the Mideast. Yet Mykytiuk\u2019s training as a librarian and interest in the Bible help him do what he says on-the-scene archaeologists are too busy to \u2014 pore through journals and books, scrutinize inscriptions discovered on digs and attempt to match names in the historical record with names in the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mykytiuk\u2019s system relies on three criteria: A biblical name must match the name on an authentic inscription, with no possibility of a forgery (thus ruling out items from the antiquities market, he said). The names \u2014 in the Bible and on the inscription \u2014 must match in terms of setting and time period. And, in perhaps the most exacting category, Mykytiuk looks for matches of at least three specific details identifying an individual, such as name, father\u2019s name and title.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence Mykytiuk identifies ancient Biblical characters through their personal seals. (Courtesy)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it matches the same three mentions in Scripture, it\u2019s a virtual certainty,\u201d Mykytiuk said. \u201cThere might be a few people with the same name, father\u2019s name,\u201d he added, \u201cbut same title? That\u2019s stretching it. I consider it a virtual certainty, either a dead ringer or virtual certainty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He does note in a PowerPoint presentation, however, that verifications of biblical names do not guarantee verifications of biblical events involving these individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Developed over 25 years, Mykytiuk\u2019s system is arguably successful. Studying 94 inscriptions, he has verified kings, pharaohs, high priests and scribes, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the names are male, although he said he is \u201choping to identify a woman from an inscription. Not yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Verified characters include eight kings of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and six from the Southern Kingdom of Judah. One is King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, who fought in the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BCE \u2014 an event that eagle-eyed Mykytiuk noted in both the Book of Kings and on an image of the Kurkh Monolith.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was only one Israelite king at a time who could have fought [in the battle],\u201d Mykytiuk said. \u201cBingo. There was a match between the inscription and the Bible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mykytiuk\u2019s oldest verification is another sovereign \u2014 King David himself, from 1000 BCE. He found a match between the protagonist of Samuel I and the \u201cHouse of David\u201d wall inscription at the Tel Dan excavations in northern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018King of Israel\u2019 was in one line,\u201d Mykytiuk said. \u201cThe next line read \u2018Melech Beit David.\u2019 It was in Aramaic, by the enemies, the Arameans, who conquered Tel Dan and indicated a victory monument, a stele, a big sign in stone. The Israelites reconquered it, and smashed [the stele] to pieces that they used to make a wall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

read more: Researcher gives seal…<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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