{"id":59830,"date":"2018-03-13T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59830"},"modified":"2018-03-04T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:47:00","slug":"04-05-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59830","title":{"rendered":"Seal of Prophet Isaiah said found in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>In find of biblical proportions, seal of Prophet Isaiah said found in Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chanced upon near a seal identified with King Hezekiah, a tiny clay piece may be the first-ever proof of the prophet, though a missing letter leaves room for doubt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drawing by Reut Livyatan Ben-Arie of the Isaiah Bulla, a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which potentially belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. (Illustration: Reut Livyatan Ben-Arie\/\u00a9 Eilat Mazar; Photo by Ouria Tadmor\/\u00a9 Eilat Mazar)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The hand of the Prophet Isaiah himself may have created an 8th century BCE seal impression discovered in First Temple remains near Jerusalem\u2019s Temple Mount, according to Hebrew University archaeologist Dr. Eilat<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe appear to have discovered a seal impression, which may have belonged to the prophet Isaiah, in a scientific, archaeological excavation,\u201d said Mazar this week in a press release announcing the breathtaking discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mazar\u2019s team uncovered the minuscule bulla, or seal impression, during renewed excavations at the Ophel, located at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The discovery was published on Wednesday in an article, \u201cIs This the Prophet Isaiah\u2019s Signature?\u201d as part of a massive March-June issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review dedicated to its recently retired founding editor, Hershel Shanks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clay impression is inscribed with letters and what appears to be a grazing doe, \u201ca motif of blessing and protection found in Judah, particularly in Jerusalem,\u201d according to the BAR article.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaiah Bulla, a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which potentially belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. (Ouria Tadmor\/\u00a9 Eilat Mazar)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The oval-shaped bulla, however, is not intact. On its legible portion, there is an inscription with First Temple Hebrew letters that seem to spell out the name l\u2019Yesha\u2019yah[u] (Belonging to Isaiah). On a line below, there is the partial word nvy, which presumably spells out \u201cprophet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the bulla has been slightly damaged at the end of the word nvy, it is not known if it originally ended with the Hebrew letter aleph, which would have resulted in the Hebrew word for \u2018prophet\u2019 and would have definitively identified the seal as the signature of the prophet Isaiah,\u201d Mazar said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Archaeologist Eilat Mazar in the 2018 winter Ophel Excavations in Jerusalem. (YouTube screenshot<\/em><\/span>)<\/p>\n

In the BAR article, Mazar leaves room for the possibility that the inscription on the Isaiah bulla does not refer to the biblical prophet. \u201cWithout an aleph at the end, the word nvy is most likely just a personal name. Although it does not appear in the Bible, it does appear on seals and a seal impression on a jar handle, all from unprovenanced, private collections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe name of Isaiah, however, is clear,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Millennia-old connections between a prophet and his king<\/span>
\n The most well-known of the biblical prophets, Isaiah is thought by scholars to have been active circa in the late 8th century and early 7th century BCE.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Isaiah bulla was discovered in wet-sifted material that was taken from an Iron Age layer close to bedrock that was near a foundation trench cut for a wall of a Herodian vault. The material was found close to a structure that was first discovered in 1986-87 and is today thought to have been a \u201croyal bakery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (courtesy of Andrew Shiva)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It was found only 10 feet away from where in 2015 Mazar\u2019s team discovered an important, intact bulla with the inscription \u201cof King Hezekiah of Judah.\u201d The 12th king of the Kingdom of Judah, King Hezekiah ruled from circa 727 BCE-698 BCE, during the period in which the northern Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 721 BCE. Some 20 years later, Hezekiah successfully fought off the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, in part due to fortifications and a water channel which can still be seen today.<\/span><\/p>\n

A seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed in the Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u2019s Institute of Archaeology (ourtesy of Eilat Mazar; photo by Ouria Tadmor)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Upon the discovery of the Hezekiah bulla in 2015, Mazar called the artifact \u201cthe closest as ever that we can get to something that was most likely held by King Hezekiah himself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This week Mazar said in a press release released by BAR that it is logical that the Isaiah and Hezekiah bullae would be discovered in such close proximity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is the case that this bulla is indeed that of the prophet Isaiah, then it should not come as a surprise to discover this bulla next to one bearing King Hezekiah\u2019s name given the symbiotic relationship of the prophet Isaiah and King Hezekiah described in the Bible,\u201d said Mazar.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are several biblical instances of interactions between Isaiah and Hezekiah which indicate the prophet was a spiritual advisor to the king. He consoled the ruler that the Israelites would survive the siege. In the BAR article, Mazar writes, \u201cThe names of King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah are mentioned in one breath 14 of the 29 times the name of Isaiah is recalled (2 Kings 19\u201320; Isaiah 37\u201339). No other figure was closer to King Hezekiah than the prophet Isaiah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hezekiah and Isaiah…..<\/span><\/p>\n

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