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Articles: Devotion | Archeological Evidence
- Mrs. Sravani Suresh Anand
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Then, a simple archeological discovery interrupted their progress. The 'black stele' - a sculpted stone containing the detailed laws of Hammurabi in large, wedge-shaped characters - was found in the Middle East. Was it post- Moses? No! It was pre-Mosaic by at least three centuries; not only that, but it was pre-Abraham (2,000 B.C.). Amazingly enough, it antedated Moses, who was supposed to have been a primitive man without an alphabet.
Even more amazing is the fact that, in light of this discovery, the 'Documentary Hypothesis' is still being taught in universities today.
Another archaeological find that confirms the existence of writing centuries before the time of Moses is the discovery of the Ebla Tablets in northern Syria in the 1960's. The Ebla kingdom was actually in existence approximately 1000 years before Moses (reaching its height around 2300 B.C.). Ebla shows that a thousand years before Moses, laws, customs and events were recorded in writing in the same area of the world in which Moses and the patriarchs lived.
David's Conquest of Jerusalem
S.H. Horn, an archaeologist, gives an excellent example of how archaeological evidence helps in biblical study:
Archaeological explorations have shed some interesting light on the capture of Jerusalem by David . The biblical accounts of that capture (2 Samuel 5:6-8 and I Chronicles 11:6) are rather obscure without the help obtained from archaeological evidence. Take for example 2 Samuel 5:8, which in the King James Version reads: 'And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, so shall be chief and captain.' Add to this statement I Chronicles 11:6 --'So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up and was chief.'
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