Below is a news story about a new (and old I suppose) archeological discovery in Israel. Apparently some very ancient paleo-Hebrew writings have been found on a shard of pottery. There’s nothing particularly new about finding Hebrew writings from the biblical period on what has been called “ostraca,” which are just pottery fragments used as writing material. What’s wholly different, however, about this new finding is that biblical scholars, philologists, and ancient near eastern archeologists maintain that these writings are from the 10th Century B.C.!!! That probably doesn’t mean much to the everyday Joe but it is indeed a breathtaking and shocking discovery and will revolutionize the way we view the Old Testament texts from the Bible and also their veracity.

Here’s the story link and below is a video with some brief highlights. By the way, for you Hebrew scholars with only two years of Hebrew language graduate classes like me, you unfortunately wont be able to translate the writings because—again they’re consonant form is in paleo-Hebrew and there are definitely no vowel marks like in your Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia! LOL. Here’s to the veracity and antiquity of the Old Testament; and don’t forget to read your Bible…