Danish archaeologists doing a survey ahead of
the construction of the Femern Belt link scheme, an immersed tunnel that will
connect the German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland, have
found a 5,500-year old-ceramic vessel bearing the fingerprint of the artisan
who made it. The vessel is known with the name “funnel beaker,” a kind of
ceramics which features a flat bottom with a funnel shaped neck. Such
earthenware is characteristic of the Funnel Beaker Culture (4000 – 2800 B.C.),
which represents the first farmers in Scandinavia and the north European plain.
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The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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