The
oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the
Egyptian museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70
years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000
BCE), the roll measures about 8.2 feet long and is filled with texts and
colorful drawings of the finest quality. Basically a portable religious
manuscript, the more than 4,000-year-old roll, contains depictions of divine
and supernatural beings which predate the famous drawings found in the Book of
the Dead manuscripts and the so-called Netherworld Books from the New Kingdom
onwards (1550 BCE onwards). See pictures and read the complete article at -- http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/oldest-and-longest-ancient-egyptian-leather-manuscript-found-150914.htm
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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