In
1999, thousands of year’s worth of fragile and irreplaceable Jewish
archaeological antiquities were surreptitiously and violently dug up by Arab
bulldozers at Judaism’s holiest site, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, to build an
entrance to a subterranean mosque. The resulting thousands of tons of invaluable
debris – believed to contain over 1 million artifacts dating back to the First
Temple period – were then carted off in dump trunks and discarded like garbage
to a nearby landfill in Jerusalem’s Kidron Valley. The Temple Mount Sifting
Project, now in its 10th year, has uncovered hundreds of thousands of
invaluable antiquities from tons of ancient debris discarded like trash from
Judaism’s holiest site. Read the complete article at -- http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Jewish-historys-greatest-archaeological-crime-419231
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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