A
human foot and 86 tortoise shells were just some of the extraordinary finds
discovered in the prehistoric grave of a female shaman in the Galilee, in
northern Israel, dating back some 12,000 years. Also found in what
archaeologists suspect was the burial site of a female shaman, who was living
in a hunter-gatherer society, were an eagle’s wing, a leopard’s pelvic bone,
the leg of a pig, and tailbone from a cow, and much more. The elaborate rituals
revealed by the excavation at Hilazon Tachtit were unexpected in such a
presumably primitive culture. See pictures and read complete article at -- http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.728880
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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