Oldest known carved tablet with the 10 commands (well 9 anyway) up for auction
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Original may have been 1600 BC. This was written 'only' 2000 years or so later. So pretty much like if I had a reproduction of the crown of thorns from Jesus, made in 2024. How much will that be worth?
Well a banana with duct tape just sold for $6.2 million, and the buyer ate it.
It was a new copy of one that was sold in 2019 for $120,000.
Ha! Crazy world we live in.
Makes sense when you learn it's not about the art but laundering money
Like how they traffic “live art”? These people are SICK.
I can see billionaire Christians bidding that artifacts up into the tens of millions of dollars to keep the average Joe away from it. But, it's a free country.
Also - yes I realize I messed up the title (commands vs. commandments). I need to replace my trackpad again on my laptop. I'll type something and all of a sudden the cursor highlights some text and jumps to somewhere else. Or if it doesn't jump, the highlighted part is replaced by whatever I type next. I actually need a new laptop since I got this one in 2018 and can't get good parts for it anymore.
In the mean time I really need to re-read what I type. Doh!
They're not called "Commandment" in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin. "Commandments" is a word the English ascribed to the verses or saying.
They’re literally called the “Ten Words”.
They had the printer set to use both sides of the page, but only the first side came out before the printer broke down. 😀
I think it was more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ihcq4hzR4
I remember that one, based on current events it's likely to have been closer to 17 anyway. 😀
Running a stone tablet through the printer will tend to do that.
Two links for this one:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-ancient-tablet-inscribed-with-nine-of-the-ten-commandments-from-the-book-of-exodus-is-for-sale-180985473/
and
https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/the-ten-commandments
The links explain that one of the commandments "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain" was replaced with a new directive – to worship on Mount Gerizim, a holy site specific to the Samaritans.
Anyone got a spare million or 2 dollars?
Yeah the tablet wasn't one of the originals, but having that would be incredible.
It does also show how the written word of the Bible can and has changed over the years. Can you imagine removing one of God's commandments to (for example) advertise a local restaurant for Sunday lunch?
Key point that most miss.
Quote: "which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E." So, the woke author doesn't even acknowledge the historical existence of Jesus.
Yeah I caught that one. It didn't surprise me at all.