Sunday, November 13, 2005

NO NEW JEHOASH TABLET: For the record, since this may be causing some confusion, there is not a new Jehoash tablet find. This Ha'aretz article apparently reappeared on Google briefly and was noted in the latest Explorator. The information is about the Jehoash tablet that was in the news a couple of years ago and which is now widely agreed to be a forgery. The article is old, long out of date, and now inaccurate. Unfortunately, Ha'aretz seems not to keep original dates on its archived articles, which is very confusing. But this Telegraph piece links to the Ha'aretz article (under "External Links" to the right) and dates it to 17 January 2003.

Had there been a new Jehoash inscription found, there would have been a great kerfluffle.

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