U.S. Archeologist Corroborates Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu's Historical Chronology

In our Historical Museum & Chronology of the Tan"kh from the “Big Stretch-Apart”

Pâ•qidꞋ  Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋ u

"Los Angeles – Few academic disputes are fiercer than among biblical archeologists and Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land [scheduled to air 2004.11.23] is bound to raise the tone of the arguments a few more octaves." In this NOVA TV documentary, Richard Freund, director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, challenges some of the earlier conclusions of the original archeologist of Qum•rânꞋ, Yi•gâ•eilꞋ Yâd•inꞋ.

"Freund’s most controversial conclusion is that ritual bronze vessels, found by Yâd•inꞋ in the so-called Cave of Letters, were used in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, and may be its only surviving items. Yâd•inꞋ, who had discovered them in 1960, believed that the vessels, decorated with a sea goddess and other Roman mythological figures, had been stolen from the Romans… Freund’s conclusions point to an intermingling of [Hellenist] Roman and Jewish cultures, even in Judaism’s holiest site…" The only basis for opposition to this theory, espoused almost exclusively by Jews, is articulated by "Dead Sea Scrolls expert" Lawrence Schiffman of New York University: "I cannot believe that the priests allowed Roman mythological figures on Jewish religious objects." Not exactly scientific, logical, scholarly or indicative of this Medieval-mindset, Ultra-Orthodox "Dead Sea Scrolls expert."

Blatant Hellenism of "Sadducee Priests" in Second "Temple"

Freund may not be aware, and certainly Schiffman & Co. don't realize, the well-documented pre-KhaꞋnukh•âh history in our Calendar page, which exposes the blatant and outrageous Hellenism of the Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ Ko•han•eiꞋ hâ-RëshꞋa ("Wicked Priests"), so labeled by the MorꞋi TzëdꞋëq of the legitimate Qum•rânꞋ עוֹשִׂין (Hellenized to "Essene") Ko•han•imꞋ whom they had usurped, in their Hellenization of the Second "Temple." It would be astonishing had their "Temple" not reflected their blatant Hellenism!

RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa Crucified As Threat To Hellenism of Roman Occupiers & Sadducee Collaborators

It was primarily against these hypocritical Hellenist "priests" that RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa railed, and because of the enmity against Romans he thereby inspired, these Roman-sympathizing Hellenist "priests," against the will of the mainstream Pharisees who hated Hellenism (and continued to defend Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, who were also Pharisees, in Roman courts), covertly convicted him and the Romans then executed him.

This finally pieces the historical puzzle together, explaining why RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa was executed, by whom and why – and in a historically accurate and truthful way that both Jews and Christians should be able to understand, accept and live with. To assert that these outrageously Hellenist "priests" wouldn’t have decorated their "Temple" vessels with Hellenist depictions is self-defeating as well as shattering credulity.

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