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Contents:
1. Reversal of POLES in Biblical Times.
2. Copper Mines in the Arabah, southern Judah
Was Shishak's Biblical Campaign About Copper? by Nathan Steinmeyer
3. The Story of the Star of David
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1. Reversal of POLES in Biblical Times.
Chapter 17. Pole Tilting
https://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/ebooks/MoreThings/pages/Chapter_17.html
Extract:
... Journal of Physics, in October 1978, there appeared a paper by physicist Peter Warlow which sought to prove that pole tilting, and even total 'flips', were not as impossible as most scientists deemed them to be.
Mr Warlow' paper was ostensibly an attempt to explain the phenomenon of geomagnetic reversal. This requires some explanation. To all intents and purposes the Earth acts as if it has a giant bar magnet embedded in its interior, one benefit of which is that navigators are able to use their magnetic compasses to find their way about. However, geological studies of rocks show that several times in the Earth's history the polarity of that hypothetical bar magnet has become reversed, with north and south switching roles. To date, no-one has confidently explained how such magnetic reversals could come about, but prior to Mr Warlow's paper, no-one ever seems to have been adventurous enough to suggest that magnetic reversals are a consequence of the whole Earth turning upside down! Indeed, Mr Warlow's idea might have been dismissed as an eccentric piece of idle speculation had it not been that he assembled a battery of impressive equations to show just how such a polar flip, magnetic as well as physical, could be induced by the gravitational pull of a passing cosmic body.
Before going any further, we had perhaps better pause to examine a few details. Magnetic reversals are generally reckoned to occur at intervals of several hundred thousand years on average. The last reversal known to have occurred, geologically, is generally quoted as having taken place about 700,000 years ago, though it is thought that a brief reversal also took place between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago. More recent reversals are thought to have taken place by some scientists, but then other scientists, with equal conviction, dispute these conclusions. There is, for example, a claim that a magnetic anomaly occurred in the ninth century BC. There is also, however, good evidence for believing that no magnetic reversal at all has taken place during the past 30,000 years. In other words, controversy rages about the more recent magnetic events.
For example, in the Bible (Amos 8.9) it says that God caused the Sun to go down at noon, and Mr Warlow explains how it would indeed appear to do so during an axial flip. Orthodox Bible scholars, however, say that Amos was merely referring to a total eclipse of the Sun.
Again, Mr Warlow notes that, according to the ancient historian Herodotus, the Egyptians claimed that the Sun had reversed its direction four times within their recorded history.
Actually what Herodotus said varies slightly from translation to translation, but basically it seems to have been pretty much as in the Reverend Cary's 1901 translation:
During this time, they related, that the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises; yet, that no change in the things in Egypt was occasioned by this, either with regard to the productions of the earth or the river, or with regard to diseases, or with respect to deaths. (Histories 2.142).
Note:
The Sages (Talmud Sanhedrin 96;a) said that the sun went forwards 2 hours when Ahaz died and later compensated by going backward 2 hours in the time of his son King Hezekiah. This might indicate that a change took place and then reversed itself?
Amos (NASB) 8:
9 And it will come about on that day, declares the LORD God,
That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And make the earth dark in broad daylight.
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2. Copper Mines in the Arabah, southern Judah
Was Shishak's Biblical Campaign About Copper?
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-egypt/copper-mines-in-the-arabah/?mqsc=E4133568&dk=ZE1270ZF0&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=BHDA%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=7_8_21_Copper_Mines_in_the_Arabah
Nathan Steinmeyer
A recent scholarly article has published new data regarding the source of Egyptian copper during the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period (c. 1070 B.C.E�665 B.C.E.), showing that Egypt's copper likely originated in the Arabah, the wide desert valley that forms the modern border between Israel and Jordan.[i] In addition to showing trade connections, this discovery could also provide new evidence on the reasons for the famous military expedition of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I (biblical Shishak) to the southern Levant in the mid-tenth century B.C.E.
At the height of Egypt's power during the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 B.C.E.), Egypt formed complex trade networks that supplied its empire with valuable goods, including copper, obtained from Sinai and the Arabah, that was used to produce bronze weapons and luxury objects. With Egypt's decline at the end of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1150 B.C.E.), however, the trading networks collapsed and the copper mines were abandoned. It was only during the subsequent Third Intermediate Period that bronze objects again circulated widely in Egypt. This dramatic increase in bronze artifacts has led scholars to wonder how Egypt procured the necessary copper for their production.
To answer this question, a team from the Israel Museum and Tel Aviv University recently took samples from several Egyptian artifacts dated to the Third Intermediate Period. The team performed chemical analyses on four bronze funeral statuettes from the reign of Pharaoh Psusennes I (r. late 11th century B.C.E.) and concluded that the copper from the figures almost certainly originated from the Arabah. Given that the Arabah shows no signs of having been under direct Egyptian control during this period, the team believes that Egypt likely received copper through local trade networks rather than direct exploitation.
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3. The Story of the Star of David
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/star-of-david/?_atscid=3_2269_216781035_10044284_0_Txzwdazt3asdcpudhau&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%2020.05.2021
In the Hebrew context, the Star of David is actually referred to as the 'Shield of David' (magen David), a phrase first mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud, not as a symbol, but as an epithet for God [Talmud, Pesachim 117b]. Another link to the shield concept is a Jewish legend according to which the emblem decorated the shields of King David's army; what's more, even Rabbi Akiva chose the Star of David as the symbol of Bar-Kochba's revolt against the Roman emperor Hadrian (Bar-Kochba's name means 'son of the star').
The Star of David only became a distinctly Jewish symbol in the mid-14th century, when the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV granted the Jews of Prague the right to carry a flag, and they chose the six-pointed star. From Prague, the use of the Star of David as an official Jewish symbol spread, and so began the movement to find Jewish sources that traced the symbol to the House of David.
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