This was found open to Psalm 83....Coincidence?? I think not....
>>> Shoshanna Walker
7/26/2006 2:40 PM >>>
Rabbis all over the world are asking people to recite psalm
83 for the safety of the Jewish people and success for Israel's war.
An ancient book of Psalms (Tehillim) was "miraculously" found in the
mud yesterday, in Ireland, dating back to the years 800-1000, open
to PSALM 83 (pey gimel) - the 1st which the Rabbinate of Israel led
Jews all around the world to say on the SAME DAY!
DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish archaeologists Tuesday
heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction
worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe
into a bog.
The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000.
Trinity
College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was
the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two
centuries.
"This is really a miracle find," said Pat Wallace, director of the
National Museum of
Ireland which has the book stored in refrigeration
and facing years of painstaking analysis before being put on public
display.
"There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out.
First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive
buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted
before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing."
He said an engineer was digging up bogland last week to create
commercial potting soil somewhere in Ireland's midlands when, "just
beyond the bucket of his bulldozer, he spotted something."
Wallace would not specify where the book was found because a team of
archaeologists is still exploring the site.
"The owner of the bog has had dealings with us in past and is very
much in favor of archaeological discovery and reporting it," Wallace
said.
Crucially, he said, the bog owner covered up the book with damp soil.
Had it been left exposed overnight, he said, "it could have dried out
and just vanished, blown away."
The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script,
>Psalm 83, in
which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the
name of Israel.
Wallace said several experts spent Tuesday analyzing only that page -
the number of letters on each line, lines on each page, size of page
- and the book's binding and cover, which he described as "leather
velum, very thick wallet in appearance."
It could take months of study, he said, just to identify the safest
way to pry open the pages without damaging or destroying them. He
ruled out the use of X-rays to investigate without moving the pages.
Ireland already has several other holy books from the early medieval
period, including the ornately illustrated
Book of
Kells, which has been on display at Trinity College in
Dublin since the 19th century.
>For those who don't know, the psalm reads as follows:
A song, a psalm of Asaph
G-d do not hold Your silence, be not silent and be not still
Almighty. For behold, Your enemies are in an uproar and those who
hate you have lifted up their head.
Against Your people they plot deceitfully, and they conspire against
those sheltered by You.
They say "Come, let us cut them off from nationhood, let Israel's
name be remembered no more"
For they conspire together with a unanimous heart, against You they
make a covenant.
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal,
and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Even Assyria is joined with them, they become a supporting arm to the
children of Lot, Selah.
Do unto them as with Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river
bed of Kishon.
They were destroyed at Ein Dor, they became dung for the soil.
Make their nobles, like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebach and Zalmuna,
all their princes.
Who said, "Let us inhereit for ourselves the pleasant habitations of G-d".
My G-d, make them like whirling chaff, like straw before the wind.
Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that ignites the mountains.
So pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Fill their faces with shame, then they will seak Your Name, HaShem.
Let them be ashamed and terrified, forever, and let them be
humiliated and perish.
Then they will know that You Whose Name is HaShem, are alone, the
Most High over all the earth.
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"Blessed is He who Comes in The Name of The Lord"
Ancient Psalm Scroll Found
