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Well, you have to wonder if some guy from Poland had any connection to Jerusalem in the 1920s.
Did his second cousin whose family had lived in Jerusalem from the first Temple have any connection. Did Ali ben nutjob from Mecca who went looking for work in 1890 have any connection to Jerusalem ?
The only people to move to Palestine in 1890 in any number were the European Jews. No one to speak of went to Palestine from Mecca. In fact, prior to 1850 there were only a handful of Jews in Palestine.
There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921
Hmmm! Who is stealing who's land? Well let's see now. Which came first? Solomon's Temple or the Al Aqsa Mosque?
Roman amphitheaters, villas, temples and baths pre-date any mosque in the Middle East or North Africa. What does that mean and what rights would it give to the descendants of the Romans?
SO WERE THE JEWS CIRCA 1925 ONWARDS,you are SCREWED AGAINYou forgot the Romans..........such a post should be thrown into the GARBAGE CAN OF THE INSANEJerusalem belongs to the Jews. Why? Because dspite repeated attempts to make it otherwise Jews repelled every invading army and defeated every foe in battle.
If Jerusalem and Israel was anyone else's, God wouldn't be on their side now would he?
NOPE the Romans were just like the muslims belligerent violent invaders
Mohammed was long dead before the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslims and Jews. You know absolutely nothing Aris. As they say, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
YawnInteresting I didn't know that.Can't all Abrahamic religions claim some connection to Jerusalem?Wonder if any Ayrabs had any connection to Jerusalem before Mo-Hamhead was spawned?
no. there's really no connection between jerusalem and islam. it isn't mentioned a single time in the koran. yet it forms the center of judaism in the talmud and christianity in the new testament.
I wonder who are the descendants of the Canaanites? I believe they would have an older claim to whatever the hell Jerusalem was thousands of years ago.
i think it's correct they'd be the phoenicians.
Hmmm! Who is stealing who's land? Well let's see now. Which came first? Solomon's Temple or the Al Aqsa Mosque?
Roman amphitheaters, villas, temples and baths pre-date any mosque in the Middle East or North Africa. What does that mean and what rights would it give to the descendants of the Romans?
Well, you have to wonder if some guy from Poland had any connection to Jerusalem in the 1920s.
Did his second cousin whose family had lived in Jerusalem from the first Temple have any connection. Did Ali ben nutjob from Mecca who went looking for work in 1890 have any connection to Jerusalem ?
The only people to move to Palestine in 1890 in any number were the European Jews. No one to speak of went to Palestine from Mecca. In fact, prior to 1850 there were only a handful of Jews in Palestine.
There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921
Proven to be false by the research done by the Catholic church
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem After 1291
"...Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000. The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jewish colony. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ..The First Official Ottoman Census
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm
Go to the new address at the top of the link
Besides confirming the high rate of migration to Palestine by the Europeans, what does the population of Jerusalem have to do with the population of Palestine?
The Pole was living in Poland and the Palestinian was living in Palestine. Is that a hint?
not really you live in America but it does not mean you have any links to America. In fact America has very little European archaeological records but plenty of Pueblo and first nation finds. How much 7c or earlier arab muslim remains can be found in Jerusalem, even the dome of the rock and al aqsa mosque are recent edifices.
Are you claiming that Poles were not living in Poland?
The people of Palestine were Christians prior to about 7 AD. After which, they adopted the Arabic language (became Arabs culturally) and many converted to Islam.
SO WERE THE JEWS CIRCA 1925 ONWARDS,you are SCREWED AGAINYou forgot the Romans..........such a post should be thrown into the GARBAGE CAN OF THE INSANEJerusalem belongs to the Jews. Why? Because dspite repeated attempts to make it otherwise Jews repelled every invading army and defeated every foe in battle.
If Jerusalem and Israel was anyone else's, God wouldn't be on their side now would he?
NOPE the Romans were just like the muslims belligerent violent invaders
Mohammed was long dead before the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslims and Jews. You know absolutely nothing Aris. As they say, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
And you think you know jack? You're nothing but a liar and a bigot, who's always fool whether you speak or if you're silent. Who the hell do you think you are, asshole?
SO WERE THE JEWS CIRCA 1925 ONWARDS,you are SCREWED AGAINYou forgot the Romans..........such a post should be thrown into the GARBAGE CAN OF THE INSANEJerusalem belongs to the Jews. Why? Because dspite repeated attempts to make it otherwise Jews repelled every invading army and defeated every foe in battle.
If Jerusalem and Israel was anyone else's, God wouldn't be on their side now would he?
NOPE the Romans were just like the muslims belligerent violent invaders
Nope as they were only defending what was theirs under International law. And the arab muslims started the violence in 1917 when they found they were to lose part of the M.E.
Well, you have to wonder if some guy from Poland had any connection to Jerusalem in the 1920s.
Did his second cousin whose family had lived in Jerusalem from the first Temple have any connection. Did Ali ben nutjob from Mecca who went looking for work in 1890 have any connection to Jerusalem ?
The only people to move to Palestine in 1890 in any number were the European Jews. No one to speak of went to Palestine from Mecca. In fact, prior to 1850 there were only a handful of Jews in Palestine.
There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921
Proven to be false by the research done by the Catholic church
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem After 1291
"...Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000. The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jewish colony. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ..The First Official Ottoman Census
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm
Go to the new address at the top of the link
Besides confirming the high rate of migration to Palestine by the Europeans, what does the population of Jerusalem have to do with the population of Palestine?
Where does it confirm a high rate of migration by only the Jews ?
The census covered the Sanjak of Jerusalem not just the city and this shows that the area was nearly all of modern day Israel
Want to try again freddy boy ?
Did his second cousin whose family had lived in Jerusalem from the first Temple have any connection. Did Ali ben nutjob from Mecca who went looking for work in 1890 have any connection to Jerusalem ?
The only people to move to Palestine in 1890 in any number were the European Jews. No one to speak of went to Palestine from Mecca. In fact, prior to 1850 there were only a handful of Jews in Palestine.
There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921
Proven to be false by the research done by the Catholic church
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem After 1291
"...Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000. The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jewish colony. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ..The First Official Ottoman Census
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm
Go to the new address at the top of the link
Besides confirming the high rate of migration to Palestine by the Europeans, what does the population of Jerusalem have to do with the population of Palestine?
Where does it confirm a high rate of migration by only the Jews ?
The census covered the Sanjak of Jerusalem not just the city and this shows that the area was nearly all of modern day Israel
Want to try again freddy boy ?
So, it is your contention that there were 16,270 people in the whole of Palestine in 1844. Interesting.
SO WERE THE JEWS CIRCA 1925 ONWARDS,you are SCREWED AGAINYou forgot the Romans..........such a post should be thrown into the GARBAGE CAN OF THE INSANEJerusalem belongs to the Jews. Why? Because dspite repeated attempts to make it otherwise Jews repelled every invading army and defeated every foe in battle.
If Jerusalem and Israel was anyone else's, God wouldn't be on their side now would he?
NOPE the Romans were just like the muslims belligerent violent invaders
Nope as they were only defending what was theirs under International law. And the arab muslims started the violence in 1917 when they found they were to lose part of the M.E.
You do realize you make absolutely no sense. What international law gave part of the Middle East to European Jews?
It's possible they may have a point. While there is no doubt Jerusalem was the centre of the Temple cult of Judaism, that's not to say the native population of Jerusalem were all adherants to that cult. Here's a couple of interesting articles that illustrate the point,
"An ancient pagan temple was found just three miles from Jerusalem. It dates from the time that the Biblical Temple to the true God was in operation. The discovery shows what the Prophets were railing against, God’s people turning to idols. Solomon built the Temple in accord with God’s commands, but he then built temples to other deities to please his pagan wives."
Pagan temple found just outside Jerusalem
and
"The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless there were Israelites, particularly those associated with the Jerusalem Temple, who were strict monotheists. But the archaeological evidence (and the Bible, too, if you read it closely enough) suggests that the monotheism of many Israelites was far from pure. For them, Yahweh (the name of the Israelite god) was not the only divinity. Some Israelites believed that Yahweh had a female consort. And many Israelites invoked the divinity with the help of images, particularly figurines. I call this Israelite religion pagan Yahwism.
The archaeological evidence we will look at comes mostly from Judah in what is known in archaeological terms as the Assyrian period, the span from 721 B.C.E., when the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, until 586 B.C.E., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and brought an end to the Davidic dynasty in Judah. This period, to put it into perspective, is several centuries after King Solomon built the Jerusalem Temple in about 950 B.C.E. So the archaeological evidence we are about to discuss documents a level of Israelite paganism long after Solomon built an exclusive home for Israel’s god."
Pagan Yahwism The Folk Religion of Ancient Israel The BAS Library
Did his second cousin whose family had lived in Jerusalem from the first Temple have any connection. Did Ali ben nutjob from Mecca who went looking for work in 1890 have any connection to Jerusalem ?
The only people to move to Palestine in 1890 in any number were the European Jews. No one to speak of went to Palestine from Mecca. In fact, prior to 1850 there were only a handful of Jews in Palestine.
There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921
Proven to be false by the research done by the Catholic church
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem After 1291
"...Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000. The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jewish colony. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ..The First Official Ottoman Census
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm
Go to the new address at the top of the link
Besides confirming the high rate of migration to Palestine by the Europeans, what does the population of Jerusalem have to do with the population of Palestine?
Where does it confirm a high rate of migration by only the Jews ?
The census covered the Sanjak of Jerusalem not just the city and this shows that the area was nearly all of modern day Israel
Want to try again freddy boy ?
So, it is your contention that there were 16,270 people in the whole of Palestine in 1844. Interesting.
The only people to move to Palestine in 1890 in any number were the European Jews. No one to speak of went to Palestine from Mecca. In fact, prior to 1850 there were only a handful of Jews in Palestine.
There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921
Proven to be false by the research done by the Catholic church
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem After 1291
"...Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000. The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jewish colony. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ..The First Official Ottoman Census
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm
Go to the new address at the top of the link
Besides confirming the high rate of migration to Palestine by the Europeans, what does the population of Jerusalem have to do with the population of Palestine?
Where does it confirm a high rate of migration by only the Jews ?
The census covered the Sanjak of Jerusalem not just the city and this shows that the area was nearly all of modern day Israel
Want to try again freddy boy ?
So, it is your contention that there were 16,270 people in the whole of Palestine in 1844. Interesting.
Phoenell, I don't think monte and Indofred are the same guy.
It's possible they may have a point. While there is no doubt Jerusalem was the centre of the Temple cult of Judaism, that's not to say the native population of Jerusalem were all adherants to that cult. Here's a couple of interesting articles that illustrate the point,
"An ancient pagan temple was found just three miles from Jerusalem. It dates from the time that the Biblical Temple to the true God was in operation. The discovery shows what the Prophets were railing against, God’s people turning to idols. Solomon built the Temple in accord with God’s commands, but he then built temples to other deities to please his pagan wives."
Pagan temple found just outside Jerusalem
and
"The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless there were Israelites, particularly those associated with the Jerusalem Temple, who were strict monotheists. But the archaeological evidence (and the Bible, too, if you read it closely enough) suggests that the monotheism of many Israelites was far from pure. For them, Yahweh (the name of the Israelite god) was not the only divinity. Some Israelites believed that Yahweh had a female consort. And many Israelites invoked the divinity with the help of images, particularly figurines. I call this Israelite religion pagan Yahwism.
The archaeological evidence we will look at comes mostly from Judah in what is known in archaeological terms as the Assyrian period, the span from 721 B.C.E., when the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, until 586 B.C.E., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and brought an end to the Davidic dynasty in Judah. This period, to put it into perspective, is several centuries after King Solomon built the Jerusalem Temple in about 950 B.C.E. So the archaeological evidence we are about to discuss documents a level of Israelite paganism long after Solomon built an exclusive home for Israel’s god."
Pagan Yahwism The Folk Religion of Ancient Israel The BAS Library
Hurrians, assyrians, egyptians, local canaanites, moabites and aegean sea people were all criss crossing the land before and during the first temple period. Babylonians brought their own gods when they conquered.
The find was not in Jerusalem but between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. There are lots of things still be found. Every dig in Israel has the possibility that antiquities will delay or saved as a historic site.
