Thousand Year Old Copy of Psalm 83 Found in Ireland Bog
If you are the type to get a shiver up your spine when coincidences happen like I am, you'll love this story.
In a nutshell:
A backhoe operator digs up a book burried in a bog since between 800 and 1000AD.
He doesn't destroy it accidentally with the backhoe during the discovery.
He happens to realize that something like that doesn't need to dry out so he covers it in peet while waiting for the authorities to arrive.
It is in perfect condition.
It is a religious book 20 pages in length.
It is open to Psalm 83.
Psalm 83 is essentially god listening to complaints about nations trying to wipe out Isreal.
Hezbollah is more or less currently trying to wipe out Isreal. (Ok, maybe more accurately Isreal is defending themselves by attempting to wipe out Hezbollah, just go with it!)
Cool coincidence huh? I got chills, but then again I love this sort of thing.
Comments
thanks for this post. I love this stuff as well...
Posted by: chip | July 26, 2006 3:55 PM
Wow! I read the article but didn't make the connection Woody (too early in the morning and only on first cuppa coffee!) This has to be much more than coincidence. I have never doubted that the Jews were God's chosen people fore what else could explain their survival as a religion and as a race of people thru all the disasters that have overtaken them. I'm getting out my Bible now. BB
Posted by: Brenda Bowers | July 26, 2006 4:35 PM