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The Moabite Stone. By W.H Bennett

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10/2  Moabite stone Started big thing in outline;  Have notes; took them by sources; still getting info form a few; putting some o the inscriptions in, will find out a little more about the fire in in love elements in outline; very nice flow;  Good detailed notes; //What is important about the stone? // How it uncovered more of the bible, and some of the facts that we needed to know; This isn’t eprecise, but maybe skymbol of, metaphor for, example of, etc. maybe?

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Draft: The Moabite Stone Video information ask to borrow Thesis: still planning… the metaphor The Moabite stone used to be called the Mesha Stele. The stone is made of black basalt, the inscription of the 19th century BC, the Moabite King Mesha. The stone was discovered in August 1868 in Dhibon (the capital of Moab). It is written in the Moabite language and the inscription refers to ancient Israel. The set up is by Mesha in about 850 BC, for the memorials of his victories in the revolt against the Kingdom of Israel. And this is all after the death of his overlord Ahab. The Stone was discovered by Rev. F. A. Klein, a German missionary in Jerusalem. "The Arabs of the neighborhood, dreading the loss of such a talisman, broke the stone into pieces; but a squeeze had already been obtained by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, and most of the fragments were recovered and pieced together by him". The inscription was made in 860 BC in the name of Mesha king of Moab. This is the translation of the first two-thirds of the inscription: "I am Mesha, son of Chemosh . . . (?), King of Moab, the Dibonite. My father reigned over Moab thirty years, and I became king after my father, and I made this high place for Chemosh in, the high place of deliverance, because he had delivered me from all that attacked me, and because he had made me see my desire upon all my enemies. Omri, King of Israel, oppressed Israel many days because Chemosh was angry with his land; and his son succeeded him, and he also said, 'I will oppress Moab.' In my days he said this, and I saw my desire upon him, and Israel was humbled with everlasting humiliation. Omri had taken possession of the land of Medeba and [his people] occupied it during his days and half the days of his son, forty years; but Chemosh restored it in my days. . . . And the men of Gad had occupied the land of Ataroth for a long time, and the King of Israel had built up Ataroth for himself. And I fought against the city and took it, and I slew all the people from the city, a sight for the eyes of Chemosh and of Moab. . . . And Chemosh said to me, 'Go, take Nebo against Israel.' And I went by night and fought against it from the break of dawn until noon, and I took it and slew all [that were in] it, seven thousand men and boys and women and girls and maidservants; for to Ashtor-Chemosh I had devoted it. And I took from there the vessels of Yahweh and brought them before Chemosh. And the King of Israel had fortified Jahaz and occupied it while he was at war with me, and Chemosh drove him out from before me. And I took of Moab two hundred, all its chiefs, and I attacked Jahaz and took it, in order to add it to Dibon."   In the rest of the inscription Mesha tells of restoring and fortifying cities that rightfully belonged to Moab, of building a palace for himself, and of constructing reservoirs for water.    The inscription is by far the most important yet found in Palestine. It has added essentially to the scanty knowledge of the history and religion of Moab itself, and has thrown light on the fortunes of Israel east of the Jordan, as well as upon the foreign relations of the dynasty of Omri. The character of the language of Moab is also pretty fairly indicated. The stones significance for understanding a part of the Old Testament. Mesha is described in the Bible as sacrificing his eldest son to help him defeat Israel. (www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/moabite.htm)      The Moab is a close parallel to Israel. Chemosh has the same political relation as to Jeovah. They are similar because the both have intense patriotism and the king is the nearest representative of the Deity in executing all His will. The border warfare between Moab and Israel helps to understand the bitter hostility of each people toward the other, and the race hatred to which Judah became heir after the fall of the Northern Kingdom. A clearer idea is obtained of the epoch-making deeds of Omri, a large portion of Moab was annexed and the whole kingdom forced to pay an enormous tribute but after his day Israel gradually lost its hold upon Moab, which was thus left to its habitual repose, and, like wine, "settled on his lees" The literature in connection with the Moabite stone is quite large. The language of the inscription is continually processing. Wright gave translations with notes in 1870 by Clermont-Ganneau, Nöldeke, Ginsburg, Schlottmann, and Derenbourg, and in 1871. But recent discussions say it may be noted that an attempt to disprove the authenticity of the stone was recently made by A. Löwy (Berlin, 1903). Although it was later broken when Klein tried to purchase it from the Arabs. Ruth the Moabitess was married to and Ruth became the great grandmother of King David, the rabbis maintain the biblical injunction applied only to a Moabitess man but not the moabitess woman. The Arabs of the neighborhood, dreading the loss of such a talisman, broke the stone into pieces; but a squeeze had already been obtained by Clermont-Ganneau, and most of the fragments were recovered and pieced together by him. It was reconstructed monument is now, together with the squeeze, in the museum of the Louvre in Paris. In conclusion, the Moabite stone is a great piece of history that we are very fortunate to have recovered. There is history in the stone and outside of the stone of what happened to it. It tells more key information about the Bible and more ancient 860 BC important facts. This stone and the story behind it tell about metaphors with the Europeans and the Arabs and what was the cause of the rage and rescue of the stone. The Moabite Stone is fascinating and very interesting and I had the pleasure of learning in depth about it. Chinese Dance Powerpoint: file:///Users/devins/Desktop/Chinese%20Dance%20finish.ppt