by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Metal, Popular
We learn from these two amulets that people—at least some people—chose to refer to God by the more intimate term YHWH (יהוה). These four letters are unpronounceable and untranslatable. This anomaly stems from the fact that biblical Hebrew is written with only...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Metal
The Silver Amulets: Part 4 The amulets are vitally important not simply because of what they say, but because they are very old. They are dated to approximately 600 BCE and contain actual lines from the Bible: the Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:24-26), ^24 The Lord...
by admin | May 4, 2018 | Browse All, Inscriptions, Metal, Popular
Two small silver amulets— blessings and magical phrases used to ward off bad luck and danger—were found in a burial cave in Jerusalem in 1979 during archaeological excavations at a place called /Ketef Hinnom/ (the shoulder of the Hinnom [valley], just on the hill...
