Verisimilitude. It’s a big word, one I had to look up when it was used by an archaeologist whose team discovered what appears to be the corner of God’s altar in Shiloh, Israel, a city in the heart of the West Bank. It means, “the appearance of being true or real,” and when applied to this archaeological discovery, it means what they found seems to demonstrate several historical components of the Old Testament are true.

Several other recent discoveries at the site point to the same basic conclusion: What the Bible said about ancient Shiloh coincide with the emerging archaeological record. This is exciting news for Bible believers of the various Judeo-Christian faiths, which is why it was barely covered by the media. Jerusalem Post was one of the only sources to dive into the discovery.

Was the corner of God’s altar found in Shiloh, West Bank?

The find, said Stripling, director of excavations at ancient Shiloh and head of the Associates for Biblical Research, is consistent with what he expected to find in the fields of the ancient city where, according to the biblical account, the tabernacle for the Ark of the Covenant once stood.

Stripling is a “biblical archaeologist.” He has been excavating the land of Israel for decades. He directed excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir from 2013 to 2017, served as a field supervisor of the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project from 2005 to 2010, and was a supervisor of the Jerusalem Temple Mount Salvage Project, as well.

His Shiloh team is made up of archaeologists and volunteers from 11 universities around the world – an interdisciplinary team of scientists, historians and biblical scholars. In the last three years, they uncovered multiple large pithoi – “famous Israelite collar-rimmed jars” – inside a series of “storage rooms” that they found surround the ancient city.

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Despite the obvious excitement of the team’s leader, Dr. Scott Stripling, media outlets, even in Israel, have done their best to report it. There’s a political significance to it all; Shiloh is in the disputed West Bank that nearly every nation that’s part of the United Nation’s believes should be home of for a Palestinian state or even returned to Jordan. Most in Israel and at least a strong minority in the United States believe otherwise, but progressive mainstream media in both countries won’t touch a story like this as it supports the notion that ancient Hebrews controlled the land long before any other current people group.

Nonetheless, Bible-believers can be pleased by the discovery as it’s just the latest in a long and growing string of archaeological finds in the Jewish state that support their claims to the land and the validity of the Bible. There have been multiple pieces of evidence discovered that align with Bible stories during past excavations as well, but they were not recognized by the traditional archaeologists who found them. One such discovery was in the early 1980s when Tel Aviv University Professor Israel Finkelstein discovered a large bone deposit.

“These were kosher and young animals, many with signs of burn or butcher marks on them, and they were mostly from the right side of the animal,” Stripling explained. “This did not mean much to Finkelstein. For me it was Leviticus Chapter 7: The right side of the animal was the priest’s portion, which would have been consumed at Shiloh. It would have been sacrificed, eaten by the priest and the bones disposed.”

The more they dig in the land of Israel, the more archaeologists are discovering pieces of evidence that confirm the historical Biblical narrative. Even secular scientists are starting to use the Bible to guide them through discoveries.


Comments
Adi Syed
YOU ALREADY HAVE A STATE ? stop claiming or talking about claims.. today India can claim Pakistan was its territory but nothing changes.......

the same way turkey can claim that Palestine Lebanon & other countries in med belong to Ottoman turkey why should just euro crypto jew have that special treatment ?

weather it was 2000 years ago in case of israel or 100 years ago in case of Ottoman turkey or India & Pakistan partition... CLAIMING IS CLAIMING

so wake up from your stupid dreams


Edison TorresSoto replying to Adi Syed
Stop the Hate love a Jew. Besides a Jew is a smarter Version of a Muslim No Sharia law to worry about and less Allah BS.


Howard
The suggestion that such archaeological finds corroborate the Jewish claim to the West Bank is questionable. By the same token, would finds of ancient Roman architecture in, say, France allow the Italians to claim France as theirs? In any event, the Israelis don't need such evidence, as their eventual annexation of all the West Bank or Samaria, call it what you will, will go ahead anyway.

I'd recommend reading a book called "The Bible Unearthed" by Finkelstein, mentioned in the article, with Silbermann who suggest that the archaeology does not unequivocally bear out the claims made by expansionists.


David R. Evans
None of this is relevant to Modern Israel, a state that was self-spawned by EuroJew invaders of Palestine.

Do Ancient Byzantine descendants or the Canaanites who lived in Jerusalem long before ancient Israelites now also have claim to modern Palestine? Why do only Jews demand this special treatment?


Adi Syed replying to David R. Evans
exactly born in caucases do not have full lineage cannot talk about israelites the same way an indian speaking english cannot claim just because he speak english he is white.. nop..that not the case


Edison TorresSoto replying to David R. Evans
Cannot Invade someplace that belong to you in the past. That's a Come back Reunion.


Adi Syed replying to Edison TorresSoto
white converted khazars do not have a claim on middle eastern lands as they do not originate from that land. an indian with full english knowledge cannot say he is a white briton from UK he is still be known as a asian when applying to jobs or universities for education.

so it not a reunion. it an invasion. as long as the sheep in US pay 10 million a day it continues but as soon as it stops the whole state crumbles because when your exports are low in value and your imports are higher you go bankrupt in a normal commodity based monetary system.

hence the bankers (leeches) are against the abandonment of USD in global financial system. but that will not stop it will speed up the process of dedollarisation and eventually the zio state has to come to its senses when the cash tap stops.


Luke
In the days of Shiloh the tabernacle of the congregation was a tent and the altar that traveled along with it was made of shittim wood that was overlaid with brass.

Exodus 27:1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Exodus 27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

Even when they did make stone alters over the years the weren't allowed use tools on it.

Exodus 20:25: And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.


Jack75287 replying to Luke
Good quote. The only way they could build it is grinding the stones together. Hard work!.

https://noqreport.com/2019/11/10/archaeological-discovery-shiloh-matches-perfectly-bible

"Goyim a flab of rock was found, our occupation of Palestine and enslaving you is justified. Also remember to read your bible because we found a flab of rock that clearly our Academic control and forgers couldn't really make on their own. " -Juden

I didn't know about the site, but apparently it is, the fastest growing news source tailored for conservatives, Christians, federalists, and classical liberals. Hm!

They carved a rock to be shaped like a toilet, and it's the most important archaeological discovery ever found? Exactly what I would expect from the fart drinking poo people. Who go for years without ever washing themself and call it a spiritual accomplishment, and just throw on another inch-thick layer of black wool in the middle of the summer. When they walk by, you can smell them rotting from a mile away.

Whenever they dig up a rock or something they claim it validates the bible. Most of these were gentile cities anyway they even admit in the article Shiloh was a Canaanite settlement for thousands of years before it fell into the hands of the 'Israelites'.

This does not even resemble a horn and the layout doesn't resemble a temple either. Plus the xian-bot quoting the bible is also correct, all this stuff is said to have happened in tents and stone altars were a no-no. The idiot archaeologist seemingly can't read the crap the 'good book' says.