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BH · 07-12-2006, 05:01 PM

If I remember correctly, didn't Moses command the Jews that when they settled the Promised Land they were to write the Laws he gave them (or a few) along the tops of their doors or facings of the jambs? If this is correct, has archeology discovered any remains of homes with inscriptions of laws written on the remains of the walls immediately around or above where the doors went?

Toto · 07-12-2006, 05:12 PM

Are you referring to Mezuzahs?

mountainman · 07-14-2006, 05:48 PM

The oldest precedent I am aware of for this sort of stuff
are the written inscriptions (that were mainly symbols)
over the entrance portals of a reasonable number of the
larger megalithic structures scattered over western
europe and the british isles.

EG: Spirals at New Grange, in Ireland.

AFAIK, the megalithic structures went up during the
time period 4500 - 3200 BCE. The building principles
employed in the megalithic structures, were used again
in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids (3000 -
2400 BCE). According to some authors (Lomax and
Knight; "Uriel's Machine") these same building codes
(ie: the structures were partly 'horizon declinometers')
were utilised in Solomon's temple.

Pete Brown

07-12-2006, 05:01 PM	#1
BH Talk Freethought Staff Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: United States Posts: 2,285	Scriptures written over doors If I remember correctly, didn't Moses command the Jews that when they settled the Promised Land they were to write the Laws he gave them (or a few) along the tops of their doors or facings of the jambs? If this is correct, has archeology discovered any remains of homes with inscriptions of laws written on the remains of the walls immediately around or above where the doors went?

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07-12-2006, 05:12 PM	#2
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	Are you referring to Mezuzahs?

07-14-2006, 05:48 PM	#3
mountainman Contributor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Falls Creek, Oz. Posts: 11,192	The oldest precedent I am aware of for this sort of stuff are the written inscriptions (that were mainly symbols) over the entrance portals of a reasonable number of the larger megalithic structures scattered over western europe and the british isles. EG: Spirals at New Grange, in Ireland. AFAIK, the megalithic structures went up during the time period 4500 - 3200 BCE. The building principles employed in the megalithic structures, were used again in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids (3000 - 2400 BCE). According to some authors (Lomax and Knight; "Uriel's Machine") these same building codes (ie: the structures were partly 'horizon declinometers') were utilised in Solomon's temple. Pete Brown

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