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'The king took counsel and made two golden calves, and he said to them, saying, “It is far for you to go up to Jerusalem; here are your gods, O Israel, that have brought you up from the land of Egypt.' (1 Kings 12-30)
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The ivories were found among the ruins of a palatial building in use when Jerusalem was at the height of its power during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.
'This is a direct voice from the past, from the period when the Jewish leadership salvaged the remaining fragments from the fall of the Temple, went into exile in Yavne, and set about re-establishing the Jewish people there.'
'And it will be, when the Lord, your God, will bring you to the land to which you come, to possess it, that you shall place those blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and those cursing upon Mount Ebal (Deuteronomy 11:29)'
'A currency is a sign of sovereignty. If you go into rebellion, you use one of the most obvious symbols of independence, and you mint coins. The inscription on the coin clearly expresses the rebels’ aspirations.'
A Palestinian Arab invaded the site in Samaria and moved into one of the buildings with his family while carrying out construction work and damaging ancient finds.
The menorah engraving is a unique find dating back to the period between the Hasmonean era and the Bar-Kokhba revolt, when decorative use of this symbol was rare.
These archaeological finds in Judea and Samaria 'testify to the rich Jewish history of the area,' says head of the Civil Administration’s archaeological unit.
Israeli archaeologists discovered a trove of artifacts in Jerusalem dating back to the time of the biblical King Hezekiah during the First Temple period.
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