Why Me?

The Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet

Preface III

[Post four of thirty]

Why should I attempt to tackle Ebal’s enigmas? The short answer is that I have experience with an appropriate tool for the issue at hand. That is summary judgment.

Note

This is the fourth post for my memorandum about the Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet.

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For a definitive opinion on this matter, one would likely at first blush look elsewhere. You might consider a panel. That would include archaeologists, epigraphers, and experts in tomography, computer science, and photography. But not an attorney!

If the question was: “What is the ultimate truth about Mt. Ebal, Joshua’s Altar, and the Curse Tablet?”, I would agree. In that case, I would likely say,” Yes, the experts should receive considerable latitude.”

But that is not the current question. Instead, it is whether to excavate now!

Answering this question requires another element. That is an expedited, well-reasoned decision.

How is this achieved?

Usually, archaeologists, epigraphers, and similar experts are not best equipped to negotiate this.

Consider Agatha Christie. She described her husband, an esteemed archaeologist, conferring with colleagues. This, she said, was “Blood on the carpet!”

Blood on the carpet” may achieve a quick resolution. But likely not the non-literal sense Christie intended.

Often, too, it may not precipitate the best immediate resolution. Instead, it may settle with the side that speaks loudest. Worse, today, it may be with the one who best manipulates social media.

This matter is too important, too urgent for such a result.

So why me?

I am not an expert in archaeology, epigraphy, or tomography.

Instead, I am a combat infantry veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, I am an attorney, a retired member of the Louisiana bar.

But on the questions at issue, I am qualified to make this case..

Experience as a combat infantryman helps a bit.

First, I have ideas about operating in a combat zone. Particularly, I have experienced scenes of tranquility. Then, in a moment, they erupt into chaotic bloodshed.

The area of Mt. Ebal can become the eye of such.

This, decision-makers should remember.

Additionally, another aspect of military experience is of value. Understanding the issues presented here requires a journey across an eon of time. There, one encounters battles about truth. 

For this journey, one needs preparatory information

In the U. S. Army, such comes in an operation order. Anyone who has ever served knows “Sergeant Major eats sugar cookies!” This is the anachronism for the elements of an operation order. That is situation, mission, execution, sustainment, command, and signal.

To equip you for this adventure, I detail the most relevant of these in my next post.

My being an attorney, however, provides the most salient reason for “Why me?”

For me, the necessary elements are at hand.

The internet provides appropriate expertise. For example, one can find such on Heritage Science’s website. One appears at: “You are Cursed by the God YHW:” an early Hebrew inscription from Mt. Ebal. You discover another at: Mt. Ebal curse tablet? A refutation of the claims regarding the so-called Mt. Ebal curse tablet

I also have experience with a rule of law for a situation analogous to this matter. It is U.S. Code of Civil Procedure Rule 56–“Summary Judgment”. This states an authoritative measure. Plus, it yields an expedited decision with more than a modicum of logic.

This matter needs this decision-making clarity.

Much public confusion now reigns over the issues surrounding Mt. Ebal.

Some people have already ingrained notions. Many derive, as one might choose a favorite football team. They have decided that they prefer the red team or the blue team, the gold or the purple. Logic may not run much deeper.

Political authorities and the public who can influence them need to make up their minds. They must do this soon. But after serious thought.

Why? There are immense consequences for a wrong or late response.

Delay could lead to the loss of riddle answers. This could be for another decade, another century, or another thirty-five hundred years. Who knows?

But, acting without due forethought could upset a war zone’s delicate political balance.

The decision-making process of this memorandum offers an opportunity. That is an expedited, logical deliberation that this matter mandates. 

In sum, stick with me for this excursion. Together we can reach our destination. We can digest the academic evidence. We can apply a fair measure. Also, on the following questions, we can render expedited yet considered decisions:

• Does satisfactory evidence support the fantastic claims about the Curse Tablet?; and
• Should we advocate for posthaste, but careful and thorough, excavation of Mt. Ebal’s alleged Joshua’s Altar, the origin of the Curse Tablet?

Again, come along! We can do this!

But first, let us make sure we have what we need for our time travel.

We will review this in our next post.

Now, here is a question. So what if future generations fail to discern the Curse tablet’s true character?

Let me know in the comment section below.

Thank you for engaging with this topic thus far!

Our next post I entitle: “Journey Essentials”.

I look forward to continuing with you there.

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