A Mysterious Tease

The Mt. Ebal Curst Tablet

Introduction II

[Post six of thirty]

The controversies surrounding a recent archaeological find should matter to you. This post presents a taste of why.

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This sixth post about the Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet aims to pique your interest in the story.

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Photos of a defixio, a curse tablet found in Israel in 2019, present a quandary. Archaeologists could not open it without it crumbling. They thus employed tomographic scanning to peer inside. This revealed a potential proto-alphabetic script. This claim, given the archaeological context, challenges long-held understandings of world history.

When, however, the archaeologist released photos of the scans, some experts cried, “Hoax!” They denied that the photos showed anything of significance.

My goal here is two-fold. One is to help you reach a well-informed understanding of the tablet. Further, I aim to encourage you to act on what you learn.

But beware! Conversing with intelligence about the photos requires more than a mere viewing. To most, other than a few specialized experts, they appear mysterious and unknowable.2

Yet, lay persons with some help can make well-considered observations about them.

To do so, they need three things. First, they need the history. Then they need an opportunity for efficient study. Last, and most important, they need enthusiasm. That is, enthusiasm for the history and for probing the evidence.

Below, I relate the history.

Furthermore, I guide an efficient online study of the photos.

But what about the enthusiasm? 

Viewing a 30-second video might spark something. It shows, of all things, a technological process applied to a piece of metal.

Wow! How thought-provoking and intriguing can that be?

Well, take a look at the video below.

Glance at its millimeter ticker in the top left corner. When it gets to .20 mm, focus particularly on the object’s top right. 

Or, watch the red bar on the right graph. As it approaches the major breach, focus on the top right of your screen.

Move, also, your cursor to the top right and click. This expands the image.

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Now watch.

Did you see anything?

Did you perceive only happenstance cracks, dents, and scratches on a very old piece of lead?

But, what about a stick man, a mace, some crossed hockey sticks? Did you detect some squiggly lines, a bent arm with an open hand, and a couple of ox skulls?

A canon of human history may hang in the balance, upon which of these assessments is correct.

Regardless of what you saw, this viewing likely raises questions like:

• What is the story here?
• How could that story impact history?
• Why should I or others care?

This memorandum seeks to prepare you for these and other issues.

At its end, I aim to help you engage these inquiries:

• Is there anything to see here? and
• If so, so what?”

Now here is a question. What, if anything, about the video most intrigued you?

Let me know your response in the comment section below.

Thank you for engaging with this topic thus far!

Our next post, the first of our review of the Curse Tablet’s history, I entitle: “The Paradigm”.

I look forward to continuing with you there.

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