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Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “Shadows from the Past” (8/12)

• 00:02 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:23 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
• 00:29 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
• 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT ♪
• 00:41 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
• 00:47 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:48 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:49 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:50 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:51 KATHARINE WEISS AND WE WANT
• 00:52 TO WELCOME YOU BACK
• 00:53 TO OUR SERIES,
• 00:54 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
• 00:56 IT'S A WONDERFUL SERIES
• 00:57 UNEARTHING THE TREASURES
• 01:00 THAT GOD'S ORDAINED US
• 01:01 TO FIND IN THIS TIME.
• 01:03 Myles: YES, REALLY,
• 01:04 ARCHAEOLOGY VERIFYING THE TRUTH
• 01:05 OF THE BIBLE.
• 01:06 AND, IN FACT, OUR RESOURCE
• 01:07 THIS WEEK IS THIS VERY SERIES,
• 01:10 THE ORIGINAL SERIES,
• 01:11 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
• 01:12 WE'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT
• 01:13 LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
• 01:15 THIS PROGRAM IS GOING TO TALK
• 01:16 ABOUT THE FIRST TEMPLE,
• 01:18 GO BACK THAT FAR AND ESTABLISH
• 01:20 THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN THE LAND.
• 01:22 SO LET'S GO ON LOCATION
• 01:23 RIGHT NOW
• 01:24 AS DR. TOM McCALL INTERVIEWS
• 01:26 ARCHAEOLOGIST GABRIEL BARKAY.
• 01:31 Tom: MOST OF US ARE FAMILIAR
• 01:32 WITH THIS TOMB, REFERRED TO
• 01:33 AS THE "GARDEN TOMB."
• 01:35 IT WAS DISCOVERED
• 01:36 BY CHARLES GORDON IN 1883.
• 01:40 WHAT FEW PEOPLE HAVE SEEN,
• 01:41 HOWEVER,
• 01:42 LIES JUST 100 YARDS AWAY.
• 01:45 THIS MAGNIFICENT BURIAL CAVE
• 01:47 IS CARVED 43 FEET DEEP
• 01:49 INTO THE BEDROCK
• 01:51 OF A DOMINICAN MONASTERY.
• 01:53 ACCORDING TO ARCHAEOLOGIST
• 01:54 GABI BARKAY, DATES TO THE TIME
• 01:57 OF THE 1st TEMPLE.
• 02:00 Gabi: TOMBS IN GENERAL
• 02:01 AND BURIAL CAVES, THEY GIVE US,
• 02:05 I THINK, THE BEST REFLECTION
• 02:07 OF SOCIETY IN ANTIQUITY,
• 02:09 AND THEY GIVE US A VARIETY
• 02:12 OF FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE.
• 02:14 THEY TEACH US A LOT ABOUT
• 02:16 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF LIFE
• 02:18 IN ANTIQUITY.
• 02:19 FOR EXAMPLE, THIS CAVE
• 02:21 IS LOCATED ABOUT HALF A MILE
• 02:23 DISTANCE FROM THE CITY
• 02:24 OF JERUSALEM.
• 02:26 THE QUESTION IS WHY WAS IT
• 02:27 PUSHED THAT FAR?
• 02:28 WE CAN COME TO THE CONCLUSION
• 02:30 THAT THERE WERE EXTRAMURAL
• 02:32 SUBURBS FILLING IN THE GAP
• 02:34 BETWEEN THE LOCATION OF
• 02:35 THIS CAVE AND THE ANCIENT CORE
• 02:39 OF THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 02:41 THE BURIAL CUSTOMS HERE,
• 02:42 THEY SHOW US THE IMPORTANCE
• 02:44 OF FAMILY IN THE LIVES
• 02:45 OF THESE PEOPLE.
• 02:47 IT SHOWS US THEIR CONCEPT
• 02:49 OF AFTERLIFE.
• 02:50 EVEN SPIRITUAL ASPECTS ARE
• 02:52 TAUGHT BY THE BURIAL CUSTOMS.
• 02:56 WE CAN UNDERSTAND MUCH BETTER
• 02:58 BIBLICAL VERSES WHEN WE STUDY
• 03:02 THE BURIAL CUSTOMS AND WHEN WE
• 03:03 STUDY THE ARCHITECTURE
• 03:05 OF THESE CAVES.
• 03:06 THIS BURIAL CAVE, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 03:08 SERVED A NOBLE FAMILY
• 03:09 OF JERUSALEM
• 03:10 WHO LIVED MOST PROBABLY
• 03:12 IN ONE OF THOSE EXTRAMURAL
• 03:14 OUTER SUBURBS OF THE CITY.
• 03:17 AND NO DOUBT THAT THEY WISHED
• 03:20 TO COPY FOR THE DECEASED
• 03:23 OF THE FAMILY THE CONDITIONS
• 03:25 THAT THEY HAD IN THEIR LIFETIME.
• 03:29 THIS ELABORATE BURIAL CAVE
• 03:31 IS NOTHING BUT A COPY
• 03:33 OF THE PALACE ARCHITECTURE,
• 03:36 WHICH WAS THERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 03:39 YOU CAN SEE IT VERY CLEARLY
• 03:40 BY THE FACT THAT WE ARE STANDING
• 03:42 HERE IN THE HALL, WHICH IS--
• 03:45 THE HEIGHT OF THE CEILING
• 03:46 IS TWICE OUR HEIGHT.
• 03:49 OF COURSE, THE ORIGINAL DWELLERS
• 03:51 OF THIS BURIAL CAVE, THEY
• 03:52 ENTERED IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION
• 03:55 BECAUSE THEY WERE
• 03:56 PRETTY MUCH DEAD.
• 03:58 SO, THEY DON'T NEED THIS HEIGHT.
• 04:00 THIS HEIGHT IS SOMETHING WHICH
• 04:02 REFLECTS THE CUSTOMS OF BUILDING
• 04:08 IN PALATIAL ARCHITECTURE.
• 04:11 Zola: THIS FLOOR PLAN OF
• 04:12 THE TOMB SHOWS HOW PALATIAL
• 04:13 THE FAMILY HOME MUST HAVE BEEN.
• 04:16 THE GRAND ENTRANCE CHAMBER
• 04:17 IS SURROUNDED BY SMALLER
• 04:18 BURIAL CHAMBERS DESIGNATED
• 04:20 FOR VARIOUS FAMILY MEMBERS.
• 04:23 ONE OF THE ROOMS
• 04:24 TOWARD THE ENTRANCE WAS USED
• 04:25 TO PREPARE THE DEAD FOR BURIAL.
• 04:27 GABI TAKES US INTO
• 04:28 ONE OF THE BURIAL CHAMBERS.
• 04:32 Gabi: WE ARE HERE
• 04:33 IN A TYPICAL BURIAL CHAMBER
• 04:36 OF THE 1st TEMPLE PERIOD.
• 04:37 THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THIS TYPE
• 04:40 INSIDE THIS LARGE BURIAL COMPLEX
• 04:45 IN WHICH WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
• 04:48 THE CHAMBER IS SQUARE IN SHAPE
• 04:52 AND IT IS SUBDIVIDED BY
• 04:55 A CENTRAL PASSAGEWAY WHICH
• 04:56 HAS STEPS AT ITS END AND
• 04:58 IT IS FLANKED ON BOTH SIDES BY
• 05:01 ELEVATED BURIAL BENCHES,
• 05:04 ONE OF WHICH,
• 05:05 UPON WHICH I SIT RIGHT NOW,
• 05:07 IS AT THE BACK OF THE CHAMBER.
• 05:09 SO WE HAVE
• 05:10 THREE ELEVATED BENCHES.
• 05:12 SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ANTIQUITY,
• 05:14 THEY PUT FOUR BODIES
• 05:16 STRETCHED ON THE BENCHES.
• 05:19 HERE, YOU CAN SEE THE HEADREST
• 05:21 OF ONE OF THE DECEASED.
• 05:24 THIS IS MADE IN THE SHAPE
• 05:25 OF A HORSESHOE
• 05:27 WITH TWO ROUNDED CURLS
• 05:30 AT BOTH ENDS OF THE HORSESHOE.
• 05:33 IT IS AN IMITATION OF THE HAIRDO
• 05:35 OF THE EGYPTIAN DEITY HATHOR.
• 05:39 THE BODIES WERE STRETCHED ON TOP
• 05:41 OF THE BENCHES AND THEN, AFTER
• 05:45 APPROXIMATELY A YEAR, THEY TOOK
• 05:47 THE BONES AND THE BURIAL GIFTS,
• 05:50 WHICH WERE DEPOSITED,
• 05:54 TOGETHER WITH THE BODIES,
• 05:55 THEY TOOK THEM DOWN
• 05:56 INTO A HOLLOW AREA
• 05:59 UNDERNEATH THE BENCHES.
• 06:01 THIS IS THE REPOSITORY.
• 06:03 THIS IS THE ENTRANCE
• 06:04 OF THE REPOSITORY.
• 06:06 INSIDE THIS REPOSITORY, WE STILL
• 06:08 SEE THE BONES OF THE DECEASED,
• 06:11 PART OF WHICH COULD WELL BE
• 06:15 ORIGINAL BONES DATING BACK
• 06:16 TO 1st TEMPLE PERIOD.
• 06:19 Zola: THERE IS ANOTHER CHAMBER
• 06:20 AT THE REAR OF THE COMPLEX
• 06:21 WHERE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 06:22 FOUND THE REMAINS
• 06:23 OF THREE SARCOPHAGI,
• 06:25 OR STONE COFFINS,
• 06:26 HEWN OUT OF THE LIVING ROCK.
• 06:28 THIS BURIAL CUSTOM
• 06:29 IS REFERRED TO IN 2 KINGS 22:20;
• 06:39 THESE OSSUARY ON DISPLAY AT
• 06:41 THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, WERE USED TO
• 06:43 HOLD THE BONES OF THE DECEASED.
• 06:46 THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM,
• 06:47 TALKS ABOUT ONE VERY SPECIAL
• 06:49 OSSUARY BEARING THE NAME
• 06:51 OF THE HIGH PRIEST, CAIAPHAS.
• 06:53 Dr. Martin Weyl: THE BOX
• 06:54 YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS MOMENT
• 06:55 IS NOT A JEWELRY BOX.
• 06:58 IT IS A BOX MADE OUT
• 07:00 OF LIMESTONE, THE LOCAL STONE.
• 07:03 DURING THE PERIOD OF
• 07:04 THE 2nd TEMPLE, THE BONES
• 07:06 OF THE DEAD WERE DEPOSED
• 07:08 IN SUCH BOXES AND, THEREFORE,
• 07:10 IT IS CALLED AN OSSUARY.
• 07:12 IN LATIN "OS" MEANS "BONE".
• 07:16 SUCH BOXES, AFTER THE BONES WERE
• 07:20 DEPOSITED IN THEM, USUALLY WERE
• 07:22 THEN PUT INTO CAVES IN
• 07:24 THE PROTECTED AREA WHERE
• 07:25 SOMETIMES WHOLE FAMILIES
• 07:27 KEPT TOGETHER THE BONES
• 07:30 OF THEIR FAMILY.
• 07:32 WE HAVE MANY.
• 07:33 WE HAVE MAYBE HUNDREDS
• 07:34 OF THOUSANDS OF BOXES LIKE
• 07:36 THESE OSSUARIES THAT WERE FOUND
• 07:37 IN THE COUNTRY.
• 07:39 BUT THIS OSSUARY IS SO SPECIAL
• 07:41 BECAUSE IT HAS AN INSCRIPTION
• 07:42 WHICH MENTIONS THE BONES,
• 07:45 THE NAME OF THE BONES
• 07:46 OF THE PERSON
• 07:47 THAT WAS BURIED IN THE BOX.
• 07:49 THE NAME THAT IS MENTIONED
• 07:50 IN HERE IS JOSEPHUS CAIAPHAS
• 07:54 AND THE FAMILY OF CAIAPHAS
• 07:55 IS WELL KNOWN TO US
• 07:56 FROM SEVERAL SOURCES;
• 07:58 THE FIRST SOURCE
• 07:59 BEING THE TALMUD.
• 08:01 WE KNOW ABOUT THE FAMILY
• 08:04 THAT THEY WERE HIGH PRIESTS
• 08:05 IN THE TEMPLE.
• 08:06 THEY WERE NOT OFTEN LIKED AT
• 08:08 THE PERIOD BUT IT WAS APPARENTLY
• 08:10 A VERY ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY
• 08:12 BELONGING TO THE GROUP OF JEWS
• 08:14 WHO WERE CALLED THE SADDUCEES.
• 08:17 THE SECOND CASE WE KNOW THE NAME
• 08:19 FROM IS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 08:21 THIS IS ONE OF
• 08:22 THE VERY FEW CASES THAT WE HAVE
• 08:24 AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• 08:26 FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 08:28 Tom: ONE OF THE FINDS,
• 08:29 WE UNDERSTAND, IN A TOMB
• 08:30 SIMILAR TO THIS, A SIMILAR TIME,
• 08:34 WAS A GREAT DISCOVERY
• 08:36 OF SCRIPTURE PORTION.
• 08:38 COULD YOU DESCRIBE THAT FOR US?
• 08:41 Gabi: THE TRUTH IS I COULD
• 08:42 STAND HERE FOR SEVERAL HOURS AND
• 08:44 TELL YOU ABOUT THAT DISCOVERY.
• 08:46 IT WAS MADE ABOUT A MILE AND
• 08:49 A HALF FROM HERE, ON THE WESTERN
• 08:51 SIDE OF ANCIENT JERUSALEM,
• 08:54 NOT FAR FROM THE JERUSALEM
• 08:56 RAILWAY STATION.
• 08:58 THE PLACE THERE
• 09:00 IS KNOWN AS KATEPH HINNOM,
• 09:02 OR THE SHOULDER OF HINNOM.
• 09:04 WE EXCAVATED THERE
• 09:06 UNDER MY DIRECTORSHIP
• 09:08 SEVEN BURIAL CAVES
• 09:10 DATING BACK TO 7th CENTURY BC.
• 09:13 ONE OF THEM WAS LOOTED IN
• 09:15 ANTIQUITY, BUT THE REPOSITORY
• 09:18 UNDERNEATH ONE OF THE BENCHES
• 09:21 ESCAPED THE FATE OF THE REST
• 09:23 OF THE CAVE AND IT INCLUDED
• 09:25 ALL THE GOODIES
• 09:27 WHICH WERE PLACED THERE,
• 09:28 TOGETHER WITH THE DECEASED,
• 09:30 ALL THE BURIAL GIFTS AND
• 09:31 THE BURIAL FURNITURE WERE FOUND
• 09:33 IN THEIR ORIGINAL POSITION
• 09:35 INSIDE THE REPOSITORY,
• 09:37 THANKS TO THE FACT THAT,
• 09:38 AS A RESULT OF AN EARTHQUAKE,
• 09:40 ONE LAYER OF THE CEILING GOT
• 09:42 UNPEELED, COLLAPSED AND BURIED
• 09:44 THE CONTENTS OF THE REPOSITORY
• 09:46 UNDERNEATH IT AND THE LOOTERS
• 09:48 THOUGHT THAT THE TOP
• 09:50 OF THE UNPEELED ROCK
• 09:52 FROM THE CEILING
• 09:55 WAS THE FLOOR AND, THEREFORE,
• 09:57 THEY LEFT IT UNTOUCHED.
• 10:00 WE HAD THERE A GUSHER OF FINDS.
• 10:02 MORE THAN 1,000 OBJECTS
• 10:03 IN ONE CHAMBER:
• 10:04 ABOUT 300 INTACT POTTERY VESSELS
• 10:08 WERE FOUND THERE,
• 10:10 ABOUT 40 ARROWHEADS OF IRON,
• 10:13 ALL KINDS OF PIECES OF JEWELRY,
• 10:15 ABOUT 120 PIECES OF SILVER, AND
• 10:19 VARIOUS OTHER PRECIOUS METALS
• 10:22 AND PRECIOUS OBJECTS,
• 10:23 SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, ETC.
• 10:26 ONE OF THE FINDS WAS TWO SMALL,
• 10:29 TINY PIECES, WHICH LOOKED
• 10:31 LIKE CIGARETTE BUTTS,
• 10:33 ROLLED UP TINY OBJECTS,
• 10:36 EACH OF THEM,
• 10:37 LESS THAN AN INCH IN LENGTH
• 10:40 AND LESS THAN
• 10:41 HALF AN INCH IN DIAMETER.
• 10:43 THEY WERE MADE OF PURE SILVER.
• 10:45 THEY WERE DISCOVERED
• 10:46 BY A YOUNG AMERICAN LADY.
• 10:49 THE FIRST ONE WAS OBSERVED
• 10:51 BY HER STILL IN THE GROUND.
• 10:53 HER NAME IS JUDY TEDLEY,
• 10:54 FROM TOLEDO, OHIO.
• 10:57 THE OBJECT, IT TOOK US ABOUT
• 11:00 THREE YEARS TO UNROLL IT
• 11:02 AND TO OUR SURPRISE, IT WAS MADE
• 11:04 OF PURE SILVER, 99% OF SILVER.
• 11:09 IT LOOKED LIKE
• 11:10 A STRAP OF SILVER.
• 11:12 IT WAS DENSELY COVERED WITH VERY
• 11:14 DELICATELY SCRATCHED CHARACTERS
• 11:17 IN THE ANCIENT HEBREW SCRIPT.
• 11:19 THE FIRST WORD TO BE DECIPHERED
• 11:21 WAS, TO MY SURPRISE, THE NAME
• 11:24 OF THE LORD, THE TETRAGRAMMATON,
• 11:26 OR WHAT WE ANGLICIZE SOMETIMES
• 11:29 AS "JEHOVAH,"
• 11:31 YOD(Y); HEY(H); VAV(V); HEY(H);
• 11:33 WHICH APPEARS IN
• 11:34 THE HEBREW BIBLE WHENEVER
• 11:35 THE ENGLISH BIBLE HAS THE WORD
• 11:37 "THE LORD."
• 11:38 LATER ON, WE DISCOVERED
• 11:39 THAT THE NAME OF THE LORD,
• 11:42 WHICH WAS FOR
• 11:43 THE FIRST TIME DISCOVERED
• 11:45 IN THE CITY OF THE LORD,
• 11:46 IN JERUSALEM, KEEPS REAPPEARING
• 11:49 SEVERAL MORE TIMES,
• 11:51 AND, OF COURSE, THAT REPETITION
• 11:53 RINGS A BELL, AND WE CAME UP
• 11:57 WITH A DECIPHERMENT OF
• 11:58 THE INSCRIPTION AND IT INCLUDED
• 12:01 ON BOTH PLAQUES, VERSIONS
• 12:03 OF THE PRIESTLY BENEDICTION,
• 12:06 WHICH APPEARS IN THE BIBLE
• 12:08 IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS 6:24-26.
• 12:13 "THE LORD BLESS THEE
• 12:14 AND KEEP THEE," ETC.,
• 12:16 BUT, OF COURSE,
• 12:17 IN THE HEBREW ORIGINAL.
• 12:19 THE WORDS START WITH...
• 12:23 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 12:26 "THE LORD BLESS THEE
• 12:27 AND KEEP THEE."
• 12:28 NOW, THE TEXT IS
• 12:31 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT
• 12:33 THAN THE MASORETIC TEXT,
• 12:34 WHICH IS PRESERVED IN THE BIBLE.
• 12:36 THE DIFFERENCES ARE SLIGHT,
• 12:38 BUT VERY INTERESTING.
• 12:39 THEY TEACH US, OF COURSE,
• 12:40 ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE TEXT
• 12:42 AND HOW IT WAS TRANSFERRED DOWN
• 12:45 TO US THROUGH THE GENERATIONS.
• 12:48 MORE THAN THAT, THESE WORDS,
• 12:50 THESE BIBLICAL VERSES ARE
• 12:52 THE OLDEST BIBLICAL VERSES
• 12:54 THAT WE OWN.
• 12:55 THEY BELONG TO
• 12:57 THE 7th CENTURY BC, TO THE TIME
• 12:59 OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH,
• 13:00 TO THE TIME OF KING JOSIAH.
• 13:02 THEY PREDATE THE VERY FAMOUS
• 13:04 DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 13:05 BY SEVERAL CENTURIES.
• 13:07 THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
• 13:11 SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS DISCOVERY,
• 13:12 BECAUSE WE HAVE HERE BIBLICAL
• 13:14 VERSES WHICH BELONG TO THE TIME
• 13:17 OF THE DAVIDIC DYNASTY,
• 13:18 FIRST TEMPLE PERIOD,
• 13:20 MUCH BEFORE THE CANONIZATION
• 13:23 OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT,
• 13:24 MUCH BEFORE IT GOT CRYSTALLIZED
• 13:26 AND COPIED AND BROUGHT DOWN
• 13:30 TO US VIA THE CHAIN
• 13:32 OF GENERATIONS OF COPIERS
• 13:37 AS WE HAVE IT TODAY.
• 13:38 SO, THIS IS BEFORE THE FINAL
• 13:40 CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE TEXT.
• 13:42 THIS IS IMPORTANT.
• 13:44 AND IT IS IMPORTANT ALSO
• 13:45 TO SEE A TEXT
• 13:46 WHICH IS SO SLIGHTLY CHANGED
• 13:48 FOR MORE THAN 2,600 YEARS.
• 14:02 Zola: COMING UP,
• 14:03 WE'LL EXAMINE THE IMPORTANCE
• 14:04 OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 14:05 AND WITNESS FURTHER EVIDENCE
• 14:07 OF THE BIBLE'S
• 14:08 IMPECCABLE ACCURACY.
• 14:12 ♪ ♪
• 14:21 ♪ ♪
• 14:47 Myles: WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
• 14:48 ON A TOUR TO ISRAEL.
• 14:49 YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH US
• 14:50 AT 1-800-WONDERS OR LEVITT.COM
• 14:53 AND BOOK A TOUR WITH US.
• 14:54 YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
• 14:55 EVERYONE THAT COMES TO ISRAEL
• 14:57 SAYS IT'S A LIFE-CHANGING EVENT.
• 14:59 SO PLEASE COME WITH US.
• 15:00 IT WOULD BE OUR JOY
• 15:01 TO HOST YOU THERE.
• 15:04 YOU KNOW, OUR OFFER THIS WEEK
• 15:05 IS THIS SERIES,
• 15:06 "THE STONES CRY OUT"
• 15:08 THE ORIGINAL SERIES,
• 15:09 IT'S 12 PROGRAMS, WHICH WILL
• 15:11 REALLY ENRICH YOUR FAITH,
• 15:12 EVEN THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS SPEAK
• 15:14 ABOUT HOW THE THINGS THAT THEY
• 15:16 DISCOVER REALLY JUST ENCOURAGE
• 15:19 THEM IN THEIR IN THEIR WORK
• 15:20 AND IN THEIR LIFE OF FAITH.
• 15:22 SO WE WANT TO MAKE THIS
• 15:23 AVAILABLE TO YOU THIS WEEK.
• 15:25 Katharine: IT REALLY BRINGS YOU
• 15:26 BACK TO THE TIME IN WHICH
• 15:27 THESE ANCIENT PEOPLE LIVED
• 15:29 AND YOU SEE HOW THEY LIVED,
• 15:31 THE TRIALS THEY HAD
• 15:35 AND THE LIFE THAT THEY LIVED
• 15:36 BEFORE THE LORD.
• 15:37 I MEAN, YOU KNOW,
• 15:38 THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 15:39 AND ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'VE
• 15:40 LEARNED SO FAR; SO WE THANK YOU
• 15:42 FOR YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 15:43 WE THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING
• 15:45 THIS MINISTRY SO THAT WE CAN GO
• 15:48 AND BRING YOU THESE STORIES
• 15:49 FROM ISRAEL, FROM THE LAND,
• 15:52 FROM THE ACTUAL PLACE
• 15:53 THAT THESE STONES ARE CRYING OUT
• 15:55 AND FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 15:57 WHO ARE TELLING THE STORY
• 15:58 OF THE BIBLE'S VALIDITY.
• 16:00 IT'S SO EXCITING
• 16:01 TO BE A PART OF THAT AND NOW...
• 16:03 WE'RE GOING TO QUMRAN
• 16:04 NEAR THE DEAD SEA.
• 16:06 Zola: IT'S DAWN IN ISRAEL
• 16:08 AND ARCHAEOLOGIST, STEVE PFANN,
• 16:10 PREPARES TO TAKE A READING
• 16:11 ON THE SUN ABOUT TO APPEAR
• 16:13 ABOVE THE DISTANT MOUNTAINS.
• 16:16 THIS IS QUMRAN,
• 16:17 THE HOME OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 16:19 AND IT'S HERE THAT STEVE HAS
• 16:20 COME TO MAKE HIS CALCULATIONS
• 16:22 BASED UPON
• 16:23 THIS ANCIENT SUN DIAL.
• 16:26 THE DEVICE WAS FOUND AMONG
• 16:27 THE RUINS OF QUMRAN IN 1954.
• 16:30 STEVE HAS PLACED A MAKESHIFT
• 16:31 BLUE STRAW IN THE PLACE
• 16:33 OF AN ORIGINAL METAL PIN,
• 16:34 AND THE SHADOW FORMED
• 16:36 INDICATES THE EXACT
• 16:37 TIME OF DAY,
• 16:38 AS WELL AS THE TIME OF YEAR.
• 16:40 THE SUNDIAL INFORMED
• 16:42 THE ESSENES, WHO ORIGINALLY
• 16:43 USED IT HERE 2,000 YEARS AGO,
• 16:45 EXACTLY WHEN THEY SHOULD
• 16:47 OBSERVE IMPORTANT EVENTS,
• 16:48 SUCH AS PASSOVER.
• 16:51 THE VIEW FROM THE ADJACENT
• 16:52 MOUNTAINS LOOKING TOWARD
• 16:53 THE RUINS OF THE ESSENE
• 16:54 COMMUNITY IS QUITE SPECTACULAR,
• 16:57 AS THE DEAD SEA GLISTENS
• 16:58 IN THE BACKGROUND.
• 17:00 TOM JOINS STEVE IN A CLIMB
• 17:02 OF THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SITE
• 17:03 WHERE THE FIRST
• 17:04 OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 17:06 WAS DISCOVERED.
• 17:07 THE SUBJECT OF THE SCROLLS
• 17:09 CONTINUES TO FASCINATE
• 17:10 AND INTRIGUE.
• 17:13 Steve: WE'RE SITTING ABOUT
• 17:14 150 YARDS ABOVE THE DEAD SEA.
• 17:18 THIS IS JUST ABOUT A KILOMETER,
• 17:21 OR 2/3rd OF A MILE TO THE NORTH
• 17:23 OF KHIRBET, QUMRAN,
• 17:24 WHERE THEY ESSENES LIVED.
• 17:26 HERE, A LITTLE LESS THAN
• 17:29 2,000 YEARS AGO, SOME OF
• 17:32 THE INHABITANTS OF QUMRAN
• 17:35 GOT THEIR PRIZED SCROLLS
• 17:37 AND HID THEM IN JARS
• 17:38 AND CARRIED THEM
• 17:39 UP TO THIS CAVE
• 17:40 THAT IS RIGHT BEHIND ME HERE.
• 17:41 Tom: THAT'S ONE OF THE CAVES
• 17:42 THAT THEY PUT THE JARS IN.
• 17:45 Steve: THIS WAS THE FIRST CAVE
• 17:46 THAT WAS DISCOVERED
• 17:47 THIS CENTURY, IN 1947,
• 17:50 IN THE WINTER.
• 17:52 A SHEPHERD WAS FOLLOWING HIS
• 17:54 SHEEP UP THE RIFT VALLEY HERE.
• 17:59 ACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL STORY,
• 18:00 HE WAS CHASING HIM UP
• 18:01 INTO THE HILLS, LOOKING FOR HIM
• 18:03 AND THREW A ROCK TO SCARE IT
• 18:05 BACK DOWN AND SAW THIS HOLE;
• 18:06 THREW THE ROCK INTO THE HOLE
• 18:08 IN THE CAVE
• 18:09 AND HEARD SOME CLINKING INSIDE.
• 18:11 THAT'S WHEN
• 18:12 THE WHOLE SAGA BEGAN.
• 18:14 Tom: HE KNEW IT SOUNDED
• 18:15 DIFFERENT FROM HITTING A ROCK
• 18:18 AND CAME TO INVESTIGATE IT THEN.
• 18:19 Steve: THAT'S RIGHT.
• 18:20 ONE STORY SAYS THAT HE THOUGHT
• 18:22 THAT THERE WAS A GENIE INSIDE
• 18:23 THAT WAS PROTECTING A TREASURE.
• 18:24 SO, HE WENT DOWN
• 18:25 AND GOT HIS BROTHER
• 18:26 TO COME BACK UP WITH HIM
• 18:29 SO THAT ONE OF THEM COULD GO IN
• 18:30 AND THE OTHER ONE COULD GO
• 18:31 FOR HELP IF THE GENIE ENDED UP
• 18:32 CAPTURING HIM.
• 18:34 SO, THEY WENT INSIDE AND WERE
• 18:36 DISAPPOINTED ONLY TO FIND
• 18:37 THESE LEATHER THINGS INSIDE
• 18:39 THESE JARS INSTEAD OF TREASURE.
• 18:41 Tom: IT TURNED OUT TO BE
• 18:42 ONE OF THE GREATEST TREASURES
• 18:43 FOR MANKIND.
• 18:44 Steve: INDEED.
• 18:45 Tom: YOU HAVE A SAMPLE OF ONE
• 18:47 OF THE SCROLLS THAT WAS FOUND.
• 18:50 WHAT DOES IT SAY?
• 18:51 Steve: THIS IS A REPLICA
• 18:53 OF A SCROLL THAT WAS TAKEN APART
• 18:57 AND, NOW, I'VE TAKEN THE PIECES
• 19:01 FROM VARIOUS PLACES
• 19:02 AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER.
• 19:04 IT'S CALLED
• 19:06 "THE COMMUNITY RULE,"
• 19:07 OR "THE MANUAL OF DISCIPLINE,"
• 19:08 WHICH IS THE LISTING
• 19:09 OF THE RULES.
• 19:11 THE FIRST TWO SHEETS DEAL WITH
• 19:12 THE ENTRANCE INTO THE COMMUNITY.
• 19:14 THE NOVICES AS THEY ENTER, AFTER
• 19:15 TWO YEARS OF THEIR NOVICESHIP,
• 19:19 END UP SAYING, FIRST OF ALL,
• 19:21 THAT THEY AND THEIR FATHERS HAVE
• 19:23 SINNED AND THEY HAVE SINNED, AND
• 19:25 THAT THEY WERE CALLING ON GOD
• 19:27 FOR HIS CLEANSING OF THEIR SINS
• 19:31 AS THEY ACTUALLY ENTERED INTO
• 19:32 THE WATERS OF ESSENE BAPTISM
• 19:34 FOR ENTRANCE INTO THE SITE.
• 19:37 Zola: THE WATERS OF BAPTISM,
• 19:39 HERE AT QUMRAN,
• 19:40 WERE CALLED " MIKVAOT."
• 19:42 JUST A SHORT DISTANCE FROM HERE
• 19:44 JOHN THE BAPTIST
• 19:45 IMMERSED THE LORD IN THE WATERS
• 19:46 OF THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 19:48 INTERESTINGLY, JOHN HAD MUCH
• 19:50 IN COMMON WITH THE ESSENES.
• 19:54 Steve: THEY CAME OUT TO
• 19:55 THE WILDERNESS TO TRY TO KEEP
• 19:56 THE RULES IN THE TORAH THE WAY
• 20:00 THAT GOD MEANT IT IN THE TORAH.
• 20:05 AND THE LAWS OF MOSES,
• 20:06 THEY WANTED TO APPLY
• 20:07 TO THEIR OWN LIVES.
• 20:08 THEY FELT THEY WERE CALLED
• 20:09 TO THE WILDERNESS
• 20:10 TO PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD.
• 20:12 THEY SAID, "THE WAY OF THE LORD
• 20:13 IS THE MIDRASH OF THE TORAH."
• 20:16 THAT MEANS,
• 20:17 THE STUDY OF THE TORAH.
• 20:18 SO, THEY ALWAYS HAD ONE PERSON
• 20:19 IN THEIR COMMUNITY
• 20:21 STUDYING IT ALL DAY LONG
• 20:22 AND THEN EVERY 3rd NIGHT
• 20:24 THEY HAD A VIGIL IN WHICH
• 20:25 EVERYONE STUDIED IT TOGETHER.
• 20:26 Tom: SO, DAY AND NIGHT,
• 20:27 SOMEBODY OR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
• 20:29 WAS STUDYING THE TORAH.
• 20:31 Steve: AND THEY WERE STUDYING
• 20:32 THE TORAH WITH A NEW ANGLE
• 20:35 THAN THEIR PREDECESSORS.
• 20:36 THEY WERE STUDYING
• 20:37 IN THE LIGHT OF THE PROPHETS,
• 20:39 WHICH WAS A VERY IMPORTANT
• 20:40 ELEMENT THAT A MAN
• 20:42 BY THE NAME OF "THE TEACHER OF
• 20:43 RIGHTEOUSNESS" BROUGHT TO THEM.
• 20:45 ALSO, HIS SUCCESSOR
• 20:46 IS KNOWN AS " THE MASKILIM ,"
• 20:47 THE SPIRITUAL LEADERS
• 20:48 OF THE GROUP,
• 20:51 CARRIED ON IN THAT TRADITION.
• 20:52 Tom: STEVE, I SEE YOU HAVE
• 20:53 DISCOVERED SOME INTERESTING
• 20:55 STONES THERE IN QUMRAN.
• 20:57 WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
• 20:59 Steve: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
• 21:00 THE ESSENES DID, WHICH THEY
• 21:02 CARRIED ON AND CAME OUT OF
• 21:04 THEIR PRIESTLY BACKGROUND WAS
• 21:07 IN DESIGNATING ROLES AND LEVELS
• 21:08 WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY.
• 21:10 THEY USED LOTS
• 21:11 TO DETERMINE THESE THINGS.
• 21:13 THERE AT THE SITE, IT WAS FOUND
• 21:15 BACK IN THE '50s, SOME 50
• 21:17 OF THESE LITTLE CLAY BALLS.
• 21:22 Tom: I SEE THEY'RE ROUND
• 21:23 AND THEY HAVE PIERCED HOLES
• 21:24 IN THEM.
• 21:27 Steve: YEAH, THEY HAVE
• 21:29 DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF HOLES.
• 21:31 EACH YEAR A PERSON WOULD RECEIVE
• 21:34 A NEW LOT, A NEW NUMBER.
• 21:36 THEY ALL ANSWERED
• 21:38 TO ONE ANOTHER, SAT IN ORDER
• 21:39 ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL
• 21:41 IN RANKING THAT THEY RECEIVED
• 21:42 FROM THIS AND ALSO WITHIN
• 21:44 THE COMMUNITY OF QUMRAN ITSELF,
• 21:46 WHICH WAS A VERY SPECIAL
• 21:47 COMMUNITY COMPARED TO
• 21:48 ALL THE OTHER COMMUNITIES
• 21:49 WHERE THERE WERE ALSO
• 21:50 MARRIED ESSENES LIVING.
• 21:52 THEY ACTUALLY, ON A DAILY BASIS,
• 21:54 USED THESE TO DETERMINE WHO
• 21:56 CARRIED OUT WHICH ROLE, WHICH
• 21:58 IS SIMILAR TO WHAT THE LEVITES
• 21:59 DID EVERY DAY UP IN THE TEMPLE
• 22:01 WHERE, IN THE GATES,
• 22:02 THEY WOULD DETERMINE THEIR ROLES
• 22:03 AND THEIR RANKS AND THEIR JOBS
• 22:07 ACCORDING TO LOTS.
• 22:09 Tom: AND THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT
• 22:10 THIS WAS THE EVIDENCE OF DIVINE
• 22:11 LEADING WHEN THEY DREW THE LOTS?
• 22:13 Steve: WELL, YES.
• 22:14 IT SAYS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 22:16 THAT, "MAN CASTS THE LOT
• 22:19 BUT GOD DETERMINES THE OUTCOME."
• 22:22 Zola: LOTS ARE MENTIONED
• 22:23 24 TIMES IN THE BIBLE.
• 22:25 IN JOSHUA 18:10 WE READ:
• 22:37 IN THE BOOK OF JOHN
• 22:38 WE FIND THAT LOTS WERE A PART
• 22:40 OF THE PSALMIST'S PROPHECY
• 22:41 REGARDING THE ROMAN SOLDIERS
• 22:42 CONTENTION FOR JESUS' CLOAK.
• 22:52 AND THIS IS
• 22:53 THE PSALMIST'S PROPHECY.
• 23:01 Steve: THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS GIVE
• 23:02 US A VERY REAL UNDERSTANDING
• 23:04 OF PEOPLE'S QUESTIONS,
• 23:06 THEIR FEARS, THEIR ASPIRATIONS,
• 23:08 WHICH HAD THEM PREPARED
• 23:10 FOR THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 23:11 TODAY, WE CAN LOOK BACK AT THAT
• 23:14 AND SEE THAT THE GOSPELS THAT WE
• 23:16 HOLD IN OUR HANDS, DO VERY MUCH
• 23:18 REFLECT THAT HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
• 23:21 Tom: MY TIME WITH STEVE
• 23:22 HAD REALLY PEAKED MY INTEREST
• 23:24 IN THE CAVE BEHIND HIM
• 23:26 DURING THE INTERVIEW.
• 23:27 SO, I DECIDED TO HAVE A LOOK
• 23:29 FOR MYSELF.
• 23:31 AMONG THE MORE VALUABLE WRITINGS
• 23:32 FOUND IN THE CAVE WERE THOSE
• 23:33 BY THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
• 23:35 ORIGINALLY WRITTEN HUNDREDS OF
• 23:36 YEARS BEFORE THE ESSENE SCRIBES
• 23:39 PRESERVED THEM
• 23:40 IN THEIR OWN HANDWRITING.
• 23:42 THE LEATHER SCROLLS HAD BEEN
• 23:43 HIDDEN HERE FOR 2,000 YEARS.
• 23:46 TODAY THE ISAIAH SCROLL
• 23:48 IS PRESERVED IN THE SHRINE
• 23:49 OF THE BOOK IN JERUSALEM, ALONG
• 23:51 WITH PORTIONS OF OTHER SCROLLS.
• 23:54 FOR THOSE WILLING
• 23:55 TO CONSIDER ITS MESSAGE,
• 23:57 ISAIAH'S PROPHETIC CHAPTER 53,
• 23:59 ABOUT THE COMING MESSIAH,
• 24:01 HAS BECOME AN ETERNAL FLAME
• 24:03 DISPELLING THE DARKNESS.
• 24:16 IN QUMRAN, THE ECHOES FROM
• 24:18 ROCKY CAVES CRY OUT, "I AM."
• 24:33 (♪ Soft Flute ♪)
• 25:06 Myles: WOW...THESE PROGRAMS
• 25:07 ARE SO FAITH BUILDING;
• 25:09 THEY'RE SO ENRICHING.
• 25:11 TO FIND OUT THAT DAVID
• 25:12 WAS A REAL PERSON;
• 25:13 HIS DYNASTY WAS REAL;
• 25:14 THAT PILATE WAS REAL,
• 25:16 AND CAIAPHAS,
• 25:17 THAT THE CITY OF HAZOR
• 25:19 WAS A REAL PLACE;
• 25:20 THAT EVERYTHING THAT'S WRITTEN
• 25:21 IN THIS WORD IS COMING ALIVE
• 25:23 AS ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE UNCOVERING
• 25:26 THE VERACITY OF THE BIBLE,
• 25:28 BECAUSE THE STONES
• 25:29 ARE CRYING OUT EVEN IN OUR DAY.
• 25:32 THIS PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY
• 25:33 THE RESOURCE WE WANT
• 25:34 TO OFFER YOU THIS WEEK.
• 25:35 IT'S THE SERIES,
• 25:36 THE ORIGINAL SERIES,
• 25:37 "THE STONES CRY OUT,"
• 25:38 AND IT'S 12 PROGRAMS LONG.
• 25:40 IT HAS EVERYTHING THAT
• 25:41 YOU'RE SEEING IN THIS SERIES,
• 25:44 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT THIS
• 25:45 IS A REALLY GOOD TOOL FOR YOU TO
• 25:47 GATHER YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
• 25:49 AROUND AND TO HELP THEM
• 25:51 TO UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTION
• 25:53 BETWEEN FAITH AND THE BIBLE;
• 25:55 BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE LAND;
• 25:57 BETWEEN THE LAND
• 25:58 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:59 THIS IS A REALLY VERY CONNECTING
• 26:02 KIND OF A PROGRAM SERIES.
• 26:05 SO WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU
• 26:06 TO GET THIS RESOURCE.
• 26:07 Katharine: IT'S SO EDIFYING
• 26:08 TO KNOW THAT NOT ONLY
• 26:11 DOES GOD SAY IT
• 26:12 BUT THEN HE SHOWS IT
• 26:14 AND WE CAN STAND KNOWING
• 26:16 THAT WHAT HE SAYS IS TRUE.
• 26:18 THE BIBLE IS REAL AND THE FACTS
• 26:20 ARE CONTINUING TO BE UNEARTHED
• 26:22 AS WE SEE
• 26:23 THESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS.
• 26:25 AND THERE'S MORE DIGS
• 26:27 GOING ON TODAY.
• 26:28 AT ANY GIVEN TIME THERE ARE DIGS
• 26:30 THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE LAND
• 26:31 OF ISRAEL.
• 26:32 SO WE LOVE TO STAND
• 26:33 WITH THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS.
• 26:34 Myles: WE HAVE A FUND.
• 26:35 WE HAVE A BENEVOLENCE FUND
• 26:36 CALLED "THE STONES CRY OUT,"
• 26:39 BASED ON THE NAME OF THE SERIES
• 26:41 WHERE WE ACTUALLY TAKE GIFTS
• 26:42 OF FUNDS THAT COME IN, THAT ARE
• 26:43 DESIGNATED FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS,
• 26:45 SO THAT WE CAN PARTICIPATE
• 26:47 WITH THE UNEARTHING
• 26:48 OF THESE TREASURES.
• 26:49 Katharine: RIGHT, IT'S VERY
• 26:50 EXCITING AND WHEN WE GO
• 26:51 TO ISRAEL, WE'LL TAKE YOU
• 26:52 TO SOME OF THESE SITES...
• 26:53 MEGIDDO...QUMRAN...
• 26:55 AND A LOT OF OTHER ONES.
• 26:58 SO WE ARE SO THANKFUL
• 27:00 FOR YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 27:01 WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT, NOT ONLY
• 27:02 DO YOU GIVE TO THE LAND ITSELF,
• 27:05 BUT YOU'RE GIVING TO THE PEOPLE.
• 27:07 WE ALSO HAVE A BENEVOLENCE FUND
• 27:09 THAT WILL GO TO THE JEWS FIRST
• 27:10 AND WE'RE OUT THERE
• 27:13 SHARING OUR FAITH
• 27:14 IN A VERY APPROACHABLE,
• 27:15 TANGIBLE WAY WITH PEOPLE
• 27:16 AND PEOPLE ARE COMING
• 27:17 TO SAVING FAITH, AND THAT'S
• 27:19 THE HIGHEST JOY, RIGHT?
• 27:21 Myles: YEAH, AS WE'RE
• 27:22 BRINGING THE TOUR TO ISRAEL
• 27:24 WE HAVE DR. TODD BAKER WITH US.
• 27:26 HE'S OUR STAFF
• 27:27 THEOLOGIAN/CHAPLAIN AND
• 27:29 HE TAKES THE GOSPEL OUT
• 27:31 TO THE STREETS, TO THE JEW FIRST
• 27:32 AND ALSO TO THE GREEK.
• 27:34 AND WE'RE SEEING PEOPLE
• 27:35 COME TO THE LORD THROUGH THAT.
• 27:36 SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE DO
• 27:37 HERE AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 27:40 SO, UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN...
• 27:42 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU,
• 27:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 27:45 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
• 27:46 OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:52 Male Singer: ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN ♪
• 27:59 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
• 28:08 ♪ THE EARTH STANDS A TRIBUTE TO GLORY ♪
• 28:16 ♪ STONES TELL YOUR WONDERFUL STORY. ♪♪
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