[Avodah] Archaeologists discover 7, 000-year-old Jerusalem settlement

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 02/18/2016 05:36 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> According to Bereishis 4:22, Tuval-Qayin "loteish kol choreish nechoshes
> uvarzel". Either the person who launched the Chalcolithic era, thus the
> father of all metal workers, or the one who ivented Bronze, the one who
> launed working with nechoshes with another metal as a unit. (Tin is iron
> colored, no?)

Tin is "bedil", not "barzel".   The pasuk in Matos lists the six metals
known in antiquity, and iron and tin are two of them.

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