[Avodah] Archeological Evidence -- The Maximalists Win Again

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

>From the Weekly Standard
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/in-hezekiahs-tunnel/article/2006193>

    ... The bible refers to the despoiling of a shrine to Ba'al: the
    King (not Hezekiah but Jehu, a slightly earlier king of Israel)
    "broke down the house of Ba'al, and made it a draught-house"--i.e.,
    made it a bathroom.

    This was assumed by many to have been a metaphor. But a few weeks
    ago, excavations at Lacish found remnants of a pagan altar room, and
    inside it, a smashed altar, and beside that, seals of Hezekiah, and
    beside those, in perfect condition, an unmistakable stone-hewn privy.
    ...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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