Jul 26 2006
What Timing…
From Y-Net News:
Book of Psalms found when construction worker drove a shovel of his backhoe into a bog
(AP) Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.
The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries.
“This is really a miracle find,” said Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, which has the book stored in refrigeration and facing years of painstaking analysis before being put on public display.
The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations’ attempts to wipe out the name of Israel.
That Psalm reads (in part):
See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83:2-4, NIV)
The more things change, the more they stay the same….
