Archaeological Findings Proving History Correct From Old Testament (Tanakh)

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                           

      Eilat Mazar places her hand into the impression created by a large pithos pottery vessel in 1986. ESTATE OF DR. EILAT MAZAR 

Not only are many rabbinical families' professions an inherited interest and vocation; archaeology is also.  I see that Dr. Eilat Mazar is the young archaeologist who followed in her grandfather's footsteps in discovery while working on King Solomon.From the September-October 2022 Let the Stones Speak Magazine Issue

T

hough Dr. Eilat Mazar is best known for her work in the City of

 David, she spent most of her career excavating the Ophel, part of ancient

Jerusalem from the time of the Kings; first mentioned by Micah (4:8)

and Isaiah(32:14) according to II Chronicles.  (27:3) Jothan "built much

on the wall of Ophel."

It was on the Ophel, south of the southern Temple Mount wall, where Eilat developed a  passion for archaeology as a young child, helping on her grandfather’s “Big Dig,” Temple Mount excavations that spanned from

1968 to 1978.  Today, the name, Ophel, has been extended to mean the 

whole area of the city of David South of the Temple Mount. 

Her grandfather was  Binyamin (Maisler) Mazar (born in 1906-an Israel

 scholar, born in Russia and was Jewish, settling in Palestine in 1929.  He

Joined the staff at Hebrew University  in 1943, and became professor of 

biblical history  in 1950.  Then he became president of the University 

from 1953-1963. 

 He has excavated at Ramat Rachel, En Gedi, Tel el Kasile, Bet Shearim,

 etc. 

 After 1968, he excavated the Southern and Western walls of the Temple Compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. His major works include a 

history of Palestine up to the period of the monarchy and a historical  

atlas of the country.  

Geneaology:    from Geni                                   

Binyamin Zeev Mazar (Maisler), Prof. Hebrew: בנימין מזר (מייזלר), פרופ׳
Birthdate:	June 28, 1906
Birthplace:	Ciechanowiec, Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Death:	August 09, 1995 (89) Jerusalem, Israel
Immediate Family:	Son of Chaim Maisler and Rebecca Maisler Husband of Dina Mazar Father of Ori Mazar Brother of רחל פינקלשטיין; Fishel Maisler; Malka Peles and Hanoch Mazar

From the September-October 2022 Let the Stones Speak Magazine IssueWhen Jerusalem archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar died on May 

25, 2021 at age 64, the world lost a truly extraordinary person. 

Dr. Eilat Mazar excavated Jerusalem for over 50 years. Born in 

Jerusalem in 1956, Eilat began her archaeological career at age 11, when

 she worked alongside her grandfather, the late Prof. Benjamin Mazar, on

 his Temple Mount excavations.

Benjamin Mazar was a founding father of the modern Jewish state. He

 was central to the establishment of Hebrew University and the Israel 

Exploration Society, as well as numerous other intellectual and public

 institutions in Israel. 

Eilat Mazar, a nonreligious archaeologist, stated by a Christian outlet but not knowing that she was Jewish  who embraced the unfashionable idea of digging with a shovel in one hand and a Bible in the other, died Tuesday at 64 (1956-2021).

In her five decades excavating Eretz Yisrael, Mazar discovered the remains of a palace believed to belong to King David, a gate identified with King Solomon, a wall thought to have been built by Nehemiah, two clay seals that name the captors of the prophet Jeremiah, seals that name King Hezekiah, and a seal that may have belonged to the prophet Isaiah.

Once called the “queen of Jerusalem archaeology,” Mazar took the Bible seriously as a historical text and quarreled with scholars who thought it was unscientific to pay too much attention to Scripture.  Since all her soources were from the Old Testament, one realizes that "The Bible" meant just that. our Tanakh-Hebrew for "Bible."  I claim her back as being very Jewish.  

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