نقش الملك التوراتي يهوآش : نموذج لتزوير التاريخ الفلسطيني

Abstract EN

Three geologists from Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) of Israel's Infrastructures Ministry disclosed in January 2003 that they had authenticated a stone tablet purported to be inscribed in the age of Jehoash who in the Biblical narrative was the king of Judea and ruled in Jerusalem at the end of the ninth century B.C.E.

In the l5-line tablet, written in Hebrew in ancient Phoenician script, Johoash lauds the repair work he carried out in "Solomon's Temple" in a manner which resembles that of passages in the Bible telling the same event.

The disclosure of the inscription has aroused a storm.

The geologists themselves and other scholars deemed it to be a first-of-its kind piece of extra-biblical evidence describing events in a manner that adheres to the narrative in the Bible.

In this sense, it confirms the existence of the "First Temple" and hence vindicates Jewish claims to the "Temple Mount" - the location of al-Masjid al- Aqsa.

Other scholars believe the inscription is a forgery.

These included prominent archaeologists, paleographers, experts on the ancient Semitic languages and epigraphers.

They rested their verdict on thorough examinations of the inscription (its material, language and scripts) and the report of the GSI team, concluding that the tablet cannot be considered ancient'