The article says the exhibit [is] drawn from a museum in Israel. Yet..are these the looted artifacts

[flordehinojos]

that were looted from Baghdad at the beginning of Bush's illegal, immoral, and criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq, i wonder?!
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"David Mevorah hears voices in stone.

Artifacts that tell him of Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ. Explain how Jews and Christians lived together for centuries. Embody the devotion of pilgrims who wanted to touch holiness.

As curator of "Cradle of Christianity: Jewish and Christian Treasures from the Holy Land," Mevorah would like to help you hear the stones, too.

"Behind the stones are people's minds," he said at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, where the exhibit will open on Thursday. "Their hopes and fears and beliefs. Their rituals and skills.

"We want the stones to tell their stories."

The exhibit, drawn from a show at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, has some of the greatest treasures of biblical archaeology: the burial box of Caiaphas, the high priest who condemned Jesus; the only known inscription with the name of Pontius Pilate, the governor who sentenced Jesus to be crucified; pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the astonishing cache of ancient texts found in the Judean desert more than a generation ago." SNIP


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ccradle06dec06,0,4409630.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

click on the link to read full article

[GreenZoneLT]

1. Why would the museum in Baghdad have Palestinian artifacts?

Those are Israelite-Roman antiquities; why would they have been in Baghdad?

[flordehinojos]

3. a lot of artifacts were looted from Baghdad at the start of Bush's invasion/occupation of Iraq.

Iraq has been referred to, as i have read, as the cradle of Christianity. The way the article was written made me think that these artifacts from the cradle of christianity may have been the looted ones ... and i wouldn't put past any righteous right wing christian museum to be exhibiting such artifacts... though i thank you for correcting me in my lack of factual knowledge about the artifacts mentioned in the article.

[papau]

2. Caiaphas ossuary (bone box) was found in a park just south of the Old City of Jerusalem

The Caiaphas family tomb was accidentally discovered by workers constructing a road in a park just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. Archaeologists were hastily called to the scene. When they examined the tomb they found 12 ossuaries (limestone bone boxes) containing the remains of 63 individuals. The most beautifully decorated of the ossuaries was inscribed with the name "Joseph son of (or, of the family of) Caiaphas." That was the full name of the high priest who arrested Jesus, as documented by Josephus (Antiquities 18: 2, 2; 4, 3). Inside were the remains of a 60-year-old male, almost certainly those of the Caiaphas of the New Testament. This remarkable discovery has, for the first time, provided us with the physical remains of an individual named in the Bible.