Dixie Dawg
Senior Member
From one of my Israeli email groups, thought I'd pass it on to you! 
ANCIENT BOOK OF PSALMS FOUND OPEN TO PSALM 83
Rabbis all over the world are asking people to recite psalm
83 for the safety of the Jewish people and success for Israel's war.
An ancient book of Psalms (Tehillim) was "miraculously" found in the
mud yesterday, in Ireland, dating back to the years 800-1000, open
to PSALM 83 (pey gimel) - the 1st which the Rabbinate of Israel led
Jews all around the world to say on the SAME DAY!
HaShem is SPEAKING TO US, ISRAEL!!!
Medieval Psalmbook Dug Out of Irish Bog
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205525,00.html
Medieval Psalmbook Dug Out of Irish Bog
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
DUBLIN, Ireland - 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.
"There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out. First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing."
He said an engineer was digging up bogland last week to create commercial potting soil somewhere in Ireland's midlands when, "just beyond the bucket of his bulldozer, he spotted something."
Wallace would not specify where the book was found because a team of archaeologists is still exploring the site.
"The owner of the bog has had dealings with us in past and is very much in favor of archaeological discovery and reporting it," Wallace said.
Crucially, he said, the bog owner covered up the book with damp soil.
Had it been left exposed overnight, he said, "it could have dried out and just vanished, blown away."
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.
Wallace said several experts spent Tuesday analyzing only that page -
the number of letters on each line, lines on each page, size of page - and the book's binding and cover, which he described as "leather velum, very thick wallet in appearance."
It could take months of study, he said, just to identify the safest way to pry open the pages without damaging or destroying them. He ruled out the use of X-rays to investigate without moving the pages.
For those who don't know, the psalm reads as follows:
"A song, a psalm of Asaph
G-d do not hold Your silence, be not silent and be not still
Almighty. For behold, Your enemies are in an uproar and those who hate you have lifted up their head.
Against Your people they plot deceitfully, and they conspire against those sheltered by You.
They say "Come, let us cut them off from nationhood, let Israel's name be remembered no more"
For they conspire together with a unanimous heart, against You they make a covenant.
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Even Assyria is joined with them, they become a supporting arm to the children of Lot, Selah.
Do unto them as with Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river bed of Kishon.
They were destroyed at Ein Dor, they became dung for the soil.
Make their nobles, like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebach and Zalmuna, all their princes.
Who said, "Let us inhereit for ourselves the pleasant habitations of G-d".
My G-d, make them like whirling chaff, like straw before the wind.
Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that ignites the mountains.
So pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Fill their faces with shame, then they will seak Your Name, HaShem.
Let them be ashamed and terrified, forever, and let them be humiliated and perish.
Then they will know that You Whose Name is HaShem, are alone, the Most High over all the earth.
ANCIENT BOOK OF PSALMS FOUND OPEN TO PSALM 83
Rabbis all over the world are asking people to recite psalm
83 for the safety of the Jewish people and success for Israel's war.
An ancient book of Psalms (Tehillim) was "miraculously" found in the
mud yesterday, in Ireland, dating back to the years 800-1000, open
to PSALM 83 (pey gimel) - the 1st which the Rabbinate of Israel led
Jews all around the world to say on the SAME DAY!
HaShem is SPEAKING TO US, ISRAEL!!!
Medieval Psalmbook Dug Out of Irish Bog
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205525,00.html
Medieval Psalmbook Dug Out of Irish Bog
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
DUBLIN, Ireland - 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.
"There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out. First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing."
He said an engineer was digging up bogland last week to create commercial potting soil somewhere in Ireland's midlands when, "just beyond the bucket of his bulldozer, he spotted something."
Wallace would not specify where the book was found because a team of archaeologists is still exploring the site.
"The owner of the bog has had dealings with us in past and is very much in favor of archaeological discovery and reporting it," Wallace said.
Crucially, he said, the bog owner covered up the book with damp soil.
Had it been left exposed overnight, he said, "it could have dried out and just vanished, blown away."
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.
Wallace said several experts spent Tuesday analyzing only that page -
the number of letters on each line, lines on each page, size of page - and the book's binding and cover, which he described as "leather velum, very thick wallet in appearance."
It could take months of study, he said, just to identify the safest way to pry open the pages without damaging or destroying them. He ruled out the use of X-rays to investigate without moving the pages.
For those who don't know, the psalm reads as follows:
"A song, a psalm of Asaph
G-d do not hold Your silence, be not silent and be not still
Almighty. For behold, Your enemies are in an uproar and those who hate you have lifted up their head.
Against Your people they plot deceitfully, and they conspire against those sheltered by You.
They say "Come, let us cut them off from nationhood, let Israel's name be remembered no more"
For they conspire together with a unanimous heart, against You they make a covenant.
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Even Assyria is joined with them, they become a supporting arm to the children of Lot, Selah.
Do unto them as with Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river bed of Kishon.
They were destroyed at Ein Dor, they became dung for the soil.
Make their nobles, like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebach and Zalmuna, all their princes.
Who said, "Let us inhereit for ourselves the pleasant habitations of G-d".
My G-d, make them like whirling chaff, like straw before the wind.
Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that ignites the mountains.
So pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Fill their faces with shame, then they will seak Your Name, HaShem.
Let them be ashamed and terrified, forever, and let them be humiliated and perish.
Then they will know that You Whose Name is HaShem, are alone, the Most High over all the earth.
