The price for the handwritten parchment volume, one of the world s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, outstrips the £31m Bill Gates paid for Leonardo da Vinci s Codex Leicester in 1994, while a rare copy of the US Constitution went for £34m two years ago.
The wicked reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel is summarized in the Bible as follows: 1 Kings 16:29-33 (RSV) In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of I offer various archaeological evidences of the time-period and various aspects and events regarding wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, in the 9th c. B.C.
This exciting find was announced on the Bible History Daily website, in conjunction with the Biblical Archaeology Society: On May 23, 2012 the Israel A bulla (clay seal), from Bethlehem, dated to the 8th century B.C. was found in the City of David region of Jerusalem in 2012: the earliest certain extrabiblical evidence.
The existence of an ancient people who were frequent adversaries of the Israelites in the Old Testament has been corroborated by a pair of tablets from Iraq.