Joseph's Tomb destroyed by Palestinians Where is the BODY?

[SonWorshipper]

Does anyone here have any info on this? I recall earlier this year hearing about this and was very angered over it, it seems that nothing is sacred amoung those that are the children of Ismael regarding their brothers, including the resting in peace of the remains.

I got to wondering if the tomb did in fact hold the body of Joseph of which would be embalmed according to the Bible?

On this same note did anyone here catch the special on the Discovery Channel on Wednesday night under their new searies Ancient Mysteries solved? They focused on Joseph and added much historical and acrhiological evidence that I had not formally known. I was surprised after their typical introduction of Did the myth of Joseph really happen? and other slurs on the validity of the word. But in the end they practically admitted that the whole story was true and validated the Exodus along with it! :clap:
For some reason I think that more and more of the Bible will be validated in the very near future, but not really in favor of the L-rd, more for someone elses sake.:sigh:

[Superman]

No, I hadn't heard Jospeh's tomb was desecrated, perhaps his traditional resting place is really elswhere?

And yeah, I saw that special on Ancient Evidence. I wish I'd taped it. That had a lot of great "circumstantial" evidence to support the Joseph story.

My favorites were the "Waterway of Joseph" and the statue found in a tomb of an unknown prime minister (found in a recently discovered Semite village precicely where Genesis says there was) that was painted up ike a Semite.

[Aethelsige]

It is quite possible that the collecting of sacred relics by the church in the Middle Ages is the reason that the body is not there.

[SonWorshipper]

Have you read somewhere that the Catholic church has this in it's possesion? I should think that being a "Jewish buried body" they would not have wanted anything to do with it, not being of the Saints and all.

[SonWorshipper]

This is very interesting:


Adjacent to the ruins of the palace, there is an elegant garden area, and in the garden was an unusual tomb. The tomb was in the shape of a small pyramid, but it is clear that the vault was broken into and the remains removed. However, the damage to the tomb was not like that done by the all too common grave robbers of Egypt. It appears to be a careful and methodical removal of bricks from the tomb, as one would expect where the bones of Joseph were carefully removed from his long-used grave by Moses. Could it be that we have here the very tomb of the great patriarch Joseph? The evidence certainly takes it out of the realm of mythology, even for the hardened scientist, and into the realm of accurate history.



Jacob's son Joseph was buried in a GARDEN TOMB? I know that there are similarities with Joseph as the kinsman redeemer for his apostate and rebellion breathern the rest of Israel but this is another great clue, don't you think? :)

http://www.levitt.com/essays/joseph.html

[SonWorshipper]

A statement by the 15-member EU said the body "condemns without reserve" yesterday's events at the site, in which Palestinian gunmen and civilians stormed the tomb and the adjacent Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, ripping apart prayer books and commentaries and setting fire to parts of the compound in a show of triumph, just hours after the IDF evacuated the sitePalestinians destroy Joseph the Patriarchs Tomb (http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct00/tomb.html)

[SonWorshipper]

I think I have uncovered the "spiritual reasoning".

NABLUS is the current modern name for ancient SHECHEM
Genesis 12
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Genesis 33
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18 And Jacob came to Shalem,( Salem, Jerusalem) , a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Genesis 34
1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Genesis 35
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

Genesis 37
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
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11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.


Joshua 17
1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph


7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;


Joshua 21
1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,


Joshua 24
1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. ( same as Joseph)
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.



Jeremiah 41

1 Now it came to pass in the the,seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, even the men of war.




In the Seventh month is Rosh Teruah, and Yom Kippor as well as Succot(h)





Samaritans built their Temple on Mt. Gerizim in the 4th century BCE. Their shrine was converted into a Temple to Zeus by Antiochus II in 170 BCE

[SonWorshipper]

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