puricare chronicles: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR PROPHET ISAIAH - According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC. Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did. Recently, Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar and her team made a stunning discovery during excavations in Jerusalem. It provides strong support for the reality of Isaiah and his Old Testament world. Digging at the base of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, the team found a clay seal bearing Isaiah’s name. Mazar provided a transliteration of this Isaiah bulla in Biblical Archaeology Review as “Yesha‘yah[u] Nvy[?],” where brackets indicate unknown letters from damage to the clay. “Yesha‛yahu” is “Isaiah.” If the Hebrew letter aleph stood in place of the missing letter “[?],” then the word after “Isaiah” would spell “prophet.” Possibly the hand of Isaiah himself formed this seal. In 2015, only ten feet away, the team had found a clay impression called a bulla bearing King Hezekiah’s seal. According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR PROPHET ISAIAH - According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC. Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did. Recently, Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar and her team made a stunning discovery during excavations in Jerusalem. It provides strong support for the reality of Isaiah and his Old Testament world. Digging at the base of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, the team found a clay seal bearing Isaiah’s name. Mazar provided a transliteration of this Isaiah bulla in Biblical Archaeology Review as “Yesha‘yah[u] Nvy[?],” where brackets indicate unknown letters from damage to the clay. “Yesha‛yahu” is “Isaiah.” If the Hebrew letter aleph stood in place of the missing letter “[?],” then the word after “Isaiah” would spell “prophet.” Possibly the hand of Isaiah himself formed this seal. In 2015, only ten feet away, the team had found a clay impression called a bulla bearing King Hezekiah’s seal. According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC.

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Archaeological Evidence for Prophet Isaiah

According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC. Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did.

BY BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Recently, Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar and her team made a stunning discovery during excavations in Jerusalem.

It provides strong support for the reality of Isaiah and his Old Testament world.

Digging at the base of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, the team found a clay seal bearing Isaiah’s name.

Mazar provided a transliteration of this Isaiah bulla in Biblical Archaeology Review as “Yesha‘yah[u] Nvy[?],” where brackets indicate unknown letters from damage to the clay.

“Yesha‛yahu” is “Isaiah.”

If the Hebrew letter aleph stood in place of the missing letter “[?],” then the word after “Isaiah” would spell “prophet.”

Possibly the hand of Isaiah himself formed this seal.

In 2015, only ten feet away, the team had found a clay impression called a bulla bearing King Hezekiah’s seal.

According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king.

The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris.

This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC.

Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did.

These two bullae wreck decades of Bible-doubting scholarship.

For example, skeptics have long claimed that unknown authors compiled the book of Isaiah sometime during the Babylonian captivity — centuries after the biblical time of Hezekiah’s life and reign.

Supposedly, collections of scribes somehow borrowed from Babylonian myths to fabricate biblical events from the beginning of the world through the time of Kings.

But poor scholarship underlies these speculations.

Perhaps the unbiblical, and now archaeologically-inaccurate, assertion that Isaiah did not exist conveys a desire to thwart precise prophecies of Jesus.

One way to try to erase the miracle of fulfilled prophecy is to deny that Scripture was written long before the foretold events.

Similar attempts to delete other miracles — like Creation, the Flood, and the Exodus — abound, just as Peter forewarned.

A handful of Isaiah prophecies strikingly confirm details of Jesus’ life as recorded in the New Testament and confirmed by many eyewitnesses:

Detail of Jesus' Life	Prophecy	Fulfilment
Born of a virgin	Isaiah 7:14	Matthew 1:18
Remained silent at execution	Isaiah 53:7	Matthew 26:63
Died like a sinner	Isaiah 53:8	Matthew 27:50
Buried in a rich man's grave	Isaiah 53:9	Matthew 27:57
Rose from the dead	Isaiah 53:10	Matthew 28:6
Saves sinners	Isaiah 53:11	Acts 5:31

Before these tandem discoveries, those who accepted Isaiah as a real prophet had the New Testament to verify Isaiah’s prophetic words. Now, they have the New Testament plus a couple of profound pieces of archaeology.

Brian Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.

The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) wants people to know that God’s Word can be trusted in everything it speaks about—from how and why we were made, to how the universe was formed, to how we can know God and receive all He has planned for us.

After 50 years of ministry, ICR remains a leader in scientific research within the context of biblical creation. Founded by Dr. Henry Morris in 1970, ICR exists to conduct scientific research within the realms of origins and Earth history, and then to educate the public both formally and informally through professional training programs, through conferences and seminars around the country, and through books, magazines, and media presentations.

https://www.icr.org/article/archaeological-evidence-for-prophet-isaiah/

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