"The reading which best explains the variants is to be preferred. For example, Ps. [[22:16|bible.19.22.16]] (Mtt. [[22:17|bible.61.22.17]]) reads K'RY YDY WRGLY, which, as pointed by the Masoretes. . . means 'like the lion my hands and my feet'. . . The Hebrew column in the Complutensian Polyglot reads K'RW, vocalized as Ka'RuW, which means 'they have bored through.' Which reading best explains the variants (in this case, the reading in the versions)? Probably the second reading, for the LXX, the Peshitta, the Vulgate, and even Jerome's Hebrew Psalter all read, 'They have dug through' or 'pierced.'"
Ref-0001, p. 65.
Pilate's official residence was the Mediterranean seaboard city of Caesarea Maritima. In 1961, during Italian-sponsored excavations at Caesarea's Roman theater, a stone plaque bearing Pilate's name was discovered. The Latin inscription of four lines gives his title as "pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea," a title very similar to that used of him in the Gospels (Luke 3.1). See
F00036, p. 24 for a photo of the inscription.
Infrared satellite may have revealed the lost Pishon River, long buried by desert sands, in the riverbed Farouk El-Baz, which runs from Hijaz in western Arabia to Kuwait. (Caution: if the flood was truly cataclysimic then the modern rivers may only bear resemblance to memories of the previous rivers in a totally different place and terrain.)
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