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The Newark, Ohio Decalogue and Keystone
"If you found a US penny in a trench at a dig that was assumed to contain only ancient items, you wouldn't claim the penny was a forgery. First, you would have to recognize that it's a penny." - Rochelle I. Altman
A stone bowl (mikveh) was found with the Decalogue, by one of the persons accompanying Wyrick. By Wyrick's account, it was of the capacity of a teacup, and of the same material as the box. Wyrick believed both the box and the cup had once been bronzed (Alrutz, pp. 21-2), though this has not been confirmed. The bowl was long neglected, but was found recently in the storage rooms of the Johnson- Humrickhouse Museum by Dr. Bradley Lepper of the Ohio Historical Society.
June of 1860 - The Water Flow Detector (keystone) was found in about a mile from Newark in a pit at the edge of the nearby "great stone works." -
November 1, 1860 - The hand-tefillah (magic/phylactery) decalouge, still nested in its case, and the Mikveh (water bowl) were found in close proximity to each other in one of many Indian burial mounds on. Two unusual "eight-square plumb bobs" were also found with the Decalogue stone.
The Decalouge stone, the keystone/flow detector & the stone bowl, appear to form a Mikveh set was meant for use by a Hasidic/Mosaic Jews while traveling.
In 1863, a report, issued by Dr. Arnold Fischel, visiting Rabbi "of Ampsterdam" - (Letter to Arnold, from Abraham Lincoln - 1861)
The committee appointed by the Ethnological Society pf the Smithsonian Institution, stated that Fischel assumed that the artifacts had been stolen from a European settler and that they had been "planted." - Fischel stated this because of the information revealed by the artifacts, particularly with regard to the antiquity of certain Jewish traditions...
The Smithsonian committee accepted Dr. Fischel's assessment ...
The Smithsonian committee accepted Dr. Fischel's assessment ...
officially saying that "they could NOT label the items as "fakes"
officially saying that "they could NOT label the items as "fakes"
An interview in the Jan/Feb 1998 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review ("The Enigma of Qumran," pp. 24 ff) sheds light on the possible significance of the stone bowl. The interviewer, Hershel Shanks, asked how we would know that Qumran, the settlement adjacent to the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, was Jewish, if there had been no scrolls. The four archaeologists interviewed gave several reasons -- the presence of ritual baths, numerous Hebrew-inscribed potsherds, and its location in Judea close to Jerusalem. Then Hanan Eshel, senior lecturer in archaeology at Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University gave a fourth reason:
ESHEL: We also have a lot of stone vessels.
SHANKS: Why is that significant?
ESHEL: Stone vessels are typical of Jews who kept the purity laws. Stone vessels do not become impure.
SHANKS: Why?
ESHEL: Because that is what the Pharisaic law decided. Stone doesn't have the nature of a vessel, and therefore it is always pure.
SHANKS: Is that because you don't do anything to transform the material out of which it is made, in contrast to, say, a clay pot, whose composition is changed by firing?
ESHEL: Yes. Probably. Stone is natural. You don't have to put it in an oven or anything like that. Purity was very important to Jews in the late Second Temple period. (p. 26)
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Notes:
https://bookofmormonevidence.org/america-unearthed-holy-stone-analysis
https://bookofmormonevidence.org/more-evidence-newark-holy-stones
Glen Beck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i80Txb04pXc
The Ten Commandments of Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeEPGxcfbK8
Holy Stones of Newark Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVCtliXqGoI
Robert Alrutz, "The Newark Holy Stones: The History of an Archaeological Tragedy," Journal of the Scientific Laboratories, Denison University, 1980, 57: 1-57. Copies available from the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Roscoe Village, 300 Whitewoman St., Coshocton, Ohio. Phone (740) 622-8710. Plaster casts of the Decalogue stone and Keystone may also be purchased from the Museum.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, Vol. 4. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
Mark E. Coleman, producer/director, "Holy Stones," a 40-minute videotape documentary on the Newark stones, 1999. Interviews with Midge Derby of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Bradley T. Lepper, and J. Huston McCulloch. Available inexpensively from Coleman at magsnmark@juno.com.
David A. Deal, "The Ohio Decalog: A Case of Fraudulent Archaeology," Ancient American Issue # 11 [Jan/Feb 1996], pp. 10- 19.
David A. Deal and James S. Trimm, "Ohio Decalog is Ancient Arm Phylactery," Ancient American Vol. 3, Issue # 13 [May/June 1996], pp. 25- 27.
Cyrus H. Gordon, "Diffusion of Near East Culture in Antiquity and in Byzantine Times," Orient vol. 30-31 (1995): 69-81.
Jeffrey A. Heck, producer/director, "The Mystery of the Newark Holy Stones," a professionally-made 23 minute video with re-enacted discoveries, interviews pro and con with Robert Alrutz, Bradley T. Lepper and J. Huston McCulloch, and computer-generated disassembly of the Great Stone Stack. $14.95 + $5.00 S&H from NaJor Productions at najor@tcon.net or 1-888-823-2881, or from Video Media Services at their website or at 1-800-469-8273.
Yitzhak Magen, "Ancient Israel's Stone Age: Purity in Second Temple Times," Biblical Archaeology Review, Sept./Oct. 1998, pp. 46-52.
J. Huston McCulloch, "The Newark Hebrew Stones: Wyrick's Letter to Joseph Henry," Midwest Epigraphic Journal Vol. 6 (1989), pp. 5-10. Click here to view.
____________, "The Newark, Ohio Inscribed Head -- A New Translation," Epigraphic Society Occasional Papers vol. 19 (1990): 75-80. Online PDF.
____________, "An Annotated Transcription of the Ohio Decalogue Stone," Epigraphic Society Occasional Papers vol. 21 (1992): 56-71. Online PDF.
Joseph Schenck, Mysteries of the Holy Stones. Pheasant Run Publications, St. Louis, 1982.
Moshe Shamah. Judaic Seminar Vol. 2, No. 24, "Survey of Deuteronomy 6 - 11," 1995. Online at www.shamash.org/tanach/tanach/commentary/j-seminar/volume2/v2n64.
Charles Whittlesey. Archaeological Frauds: Inscriptions Attributed to the Mound Builders. Three Remarkable Forgeries. Western Reserve Historical Society Historical & Archaeological Tract #9, 1872.
Stephen Williams, Fantastic Archaeology. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pp. 167-75.
Rochelle I. Altman, "'First, ... recognize that it's a penny': Report on the 'Newark' Ritual Artifacts," The Bible and Interpretation (an online journal), Jan. 2004, at http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Altman_Newark.htm.
Bradley T. Lepper and Jeff Gill, "The Newark Holy Stones," Timeline (a publication of the Ohio Historical Society) vol. 17 no. 3 (May/June 2000): 16-25.
Jeff Gill, Bradley T. Lepper, and Meghan Marley, THE NEWARK HOLY STONES: THE HISTORY OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMEDY, Journal of Ohio Archaeology 8:1-17, 2021
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