{"id":27065,"date":"2012-07-08T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/ancient-mosaic-found\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T13:33:18","slug":"ancient-mosaic-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/ancient-mosaic-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient mosaic found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/an%20ancient%20Jewish%20synagoge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"an ancient Jewish synagoge.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/07\/an ancient Jewish synagoge-thumb-300x168-12107.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The finding of an ancient artifact in an area where it would not be likely and from an era when it would seem to be improbable is a wonderful thing. The Huqoq mosaic of Samson fighting the Philistines from the 5th and 6th centuries is indeed remarkable. One of the reasons finding this mosaic is important to the field of biblical archeology is that it unearths, as it were, the preconceptions of what religious life whether it was Byzantine Christianity or Judiasm and reorients previously held theories. Revision of one&#8217;s thinking can be a good thing when you face the reality in front of you. Yahoo News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ancient-mosaic-depicting-fiery-bible-story-discovered-163828071.html\">is carrying the story<\/a> from July 2, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finding of an ancient artifact in an area where it would not be likely and from an era when it would seem to be improbable is a wonderful thing. The Huqoq mosaic of Samson fighting the Philistines from the 5th and 6th centuries is indeed remarkable. One of the reasons finding this mosaic is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/ancient-mosaic-found\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancient mosaic found<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}