| Show NE NEW J DISCOVERIES REVEAL l S SERPENT WORSHIP t New Light Thrown on Early Religions of Palestine and on Bible Passages S erles made at Belson In Pa tine whIch the religIons of the early more Inore light on PalestIne and Incidentally on certain passages In the Old Testament were lI the revealed Ie In a report receIved by Pennsylvania museum of i University fruit Alan Rowe Howe director of Its expo tn in excavating the site engaged f f th the Biblical Among the discoveries reported was wasn i sacrifice n brick altar of of sacrificial rites described In the and more than of f Samuel objects of mud mod ed shaped cigar to he be votive e objects representing bread and cakes similar similar'S all rolls of referred to In the seventh sc S 'S 5 tC Li those chapter h pter of the report says the exI ex- ex In I 4 r cn uncovered a of tine line scarabs un and jewelry of a beautifully made bronze top II of i d mUl tary tn ry standard rd representing t the h h of and Iu suggesting the presence wes pres- ence of a r Mather of the Ihl Eg Egyptian ut at Belsan Beisan In Hon B e. e and n a of stone Slone weights tine fine fragments of painted pottery and lind other objects Of particular Interest among limon the pieces oJ of pottery found was II a howl bearing the figure of u a serpent In hIgh relief This howl which Is the example ef Cf a cult thus thus thus' far found at Is considered ot of tin usual importance In that It If re reveals III that or tile the worship of yer er lents gents whIch was prevalent In the rhE town during the reigns ns of III SeU I 1 and 11 II already nd was practiced there In the tine time of r Ill All the new discoveries were made wudE us as a result of the excavation n of two t temples belonging to the rein reign 0 III who held helel sway sway HOO 1500 n. n C. C Of one of the temples the report states Many details fOr of thIs temple are not unlike those of the temple dl der s scribed In detail by the phel Eze kid klel chapter 41 of the BOlli of J Eze Ezekiel ze kiel lel which also had the altars of sec e outside the Inner sanctuary and an altar Inside the sanctuary Indeed we must assume t that hn t there wa was not n a great Iea t III difference between I Ish temples of the type referred d to lu in Ezekiel and In III use by t the hl thenon non nonI of of Pales tithe rille both hoth In tIle the Sixth century It H t and In earlier times |
