An amazing find
A report yesterday (with thanks to Tom) tells of the incredible discovery of an ancient book of psalms in a bog in Ireland:
The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries.
“This is really a miracle find,” said Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, which has the book stored in refrigeration and facing years of painstaking analysis before being put on public display.
But even more amazingly, the book was open at Psalm 83. Here are some select verses from the psalm:
See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more.”With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you…
Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.Even Assyria has joined them
to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah
A miracle find indeed!
