Lecture 4 - David, Solomon, THE ARK!

Lecture was pretty interesting today because I think I found out what my research paper is going to be on (I'll mention that later on). First off, we discussed the Tel Dan inscriptions. These inscriptions provided evidence that people in ancient times referred to a house of David, but this did not prove the existence of David. Scholars do not believe that David and Solomon existed, but the Tel Dan somewhat supported their existence. 

Then we had some slides of certain geographical stuff like Warren's shaft and the Gihon spring. It was nice to see the picture of shaft instead of just learning about it. When we learned about the importance of water, I prematurely decided that a paper on the importance of water to Jerusalem would be my research paper. Water helped with anointments (like for Solomon) and is a device used to show some royalty. The little kid in me jumped and screamed when I saw Indy's Ark. I'm pretty sure there isn't another picture of the Ark that would be fitting (unless it was actually a picture of the Ark). The idea that it can be referred to an idol sounded very interesting. Learning about the Ark was very exciting because I love Raiders (Last Crusade > Raiders > ToD > Crystal Skull) and the story of Uzzah was somewhat sad. I mean Uzzah was going to die no matter what happened to the Ark. When he touched it, he got smote; but if let it fall and become opened, a bunch of womanly ghosts would've escaped and melted his face.