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On a site in modern-day Israel, academics believe they’ve found the oldest Hebrew text ever discovered, with an apparent link to a scene described in the Old Testament.
A team of scholars affiliated with universities in Israel, the United States, Germany and the Czech Republic are credited with the find, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The findings were published Friday in the academic journal Heritage Science.
The text is described as a “curse tablet” — with an inscription one might expect to find in some of the darker passages of the Old Testament.
“You are cursed by the God YHW,” the text reads — using the sacred Hebrew name for God.
“You will die cursed—cursed you will surely die. Cursed you are by yhw-cursed,” the tablet reads, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.
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