Famous Jews and the British Museum

You know you’ve reached your early thirties when a day spent at the British Museum, or any museum for that matter, is an exciting prospect. And yet nearly 2 and a half years into my fourth decade (yes, sorry to break it to you but your thirties are your fourth decade) I found myself walking from cabinet to cabinet enthralled by what I saw. “Why” you may ask? Because what I was gawping at is incontrovertible evidence that various parts of the Bible are true, that is, solid objective history. Not myth, not fluffy religious teaching, history. And let’s face it, for a geek like me, that’s just cool.

So what did I see? Well before I show you, we need to revise some ancient history. In fact around 4000-years of history, in a single paragraph. So sit down, buckle up, and get ready for a whistle-stop tour of Old Testament Bible history:

In the beginning God creates the world, then humans turn evil (I mean really evil), then there’s a cataclysmic flood to stop all the evil, then people multiply again, then God calls a wealthy man in Iraq called Abram to become a nomad and move to modern day Israel. Then father Abraham (note: name change) has many sons, they live in Egypt, cross the red sea, move into the promised land (Israel), live there several hundred years, split into two kingdoms: Israel (in the north) and Judah (in the south), keep rebelling against God and doing evil, and eventually get exiled: Israel to Assyria and Judah to Babylon (both in modern day Iraq). Then, 70-years later, the Babylonian empire falls to the Medes and Persians (aka Iranians), and some of Judah return to Judea. But, I hear you cry, what did you see in the museum!?

I’m glad you asked that increasingly repetitive question. I was going to write a long in depth study of what I saw, but instead I thought “Nah, let’s make a video”. So here are several hours in a museum condensed into 6 minutes and 11-seconds…

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