Current Events Articles: January 2013

Police apprehended four people in Adana, Turkey who were attempting to sell an incredibly old leather Torah. Four suspects were released by a local court pending trial and the leather Torah was sent to Ankara for analysis following the operation.

For more, visit: Times of Israel (off site link)

A massive foot-print can be found at Bedhat esh-Sha’ab, located in the Jordan Valley some two miles northwest of the Damiyeh Bridge across the River Jordan. It is thought by some that this site is the Gilgal where Israel initially encamped after crossing the Jordan and treading upon the land of promise for the first time.

Read more about this interesting discovery at: ICEJ (off-site link).

Following are some of the most exciting discoveries announced in the past year, taken from the news digests of Artifax magazine, and reported on The Book & The Spade radio program.

Read more on Continental News (off site link)

According to a study published January 10th in Nature by geneticists from 4 universities including Harvard, “Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants.”

For more visit: Creation-Evolution Headlines (off site link)

One of the investigation’s conclusions was that the human genome began to rapidly diversify not more than 5,000 years ago. This observation closely agrees with a biblical timeline of post-flood human diversification.

For more, visit: Creation Revolution (off site link).

The finds, dated to the early divided monarchy, including pottery figurines of men and horses, provide rare testimony of a ritual cult in the Jerusalem region at the beginning of the period of the divided monarchy.

Read more at: Israel Antiquities Authority (off site link)

Read more at BBC News (offsite link).