{"id":9455,"date":"2018-12-02T22:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2018-12-16T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:13:17","slug":"pilates-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/02\/pilates-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilate&#8217;s Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/2000-year-old-ring-engraved-with-pilate-may-have-belonged-to-notorious-ruler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Times of Israel<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">2,000-year-old \u2018Pilate\u2019 ring just might have belonged to notorious Jesus judge<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"underline\">Uncovered 50 years ago at the Herodian palace near Bethlehem, a simple copper-alloy ring is now given a good cleaning \u2014 and a second look by skeptical scholars<\/h2>\n<p>By <a title=\"Amanda Borschel-Dan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/writers\/amanda-borschel-dan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zVq-JWdyvGI\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An intriguing 2,000-year-old copper alloy ring bearing the inscription \u201cof Pilatus\u201d may be only the second artifact testifying to the historicity of the infamous Pontius Pilate. Unearthed 50 years ago, the ring was overlooked until recently, when it got a good scrub, and a second look.<\/p>\n<p>Pilate, a Roman prefect who ruled the Roman province of Judaea from circa 26\u201336 CE, is mentioned in several accounts in the New Testament, as having ordered the trial and crucifixion of Yeshua, a Second Temple-period radical preacher from the Galilee, more commonly known as Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The ring was first found among hundreds of other artifacts in 1968\u20131969 excavations directed by archaeologist Gideon Foerster, at a section of Herod\u2019s burial tomb and palace at Herodium that was used during the First Jewish Revolt (66\u201373 CE). Recently, current dig director Roi Porat asked that the engraved copper sealing ring be given a thorough laboratory cleaning and scholarly examination.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/2000-year-old-ring-engraved-with-pilate-may-have-belonged-to-notorious-ruler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Times of Israel<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Times of Israel 2,000-year-old \u2018Pilate\u2019 ring just might have belonged to notorious Jesus judge Uncovered 50 years ago at the Herodian palace near Bethlehem, a simple copper-alloy ring is now given a good cleaning \u2014 and a second look by skeptical scholars By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN An intriguing 2,000-year-old copper alloy ring bearing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}