July
28
/ 2013
Archaeologists in Israel have found a shard of pottery with the name of the Old Testament prophet Elisha on it, leading them to believe they have discovered his home. The pottery shard has been dated to the 9 th century BC, which would have been the time he lived, and was found in a house uncovered in Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley, just seven miles from where Elisha was born. “With only six other people by the name of Elisha known in that time for a couple of centuries on either side, we can somehow believe that either there was just the luck that this holy man was also by the name of Elisha, or this was Elisha the
