Saturday, October 2, 2010

Sundial Experiments in Abha, Saudi Arabia: Biblical Jerusalem was in that Vicinity






Pictures in descending order: 7.30 am shadow is over yellow stick (pic 1)
and next moves clockwise. At 9.25 am (pic 2)and 10.30 am
(pic 3),and last 11.20 am(pic 4)the shadow is small and back over the yellow stick to cross counter-clockwise and reduces to null at noon and grow opposite at noon and again grow and move back clockwise 10 degrees and on counterclockwise.

Dr. Nurdin al-Mustaqim has conducted an experiment twice on 21 &23 June 2010, which is the summer solstice, in the city of Abha in Asir, Saudi Arabia (18° 12' 59" N / 42° 30' 19" E ), to demonstrate the point made by Mr. Anthony Lias in the postscript to the second edition of my book The Historicity of Biblical Israel…, and has kindly reported to me the following supplemented by pictures above , which are from 23 June which happen to be the clearest:

Dr. al-Mustaqim:
I CAN SWEAR AND GUARANTEE THAT SINCE 10:30AM WHEN I STARTED TO MAKE REGULAR OBSERVATION (21 JUNE) THE SUN WAS GOING COUNTER-COCKWISE FOR A FULL 180 DEGREES UNTIL 2:00 PM AND AFTER THAT IT HAD GONE BACK IN THE OPPOSITE WAY CLOCKWISE FOR 20 DEGREES AT MY LAST READING OF 3:30pm. SOME PERIOD WAS UNREADABLE DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER. I GUESS THIS WILL PROVE THE POINT ANYWAY AND I KEEP LOOKING TO SUNSET AND MAY REPEAT IT IN FOLLOWING DAYS.
WELL, I WANT TO SAY FOR THE RECORD THAT I PERFORMED THE SUNDIAL EXPERIMENT ON 21 TO 23 JUNE 2010 HERE IN ABHA,THE HEARTLAND OF ASIR, AND MY EYES AND THE PICTURES TAKEN CONFIRM THE REVERSE MOTION TWICE IN THE DAY BY WHAT I THOUGHT 20 DEGREES WITHOUT EVER SEEING THESE COMMENTS BEFORE. IF IT IS 10 DEGREES THEN LET IT BE 10, AS IT CAN BE MEASURED OR POSTED FOR ALL BY DR.SALIBI. TO ME IT IS A GREAT STEP FORWARD FOR MANKIND AND HISTORY THAT HIS DISCOVERY ABOUT BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY MUST BE TAKEN AS WORKING BASIS WITH ALL THAT GOES WITH IT.
MAY I THEN ADD THAT THIS SHOWS THE HIGH LEVEL OF ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE AT THE TIME OF KING AHAZ/EZEKIAH AND THIS IS THE TESTIMONY OF THEIR SCIENCE WHICH THEY HAVE WANTED TO PASS ON TO US OVER TIME BY THEIR RECORDING THE THORAT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS SO TRUTH WOULD REMAIN UNTIL US.WE MUST THANK KING AHAZ FOREMOST AS HE IS WITH US NOW.IT IS LIKE A GPS SATELLITE POSITIONING WHICH WILL ENABLE ONE TO FIND A POSITION ANYWHERE,ANYTIME . FOR THOSE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT LACK OF ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND ARE ASKING US TO PRODUCE KING DAVID/DAUD'S DRIVER'S LICENSE FROM THE GROUND BEFORE THEY WOULD BELIEVE AND NOT REMAIN IN THEIR OWN FAIRY TALES,I SAY THIS IS ASTRONOMICAL ARCHEOLOGY IN FULL SWING,WHAT CAN THEY PRODUCE?
KS: I owe a great debt of gratitude to Dr. Nur who spent three days in Abha observing the movement of the shadow of what stood for the gnomon of a sundial. By means of this experiment, he demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that the astronomical event occurring in Old Testament Jerusalem, as reported in Isaiah 38:7,8 and 2 Kings 20:18-12 and explained by Mr. Anthony Lias in terms of a 'Jerusalem' located in Asir rather in Palestine, is the sort of astronomical event that occurs regularly in the tropical land of Asir, twice a day, during the period of the summer solstice. The same event cannot possibly occur at any time of year in a Jerusalem located in Palestine, well within the temperate zone.

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    Rana said...
    very interesting. how come these discoveries haven't changed the face of history yet??
    July 27, 2010 1:35 AM
    Delphine said...
    Dr. Salibi,

    With this experiment, you are now on solid grounds, and your hypothesis is finally validated. You will now need to explain the experiment in more simple terms, understandable to lay reader, with reference to the original text in the Bible, and perhaps repeat the experiment with better pictures to display.
    July 31, 2010 7:19 PM
    MK said...
    This is very exciting. Dr. Salibi do reply to my emails when you have time.
    August 3, 2010 8:43 PM
    Marcelo Graham Neill said...
    Hello Mr Salibi. I have found your theory of the Bible coming from Arabia in a book of Erich von Daniken and only now i can re-discovered it. It's really revolutionary. Well constructed and better argumented. I have only a doubt about the real nature of the "jordan". I think that, correct me if i am wrong, you state that in fact the jordan mentioned in the bible refers to the mountains in west arabia and not to the river in Palestine.
    But in the book of Joshua 3:8 to 17 I find that the text refers specifically to "waters" and other things that unconfoundly relates to a river. Could it be a mistranslation or and adittion made later by the scribes?
    Thank you vey much in advance,
    Marcelo from Argentina
    August 24, 2010 3:01 PM
    Aziz said...
    Dear Mr. Salibi,

    I had the opportunity of reading your books about the biblical land since quite a time now, and I have been a staunch believer in you theories about the subject, including what you suggested about Jesus. Your works and writings shall go in history as some of the greatest of its time.
    I do not want to comment on this subject. I have a different thing to ask you. It is about Zion (Sion). I do not know if you have tackled this subject before, but could the biblical Zion (Sion) had been the city or the area of (Say'oon - سيئون)in Hadramout, which in the translation of the Bible to Greek and then to other languages became (Sion) then (Zion).
    August 29, 2010 9:38 AM
    Kamal Salibi said...
    To Marcelo Graham Neill:
    The passage you refer to, in translation from the Biblical Hebrew, does seem to indicate that it refers to the waters of a river. What it does speak of, however, is waters (BH mayim). Suffice it to say, here, that the "mayim" (waters) of the yarden would, to my mind refer to the innumerable gullies that interrupt the course of the West-Arabian Esacarpment (ha-yyarden)between the Taif Highlands and the northern borders of the Yemen, which appear virtually as waterfalls. For details, see my book, The Historicity of Biblical Israel 1998, second edition 2010; the Jordan Question, pp.220-230.
    September 2, 2010 10:47 AM
    Kamal Salibi said...
    To Mr. Aziz :
    Linguistically, the Si'un in Hadramut can readily be Zion, had it not been that the coordinates given to Zion in the Hebrew Bible are different. the Zion which was the City of David, and subsequently the capital of Solomon and the kings of Judah who succeeded him, was located in mountain heights of Qa`wat Siyan, in the immediate neighbourhood of "Jerusalem": the heights of Rijal Alma`, immediately south of the heights surrounding the present city of Abha. "Jerusalem" was adjacent to this Zion in the direction of the north. At least, so I contend. Check the Google world maps, if you are good as this kind of exercise.
    September 2, 2010 11:05 AM
    Kamal Salibi said...
    To Mr. Aziz:
    For more about Zion/the City of David and Jerusalem, see the third (geographical) part of the second edition of my book "The Historicity of Biblical Israel: Studies in 1&2 Samuel," Beirut, Dar Nelson, 2010.
    September 4, 2010 9:14 AM

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  2. Dear Dr. kamal Salibi

    check this Article in today Saudi news paper about finding and Egyptian hieroglyphs drawing in Saudi Arabia it might help your research

    http://www.alriyadh.com/2010/11/08/article575381.html

    and finally I want to say that even thou I'm not a believer in your theory i keep an open mind to it and still I like your work and I think that your theory is interesting and important for us to understand and know the real truth

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