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Monday, May 10, 2004

I saw an image on the Web of a monument very much like the FOE monuments, but said to be much older:

http://www.evansville.net/user/boneyard/posey.htm

It described as follows:
"Posey County Courthouse 10 Commandments
This monument of the 10 Commandments has sat on the northwest corner of the Posey County, Indiana Courthouse for nearly a century."

The tablets on it seem to have roman numerals rather than Hebrew. Today, I wrote to boneyard@evansville.net to learn more.
Yesterday night I happened upon this comment made by Harry S Truman on November 16, 1952, on laying the cornerstone of Washington Hebrew Congregation's new temple in Washington, DC:

“On this cornerstone we see the two tablets of stone, with the Ten Commandments in their ancient Hebrew form, a replica of the tablets Moses brought down from Mount Sinai."

I sent an e-mail message to bfogg@whctemple.org and asked if the lettering referred to above is actually ancient Hebrew or the Hebrew found in a sefer Torah.

Yesterday, while awaiting an image from Main Line Reform Temple Beth Elohim in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, I happended to be shown as I saw a picture taken at a Bat Mitzvah there about seven years ago. In the background one can see the ark. It turns out the Hebrew of their Ten Commandments is the square Hebrew, rather than the more ancient paleo-Hebrew. Oh well...


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