Ancient Irish Book found in Bog in Ireland supposed to warn of Israel Wipeout Threat

"’This is really a miracle find." - Pat Wallace, Director, National Museum of Ireland, informed AP that the "miracle" took place in Ireland. Archeologists on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, informed media that that discovery of God’s Word is most unusual.

"The discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog" has stirred the knowledgeable world.

Twenty pages. That’s how large the book is. It dates to AD 800-1000, according to Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan. "It was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries."

The book was opened to Psalm 83, the latter concerning the enemies of Israel out to annihilate the nation. How significant is it that this find occurs in the midst of this present Middle East conflict?

On Wednesday, under the title An Amazingly Timely Discovery, a writer with one Israeli news magazine devoted an entire column to the find, which he regarded as "nothing short of a phenomenon".

"I don't want to take it any further than I should, but time may show that the discovery of the Irish psalm book was a warning," he wrote.

However yesterday, before it all got out of hand, the director of the National Museum, Dr Patrick Wallace, issued a statement saying the text visible on the manuscript found in the bog does not refer to the wiping out of Israel but to the "vale of tears".

"This is part of Verse 7 of Psalm 83 in the old Latin translation of the Bible [the Vulgate] which....would have been the version used in the medieval period.

"In the much later King James version the number of the psalms is different, based on the Hebrew text and the 'vale of tears' occurs in Psalm 84.

"The text about wiping out Israel occurs in the Vulgate as Psalm 82" which equals Psalm 83 (King James version), he said.

"It is hoped that this clarification will serve comfort to anyone worried by earlier reports of the content of the text," Dr Wallace added.

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