{"id":58208,"date":"2024-12-19T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58208"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:01:47","slug":"ten-commandments-sells-for-5-million-amid-authenticity-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/19\/ten-commandments-sells-for-5-million-amid-authenticity-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Commandments Sells for $5 Million Amid Authenticity Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at a Sotheby\u2019s auction in New York on Wednesday, despite questions surrounding its authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>The 115-pound (52-kilogram) slab, allegedly discovered in 1913 during rail line excavations in modern-day Israel, surpassed the auction house\u2019s initial estimate of $1-2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The tablet, featuring Paleo-Hebrew script and dated between 300 and 800 CE, contains only nine of the Ten Commandments, raising doubts about its origin and historical significance.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have questioned the accuracy of its claimed discovery and dating, noting that no one has verified it as the original Biblical tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these concerns, bidding quickly surged to $4.2 million, with the final sale price reaching $5 million, including fees.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Liberman Mintz, Sotheby\u2019s Judaica specialist, was involved in the auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu A stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at a Sotheby\u2019s auction in New York on Wednesday, despite questions surrounding its authenticity. The 115-pound (52-kilogram) slab, allegedly discovered in 1913 during rail line excavations in modern-day Israel, surpassed the auction house\u2019s initial estimate of $1-2 million. The tablet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58210,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58208\/revisions\/58210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}