why did the bronze findings in the caves where the jews hid have a roman sea symbol on it?
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Because the Romans conquered Judea and took it from the Greeks. Many Romans settled there and brought their household goods with them. Lots of Jewish merchants traded with Roman merchants and inevitably some of those goods ended up in Jewish hands. When they went into hiding, they brought their goods with them. And there they lay, waiting for an archaeologist to dig them up.
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Wow, I really wondered about it too, so a couple of years ago, I did some research on it, and I came up with three answers that were repeated over and over. I guess to know for sure which one is right, or if any of them are right, you would have to know the person who is placing the stone, and ask them. Below are the three things I found out:\n\n1. In Judaism, placing stones was traditionally a way to help keep the spirit of the dead in the grave. This appears to have been an Eastern European superstition that spread to the Jewish people who lived in that area of the world. It was thought that the spirits of even very good people stuck around to see their bodies buried, and might stay near the grave for a day or two. The stone was a symbolic lid, meant to keep the spirit in, and evil out, so that the spirit was not taken over by an evil force. The great majority of Jewish people in the US are of Eastern European origin, having emigrated here either before or after WWII,  so that tradition is very strong in American Jewish culture. \n\n2. The stone sometimes symbolizes a cairn. Cairns are little, man-made piles of rocks used to mark the site where someone is buried. Cairns were traditional in Scotland and parts of Northern England. Placing one rock represents a cairn, or someone might build a small cairn as a memorial to the dead, such as on the side of the road where a person had been killed in an accident. Cairns were also used to mark a place that had significance, such as a path or a historical site. If I remember correctly, some other cultures marked burial sites with piles of stones, but I am afraid I only remember the Scottish and English for sure, as that is where the word "cairn" comes from.\n\n3. In most cultures, it is considered respectful to bring something to the grave of a deceased person to bear witness to the fact that you were there and that you acknowledge their death and still remember them. For example, in the US, the most common thing that people bring to graves is flowers, even if the person buried there has been gone for a long time. However, any object will do. Sometimes, that object happens to be a stone. The object itself is not considered as important as the act of actually placing it.\n\nIt took me a long time to find out the little bit I told you about above. I see it all the time, but it was hard to find any concrete reasons why people carry on this tradition. I hope my information answers at least part of your question.
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I believe the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Israel.
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b/c he was a Jew and they were darker in those days!
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I just learned that yesterday. In Bible Study Im learning about other religions and we were going over Hinduism. The symbol welcomes auspiciousness and drives out evil.\nI didn't know that only because of what the nazis did, although in hitlers mind he prob thought that it would help him drive out the jews.
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Dead Sea Scrolls—The Prized Find\n\nABOUT 15 miles [24 km] southeast of Jerusalem, Wadi En-Nar, a desolate, dry watercourse runs eastward down to the Dead Sea. A broken line of cliffs stretches behind the shoreline plain. On this plain, in the hot days and contrasting cold nights of autumn, the Ta‘amireh Bedouin tend their flocks of sheep and goats.\n\nIn the year 1947, while tending the flocks, a young Bedouin shepherd threw a stone into a small opening in the crumbling face of a cliff. He was startled by the noise it caused, apparently by shattering an earthenware jar. He fled in fear, but two days later he returned and climbed some 300 feet [100 m] to enter through a larger, higher opening. As his eyes became accustomed to the darkness, he saw ten tall jars lining the walls of the cave, and a mass of broken pottery amid fallen rocks littered the floor.\n\nMost of the jars were empty, but one contained three scrolls, two of which were cloth-covered. He took the manuscripts back to the Bedouin camp and left them there for about a month, hanging in a bag on a tent pole. Finally, some Bedouin took the scrolls to Bethlehem to see how much they would fetch. The Bedouin were unceremoniously turned away from one monastery, being told that the scrolls were of no value whatever. Another dealer said that the manuscripts had no archaeological merit, and he suspected that they had been stolen from a Jewish synagogue. How wrong he was! Eventually, with a Syrian cobbler acting as broker, their worth was rightfully established. Soon, other manuscripts were evaluated.\n\nSome of these ancient writings opened up a whole new insight into the activity of Jewish religious groups about the time of Christ. But it was a Bible manuscript of Isaiah’s prophecy that excited the world. Why?\n\nThe Great Prize\n\nThe newly discovered scroll of Isaiah was originally about 25 feet [7.5 m] long. It was made up of 17 sheets of carefully prepared animal skin, nearly as refined as parchment. Composed in 54 columns averaging 30 lines each, it had been carefully ruled. On these lines the skilled penman had placed the letters of the text, written in paragraphs.—See photograph.\n\nThe scroll had not been rolled around sticks, and it was much darker in the center where many hands had held it for reading. It was well-worn, with skillful repairs and reinforcements in evidence. Its fine preservation was due to its having been carefully sealed in a jar. How valuable is it to the Bible scholar, and, by extension, to all of us?\n\nThis manuscript of the prophet Isaiah is some one thousand years older than any other surviving copy, yet its contents are not greatly different. Said Professor Millar Burrows, the editor of the text that was published in 1950: “The text of Isaiah in this manuscript, with significant differences in spelling and grammar and many variant readings of more or less interest and importance, is substantially that presented considerably later in the MT [Masoretic Hebrew Text].” Also noteworthy is its consistent use of the Tetragrammaton, ????, God’s holy name, Jehovah, in Hebrew.\n\nOther Valuable Manuscripts\n\nThe divine name also appears in another manuscript from this same cave, now known as Cave 1. In a commentary on the book of Habakkuk, the Tetragrammaton appears four times in paleo-Hebrew letters, an older style that contrasts with the more familiar square Hebrew lettering.—See the footnote to Habakkuk 1:9, Reference Bible.\n\nThe cave yielded portions of another Isaiah scroll, along with leather fragments from the Bible book of Daniel. One of these preserves the change from Hebrew to Aramaic at Daniel 2:4, just as found in manuscripts of a thousand years later.\n\nSmall parts of the scrolls that are well preserved are now exhibited in Jerusalem, in the museum known as the Shrine of the Book. This museum is underground, so as you visit there, you have the impression of entering a cave. The upper part of the museum is in
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Jews wore patch shaped like the Star of David\nJehovah's Witnesses wore patch shaped in a triangle purple in color.
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It was something to do with Germany, in WW2.  I believe it was the official name for the law that made the Jews leave German territories.
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Ancient Israel\n\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GRAPHICS/ATLASES/ANISRAEL.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/HEBREWS/ANISRMAP.HTM&h=515&w=310&sz=31&tbnid=TscmXVW_UWhvTM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=77&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dancient%2Bisrael%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN\n\n\nSouthwest Asia and other maps\nhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html
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When Jesus was crucified the Roman soldiers put up a sign with the initials which stood for "Jesus Christ King of the Jews."  The letters spelled fish.  \n\nWhen it was illegal to be a Christian in Rome, the Christians would use the fish rather than the obvious cross to let other Christians know that they were Christians to avoid persecution.
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the jews know it...\na little complicated to explain.\nbut there definetly IS a reason and it's beautiful!!!
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New testement gave the allowance.  This was used also to show that unclean things had now become clean,  Allowing the Gentiles to become Christian.\n(although they were actually still Jewish at that time but Christian Jews)
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yeah, he must be talking about the swastika.  well, it was originally a solar symbol that was seen as something quite fortunate.  however, being perverted by the nazis, i feel it's been tainted.  now, don't be afraid when you see this symbol used in ancient lands, for their useage preceeded the nazi's blasphemous and atrocious acts.\n\ni found a nice site for you regarding that symbol.  http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm  i haven't gone through the whole site, but as far as i can tell, it is NOT of a racist nature.
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http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ba9712bp.htm\n\nCheck out the link above. What I have come to believe like many others from studying the subject of bronze age natural disastors is that often stories and myths tie very well with geological events, such as tsunamis (parting of the sea for moeses and the jews) earthquakes etc. Stories in the bible can be traced back to earlier myths which existed before the bible was written. I would not beleive hat the bible describes word for word as throught he ages, stories have been altered to provide an exaggerated picture of true events to capture the imagination of the reader/pupil. How many times have you exaggerated a story just so it sounds better to the listner? Now apply 2000years to that and you know what I mean. Anyway the above link is an interesting read.
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The fish symbol was a secret code of the early Christians. The ichthys also may be an acronym of the Greek letters ΙΧΘΥΣ (Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma) to the statement of Christian faith "᾿Ιησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σωτήρ" (Iēsous Christos Theou Huios Sōtēr: "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior").
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That's complete crap.\n\nYou won't find any such information in the Bible.\n\nSeriously.  Ask your friend to show it to you.
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I haven't heard of anything like this. There seems to have been little contemporary references to Jesus in Roman sources so such a letter would be priceless. \n\nHowever, Dennis Lemon of Gay News was convicted of blasphemy in 1978 in Britain for printing a letter from a Roman centurion claiming that he loved Jesus. There is no basis for thinking that such a document existed. For a start, many centurions were illiterate.