Skeptic Moment: Bible Written Earlier?

According to Yahoo via LiveScience.com, a piece of pottery may suggest that parts of the bible could be centuries older that originally thought. Ignoring the fact that the ages of biblical texts have almost nothing to do with their veracity, let's explore!

A few things struck me about the article, suggesting many reasons to be suspicious of this finding until more information is available.

The excavations were performed by archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gershon Galil, the professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, deciphered the writings after not initially being able to clarify if the language was Hebrew or another regional language. Good old religiously based collegiate institutions finding artifacts they claim prove their case. How convenient. Okay, okay...I am being snarky but I honestly value their findings a bit less than if a group without so much baggage had came to the same conclusion.

"It [the piece of pottery] uses verbs that were characteristic of Hebrew, such as asah ('did') and avad ('worked'), which were rarely used in other regional languages," Galil said. "Particular words that appear in the text, such as almanah ('widow') are specific to Hebrew and are written differently in other local languages."

Okay...so it is in Hebrew. And...? The five phrases are missing letters but appear to be making social statements about treating disenfranchised groups such as slaves, widows, and orphans. They believe it translates to:

1' you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].
2' Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3' [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4' the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5' Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.

Confusing, muddled, judgmental, and contradictory, with a moment of niceties...
Sounds like biblical commands to me! But...none of these stanzas are actually copied from the bible though they do seem similar to three scriptures.

Regardless, doesn't make the Bible anymore realistic or morally authoritative than before. In the end, I find it lacking.