Found: Slab With Hebrew Inscription Where Bible Says Jesus Performed "Miracle Of The Swine"

Breitbart.com ^ | December 17, 2015 | Deborah Danan

[TexasRepublic]

Buy your religious action figures here! (batteries not included)

[Rashputin]

Over the decades I've been alive I've figured out that how something, especially about Christ or Christianity, is dated depends more on the predisposition of whoever finds it than on science.

Just look at the Shroud of Turin. Every single one of the rules for testing the fabric was violated and it had to be deliberate. Add that to the fact that the sample was taken from an area that was a known repair rather than nearby, obviously original, fabric, and you can see just how much you can trust the dates assigned to things.

Wait a decade or two and see what the date on this item is then. Someone will have done a Masters Thesis on how wrong the 1,500 year date is. They'll either insist that it's older or that someone bought it when the last W. T. Grant store went under.

IMHo, if it's in Hebrew it's at least from the time of Constantine, maybe older.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks dware.

[xzins]

Now that’s funny

[21twelve]

“Hebrew was a liturgical language...”

Could Hebrew have been used to mark something Holy? And might have been a place of worship? Of course then I would think it would be in whatever language used by the Christians in the area.

[JimRed]

Can you imagine going to the local staples store and buying a ream of marble for your printer?

Or a liter of liquid marble for your 3D printer?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Deviled Ham.

Still really good with a little horseradish on crackers.

[Bob434]

it’s the marble liquid that gets ya- the printers are dirt cheap- but the marble liquid- Jimminy!

[Rebelbase]

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[aMorePerfectUnion]

“LOL! You win the internet today!”

You can do that???

:-)

[mumblypeg]

Story is misleading. I had to read it twice.
Apparently this 1500 year old slab was found at a site near where, according to an even older oral tradition, Jesus drove the demons into the swine.
The slab itself doesn’t actually say anything about Jesus.
It just confirms that yes, Jews had lived around there for awhile.
Ergo, we might conclude that ONE of those Jews might have been Jesus, so maybe the long-told story of the swine did actually happen there !
Additionally, the slab mentions a Mary, or Miriam-—common name.
Again, by simply name-dropping, the story’s author is manipulating the reader to assume, incorrectly, that it refers to Jesus’ mother.

[Pelham]

The spoken language of the time was Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. But Hebrew would have still have been a known literary language.

[cloudmountain]

The spoken language of the time was Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. But Hebrew would have still have been a known literary language.

I know.

[SkyDancer]

I’m thinking that Hebrew at the time was more for the intellect and Aramaic being the common language?

[Pelham]

At the time Greek was the intellectual language and Hebrew more of a dead language, much like we regard Latin today.

The large Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt had translated the OT into Greek (what we call the Septuagint) because Greek is what everyone was using.

Aramaic is thought to have been the everyday language.

[cloudmountain]

The four basic languages of Europe were Latin, Greek, German and Celtic (central Europe). The latter group of people were pushed out of Europe towards the west.
THEY ended up in Ireland and that language can still be heard today on the Emerald Isle. It's like nothing you've ever heard.

We had a guide through Ireland. He father was Irish and his mother was Chinese. WEIRD lookin' cat. Two Irish women commented on him and hadn't a CLUE that he understood them.
He answered them in Gaelic and they almost fainted from shock. :o)
Ya never know.