Posted on 01/21/2021 6:21:53 AM PST by Red Badger
The inscription, “Christ born of Mary.” Photo: Tzachi Lang, Israel Antiquities Authority
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JERUSALEM, Israel – Israeli authorities excavating in the Jezreel Valley have unearthed a 1,500-year-old inscription dedicated to Jesus.
Excavators found the Greek inscription while digging in the village of et-Taiyiba. The inscription was engraved in stone in what is believed by researchers to be the remains of a Byzantine-era church.
The inscription reads: “Christ, born of Mary. This work of the most God-fearing and pious bishop [Theodo]sius and the miserable Th[omas] was built from the foundation...Whoever enters should pray for them.”
According to Dr. Leah Di-Segni, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the phrase “Christ born of Mary” was used by Christians at the time to protect against the evil eye. The evil eye is an ancient curse originating in Greece and Rome that many cultures believe will cause misfortune on unsuspecting individuals.
“The inscription greets those who enter and blesses them. It is therefore clear that the building is a church, and not a monastery: Churches greeted believers at their entrance, while monasteries tended not to do this,” explained Dr. Di-Segni.
Theodosius, whom the text refers to, was one of the first Christian bishops. Researchers say he was the regional archbishop of the metropolis of Bet She’an, to which et-Taiyiba belonged.
“This is the first evidence of the Byzantine church’s existence in the village of et-Taiyiba and it adds to other finds attesting to the activities of Christians who lived in the region,” said Dr. Walid Atrash of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
PinGGG!.......................
“the phrase “Christ born of Mary” was used by Christians at the time to protect against the evil eye. The evil eye is an ancient curse originating in Greece and Rome that many cultures believe will cause misfortune on unsuspecting individuals”
That’s interesting. We need this stone in DC.
I was just thinking the exact same thing.
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“the phrase “Christ born of Mary” was used by Christians at the time to protect against the evil eye. The evil eye is an ancient curse originating in Greece and Rome that many cultures believe will cause misfortune on unsuspecting individuals”
That’s interesting. We need this stone in DC.
Yes, indeed!
For your interest.
“Christ Born of Mary”
TY for posting this!
This should be our new greeting as we are driven underground.
“..Whoever enters should pray for them.”
But,But.....
Two weird things about this article:
1. No source for their bizarre speculation that the words “Christ” and “Mary” (in a church of all places!) was part of some superstitious ritual unrelated to Christianity. Maybe he learned that in the DaVinci Code?
2. A bishop in the 5th or 6th Century was one of the first bishops? I don’t think so. Here’s Clement writing in A.D. 95 “So preaching everywhere in country and town, they appointed their firstfruits, when they had proved them by the Spirit, to be bishops and deacons unto them that should believe.”
I can read the Greek and don’t see the phrase ‘Christ born of Mary’ on that artifact.
It’s Greek to me..............................
So, Jesus was a tagger?
It would help if they would print the Greek text for us as it is done in epigraphical publications, using lower case letters and spaces between the words.
Thanks Red Badger.
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