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Dead Sea tablet 'casts doubt' on death and resurrection of Jesus
The Times of London ^ | July 9, 2008 | Sheera Frenkel

Posted on 07/09/2008 1:56:21 PM PDT by americanophile

The death and resurrection of Christ has been called into question by a radical new interpretation of a tablet found on the eastern bank of the Dead Sea. The three-foot stone tablet appears to refer to a Messiah who rises from the grave three days after his death - even though it was written decades before the birth of Jesus. The ink is badly faded on much of the tablet, known as Gabriel’s Vision of Revelation, which was written rather than engraved in the 1st century BC. This has led some experts to claim that the inscription has been overinterpreted. A previous paper published by the scholars Ada Yardeni and Binyamin Elitzur concluded that the most controversial lines were indecipherable. Israel Knohl, a biblical studies professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, argued yesterday that line 80 of the text revealed Gabriel telling an historic Jewish rebel named Simon, who was killed by the Romans four years before the birth of Christ: “In three days you shall live, I, Gabriel, command you.” Professor Knohl contends that the tablet proves that messianic followers possessed the paradigm of their leader rising from the grave before Jesus was born. He said that the text “could be the missing link between Judaism and Christianity in so far as it roots the Christian belief in the resurrection of the Messiah in Jewish tradition”. Professor Knohl defended his theory at a conference at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem marking 60 years since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He said that New Testament writers could have adapted a widely held messianic story in Judaism to Jesus and his followers. “Resurrection after

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: deadseascrolls; epigraphyandlanguage; gabrielsrevelation; godsgravesglyphs; jesus; letshavejerusalem; ressurection; tablet
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To: americanophile

The only thing new here seems to be the citation for “three days.”

I don’t recall that being in the Old Testament.

Scholarly corrections on that point are welcome if I am mistaken.


21 posted on 07/09/2008 2:07:40 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: americanophile

I’ll bet these are some of the same folks that stay up late nights figuring out how to “prove” the book of Isaiah was written hundreds of years after Isaiah was dead because it’s “clear that the author had prior knowledge of the events which it predicts, therefore, he must have written AFTER the events”.

For some people there is no such thing as circular reasoning as long as you are “disproving” something you don’t want to believe.


22 posted on 07/09/2008 2:08:36 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: americanophile
Heh.

You've got to hand it to these reporters. They even solved the issue before Dan Brown came up with a new earth shattering novel..........

23 posted on 07/09/2008 2:10:09 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: ninergold3
Jesus was a “trouble maker.” He was a great Jew, but created a lot of problems between the Jewish sects and the Romans. If you want an example, he denigrated the money lenders at the Temple, chastising them for dealing with earthly affairs. The truth is that the money lenders facilitated Jews who came from different locations to pay for their sacrifices at the temple.

Additionlly. the communities at Qumran were waiting for the Messiah—but the name of Jesus of Nazarath is NEVER nemtioned.

Jesus was not the Messiah. (How about Menacham Schemsin?)

24 posted on 07/09/2008 2:10:39 PM PDT by gallaxyglue (Have we lost our civilization as we know it?)
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To: americanophile

Such reports shake what little faith I had - in journalists.


25 posted on 07/09/2008 2:10:55 PM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: kjo

Agreed. I don’t see how it casts doubt either...


26 posted on 07/09/2008 2:11:53 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: americanophile

bookmark


27 posted on 07/09/2008 2:12:13 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: americanophile
Somebody notify the Pope.

The house of cards has fallen.

:^P

28 posted on 07/09/2008 2:13:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: americanophile

Does the tablet confirm the Da Vinci Code and the Gospel of Judas?


29 posted on 07/09/2008 2:13:52 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: B-Chan

Damn, I need a new keyboard and monitor after I spit my soda when I read that! LOL


30 posted on 07/09/2008 2:14:15 PM PDT by Hatheos
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To: Ron Jeremy
I am not quite sure what you're getting at but if the numerous books of the Bible prophecy of Jesus, why would one artifact cancel or be more important than those just because it's different.
31 posted on 07/09/2008 2:16:03 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: americanophile

I suppose that it is too much to ask that these “intellectual” critics to consider the obvious likelihood that the recorders of the New Testament merely recorded events as they happened — without following some trumped-up, mythical “model”...


32 posted on 07/09/2008 2:18:27 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: americanophile

Bull$#!t !!

33 posted on 07/09/2008 2:19:26 PM PDT by airborne (End the "open primary" system now!!! Only Republicans should vote in Republican primaries!)
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To: americanophile

Of course the prophecy was known; why was Pilate asked to put a guard at the tomb?


34 posted on 07/09/2008 2:21:57 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: zeestephen
Every few years we get articles proclaiming that Jesus' existence or his crucifixion and especially his resurrection have been 'called into question' by some artifact or other. The purported 'evidence' is usually some 'scholars' opinion on some illegible writing on something or other from the ancient world. Most are quickly exposed as a hoax, totally unsubstantiated or simply far too inconclusive to 'prove' anything (like this one) and quickly forgotten, except to the more active atheists prowling the internet who thrive on anything that helps them sustain their unbelief.

Much ado about very little, as usual.

35 posted on 07/09/2008 2:22:04 PM PDT by Jim Scott (Time Heals)
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To: americanophile
...the most controversial lines were indecipherable.

So that makes it perfecty clear.

36 posted on 07/09/2008 2:23:24 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: ninergold3
...even though it was written decades before the BIRTH of Jesus.... I think that sums it up, doesn't it?
37 posted on 07/09/2008 2:24:36 PM PDT by nikos1121 (The first black president of the US should be at least a "Jackie Robinson.")
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To: normy
I am not quite sure what you're getting at but if the numerous books of the Bible prophecy of Jesus, why would one artifact cancel or be more important than those just because it's different.

It wouldn't. First, I don't even think this artifact negates what is in the bible.. I think it supports it. But, let's say this artifact does run counter to the bible. I would consider it as relavent in an overall analysis. You seem to have th attitude that you will ignore anything and everything that doesn't fit to a pre-conceived view.. well, that is what I thought you were saying.. perhaps I misinterpreted what you were saying. carry on.

38 posted on 07/09/2008 2:25:28 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: B-Chan

LOL!!!


39 posted on 07/09/2008 2:26:44 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: americanophile

It was only found years ago. Sigh... let me dig through discs to find the stuff from the biblioarchs.


40 posted on 07/09/2008 2:26:54 PM PDT by AliVeritas (If you don't love this country, tear up your passport, leave and live under a dictator.)
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