Posted on 04/03/2011 7:07:10 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
“Maybe, they were just a bad speller.”
It’s not just a spelling error. They’ve identified the text which the Greek was copied (poorly) from, it’s a tombstone inscription from the 2nd century that is on public display in a museum in Amman, Jordan. A part of that tombstone’s text was copied, multiple times, in a nonsensical way, with one greek letter used to represent two letters (Lambda was used for both lambda and alpha in every case).
He’s dreaaaaaamy!
Thanks... he’s naughty! Stubborn male. It’s going to be a L-O-N-G year... he’s chewing his way thru the house. I don’t even put the vacuum cleaner away..I just leave it out, coz I’m going to need it...repeatedly throughout the day. ;(
It’s not just a spelling error. They’ve identified the text which the Greek was copied (poorly) from, it’s a tombstone inscription from the 2nd century that is on public display in a museum in Amman, Jordan. A part of that tombstone’s text was copied, multiple times, in a nonsensical way, with one greek letter used to represent two letters (Lambda was used for both lambda and alpha in every case).
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I was making a joke. Obviously, not a very funny one.
LOL, quite right...
IIRC, the first “photo” of Christ is embedded forever on his shroud when he rose from the dead on the 3rd day.
You’re not mistaken. The earliest Christians were Jews, like Jesus himself. Human depictions were considered blasphemous. This alone is why I suspect these items to be fake.
Fake
Well, except Paul himself converted plenty of gentiles. There were no shortage of non-Jewish early Christians and many of those early converts did take on some but not all aspects of Judaism - the Bible tells us for instance that they ate pork.
I have no idea is these things are fake or not. After reading the article I'm wondering if there are just hundreds of these little book artifacts strewn all around the area? Some are very likely fake but they may also have been based on some real ones?
I do have two problems with the original article. There are two glaring mistakes. 1st: The Bible book referenced is “Revelation” not “Revelations” and 2nd: The author is completely wrong concerning the statement about the prohibition against speaking the name of GOD in Hebrew during the time period referenced. The fact is, “There was a time when the prohibition [against the use of the divine name] was entirely unknown among the Jews . . . Neither in Egypt, nor in Babylonia, did the Jews know or keep a law prohibiting the use of God‘s name, the Tetragrammaton, in ordinary conversation or greetings. Yet, from the third century B.C.E. till the third century A.C.E. such a prohibition existed and was partly observed.”
More can be found in my own book, “The Book of GOD: For Men”
-Tov Rose
www.TovRose.com
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