Re: Ancient scripts defrock major tenet of Christian Bible!
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- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:07:49 GMT
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 01:17:08 -0700 (PDT), toci <gina39d@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Jul 6, 11:46 pm, chatnoir <wolfbat3...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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The ancient scripts that predate - and might rewrite - the Bible
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:47 AM on 07th July 2008
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A fresh interpretation of a stone tablet dated to the decades before
Jesus's birth could undermine some fundamentals of the Christian
faith, experts claim.
The tablet, which is similar in style to the Dead Sea Scrolls, is said
to predict that a messiah would rise from the dead within three days.
The partially-deciphered Ancient Hebrew text had seemed to contain a
vision of the apocalypse as told by the Angel Gabriel.
But a leading scholar says it confirms his theory that some Jewish
sects before Christ believed a messiah would save them - but not
before he was killed and brought back to life after three days.
Israel Knohl, Professor of Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, says one line of the text tells the 'prince of princes'
slain by the evil government, 'in three days you shall live'.
He suggests the story refers to the death of a Jewish prince called
Simon who led a revolt against King Herod.
Daniel Boyarin, of the University of California at Berkeley, said that
there was growing evidence suggesting that Jesus could be best
understood through a close reading of the Jewish history of his day.
'Some Christians will find it shocking - a challenge to the
uniqueness of their theology, while others will be comforted by the
idea of it being a traditional part of Judaism,' he said.
But Christian scholars dispute any contention that the tablet, which
is in a private collection, could dilute the significance of Jesus's
resurrection.
Ben Witherington, of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky,
said: 'This stone certainly does not demonstrate that the Gospel
passion stories are created on the basis of this stone text.'
This has been known, and taught in seminaries, for at least fifty
years. It is even part of the Bible, mainly Matthew, although he was
more likely just to say "It is written" than to reference a particular
stone or papyrus. Toci
It's even maintained that Jesus supposedly rising from the
dead and showing off the nail holes in his hands to Doubting
Thomas was the fulfillment of the prophesy. Of course,
Jesus completely disappeared after that, which might not
have been what people expected from the prophesy, but
if you took him to court for that, his lawyers might have been
able to get him off. I wonder where all the 2000-year-old
people are hiding out? Jesus said that there were many
alive at his time who would not see death before He came
to establish the kingdom of god on earth. I guess, at that
age, those people don't get out much. That must be why
we never see them.
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