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What would you think if I told you that there was another person who rose from the dead several years before Christ for the Salvation of Mankind and whose existence was known only to a few joos and that this resurrection was a link between Christianity and Judaism and/or shows that the Resurrection of Our Lord was a myth? Yes, you’d say that you always knew that old Bathfire was mad!
Well, it’s happened! And what’s more these so-called experts have concluded that the Resurrection, which is God’s Word and the whole tenet of Christianity, was based upon “Gabriel’s Vision of Revelation” Before you read it, remember that this “tablet” was written by some ancient joo, who probably had his own agenda and that half the words are missing and that the person doing the study is also a joo. (Will they never accept responsibility for the Temporary Death of Jesus? Can they not simply accept that Jesus was both God and the Son of God? Must they always go around inventing excuses?)
The JooYork Times reports it here and some Catlick anti-christ rubbish reports it here (I assume both will be wanting to make money out of it.)
Well, it’s happened! And what’s more these so-called experts have concluded that the Resurrection, which is God’s Word and the whole tenet of Christianity, was based upon “Gabriel’s Vision of Revelation” Before you read it, remember that this “tablet” was written by some ancient joo, who probably had his own agenda and that half the words are missing and that the person doing the study is also a joo. (Will they never accept responsibility for the Temporary Death of Jesus? Can they not simply accept that Jesus was both God and the Son of God? Must they always go around inventing excuses?)
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 three days becomes a motif developed before Jesus, which runs contrary to nearly all scholarship. What happens in the New Testament was adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story.”
Several participants of the conference accused him of using the tablet to rehash a theory that he had presented in his 2002 book, The Messiah Before Jesus. Moshe Bar-Asher, president of the Academy of Hebrew Language, said that he would publish his own paper on the tablet in coming months that would take into account possible variations in the text.
Professor Knohl said he was aware that the tablet could upset Christians. For some the stone confirms Christianity’s roots in Jewish tradition while others feel that the tablet discredits the Resurrection as a mere reproduction of an ancient fable.
The owner of the tablet, David Jeselsohn, a Swiss-Israeli collector and archaeologist, said that he was excited by Professor Knohl’s interpretation, though he was not entirely convinced by it. “I am more cautious than Knohl,” he said. “Some people say it may take away from the uniqueness of Jesus’s Resurrection but I believe it gives credibility to the story that the followers were expecting a Messiah.”
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 three days becomes a motif developed before Jesus, which runs contrary to nearly all scholarship. What happens in the New Testament was adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story.”
Several participants of the conference accused him of using the tablet to rehash a theory that he had presented in his 2002 book, The Messiah Before Jesus. Moshe Bar-Asher, president of the Academy of Hebrew Language, said that he would publish his own paper on the tablet in coming months that would take into account possible variations in the text.
Professor Knohl said he was aware that the tablet could upset Christians. For some the stone confirms Christianity’s roots in Jewish tradition while others feel that the tablet discredits the Resurrection as a mere reproduction of an ancient fable.
The owner of the tablet, David Jeselsohn, a Swiss-Israeli collector and archaeologist, said that he was excited by Professor Knohl’s interpretation, though he was not entirely convinced by it. “I am more cautious than Knohl,” he said. “Some people say it may take away from the uniqueness of Jesus’s Resurrection but I believe it gives credibility to the story that the followers were expecting a Messiah.”
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