Thursday, July 17, 2008
Here is an interesting article about the discovery and translation of a stone tablet found in the area around the Dead Sea and the scholarly debate surrounding it.
The stone, which has been dubbed the 'Vision of Gabriel' or 'Hazon Gabriel' has been dated as late 1st Century BC and is stylistically apocalyptic and prophetic and contains references to the "Prince of Princes'; a probably reference to the Messiah and it even contains possible references to the resurrection "In three days, live,".
It is interesting to note that the New York Times picked up the story here and in this piece it is never mentioned that it is quite possible that it might be prophetic of Jesus Christ death and ressurrection. Instead, due to the entrenchment of naturalism as a basic, fundamental presuppossition a supernatural explanation of the tablet is never even considered.
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"If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a developing re-evaluation of both popular and scholarly views of Jesus, since it suggests that the story of his death and resurrection was not unique but part of a recognized Jewish tradition at the time."
International Herald Tribune
Really? ... why couldn't it just be a much more simple explanation? Uhhh, perhaps there was an underlying prophetic expectation that Jesus fulfilled, attested to by multiple different sources.
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