Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

[SolInvictusMithras]

From The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world ... ne.html?hp):

JERUSALEM â€" A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.

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.

The tablet, probably found near the Dead Sea in Jordan according to some scholars who have studied it, is a rare example of a stone with ink writings from that era â€" in essence, a Dead Sea Scroll on stone.

[Will]

The myth which eventually became Jesus existed long before the supposed birth. Mark adapted many myths into his account, which was copied and there you have the new Testament.

I see this tablet as further evidence.

[myleviathan]

Excellent find. It's pretty much a no-brainer that the Christian myth came from Mediterranean stories about virgin born god-men, and applied it to a semi-historical figure named Jesus. It's good to see some (more) archaeological evidence.

[curiosityandthecat]

[EvolutionCalling]

HAHAHAHA.

[afreethinker30]

Studly man.

[susangail]

Nice Curio! Couldn't have put it better myself.