From The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world ... ne.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?hp)):
QuoteJERUSALEM 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.
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.
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.
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Studly man.
Nice Curio! Couldn't have put it better myself.